Life Is Worth It
Author’s Note: Life or Death? Everyday 1,479 people die from some type of cancer; whether its leukemia or bone cancer…it’s still cancer. 3,483 people are diagnosed with cancer every day. In the book My Sister’s Keeper written by Jodi Picoult Kate is diagnosed with Leukemia. Her parents will do anything to save her. Kate’s parents decide to have another girl with the exact same embryo that Kate has to save her from dying from leukemia.
If you had a limited time to live what would u choose to do with it? Kate is a 15 year old girl who was diagnosed with leukemia when she was just a little girl. When her parents found out that she had leukemia they were devastated, I mean who wouldn’t be; finding out that your child has cancer, is like finding out by your child that your mom died; you are upset and shocked. Kate is able to deal with it, she doesn’t like having cancer but she is able to fight through it. If life gets hard don’t give up; it is worth it in the end.
If I was in Kate’s position I honestly don’t know how I would deal with it. Living with cancer for 13 years and having to live with it for the rest of my life. I would truthfully want to kill myself. I don’t know how Kate was able to deal with it for 13 years. In the end Kate dies but that is because she didn’t want to live like that anymore. I could relate to that because I wouldn’t want to live with cancer for the rest of my life. But I also cannot relate to her because I would want to at least try to fight it because if you are able to beat leukemia you would be able to live the rest of your life cancer free.
Grace Barr, is a girl that I know who had a type of skin cancer. She wasn’t going to give up on it, I knew that for sure. She fought through it, and was able to beat the skin cancer. She is now 5 years with being cancer free. I love thinking about how she fought through it and was able to beat her cancer. I don’t know anyone else who had cancer who actually fought it and beat the cancer. In Kate’s position she can’t really fight it, she feels like she should just give up because she believes that she is going to die in the end. That is true that she is going to die in the end, but everyone dies in the end.
Kate and Anna are like BFF’s; they would honestly do just about anything for one another, if my sister was sick I wouldn’t bother helping her because I know that she would get better but it would totally be different if she had cancer; because I love and care for my sister. I never want my sister to die; I don’t think that anyone would want their sister to die. If I had cancer I would want my sister to anything for me too, and I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t probably mind helping me.
Kate and Grace were both in the same position. Trying to fight cancer, trying to live through it, trying to believe that it wasn’t happening to them. It turned out different for them in the end. Grace ended up living and beating the cancer, and Kate ended up dying because of the cancer. If life gets hard don’t give up; it is worth it in the end.
