My sister´s keeper
Worldwide, crime rates are increasing drastically. Unfortunately, its pace is too fast and seems unstoppable. With criminal rates getting higher and higher, new and more controversial kinds of crime arise.
Normally, the victim of a crime is not the one to be blamed for the crime he is already the victim of. However, in the case of Davida, the main character in “ My sister´s keeper”, I consider that her choices led her to death due to two main reasons: her sexuality and her political ambitions.
Being a lesbian may be a challenge, but for some it may also be a burden. Being an only child, Davida lets her mother down by choosing a sexual orientation that will never provide a marriage, a family or grandchildren. Furthermore, her mother is part of an elite social class that upholds traditional values. The most important one is heterosexual orientation to provide procreation, with the objective of keeping the family name as part of that elite. Due to this, her mother is disappointed at Davida, as the family will not remain belonging; and she is also ashamed in front of her friends, who she considers the hardest judges of moral values. Working as a representative, her sexuality becomes a weak point for the opposing political party to attack her. In addition, every bill she wants to pass involves female researchers, bringing along suspicion about the researchers´ objectivity regarding the investigations.
Be careful what you wish for, preys a popular saying. Nothing could be further from the truth to Davida´s faith. As a member of a political party, as an elected representative of the people, she faces the responsibility to fulfil her voters´ needs and to see her political campaign promises accomplished. Her stem-cell bill is her most appreciated project, an asset to her political career. But it is also, her sentence. She receives anonymous letters threatening her, very much like the ones seen on movies: with letters cut out from papers and blood-wanting messages. She is egged outside a courthouse after defending her bill project with all her heart. She is the victim of aggressions led by pro-God´s work activists, who want to see her bill vetoed. Also, her sexuality interferes with her political ambitions, as neither the Congress nor the White House will ever accept a lesbian among their congressmen.
It is often said that people can not always get what they want. That has been the case of Davida. In her search for happiness by fulfilling her ambitions, she finds struggle, confrontation and conflict. In he closest companions in life and in people she has not even met, there is resistance, there is oppression. Her love for another woman is a constant struggle, has it has been said before. Her will to persevere in her political career turns her work into an endless war. In conclusion, everything she wants lead her to destruction, and in the end, to her own death.
