Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant in Roanoke, Virginia, on August 1, 1920. No one knows how she became Henrietta. A midwife named Fannie delivered her in a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot, where hundreds of freight cars came and went each day. Henrietta shared that house with her parents and eight older siblings until 1924, when her mother, Eliza Lacks Pleasant, died giving birth to her tenth child.
I feel this is a great showing scene. It really gets you thinking of how she lived and what it was like, how it must have been crowed living in a "small shack" with 8 other brother and sisters. It also shows how there must have never gotten a good night sleep because of the trains passing by every day.
Henrietta lay back on the table, feet pressed hard in stirrups as she stared at the ceiling. And sure enough, Jones found a lump exactly where she'd said he would. If her cervix was a clock's face, the lump was at 4 o'clock. He'd seen easily a thousand cervical cancer lesions, but never anything like this: shiny and purple (like "grape Jello," he wrote later), and so delicate it bled at the slightest touch. Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.
This is a perfect example of a telling scene because its very informative about what is wrong with her. In this part they describe where the lump is, how unique it is, and what color.
Henrietta's decision to not go to the doctors earlier effect her because the cancer grew rapidly, which made her life shorten. If she went to the hospital earlier maybe they could of caught it and removed it. But it also helped future patients because her cancer was so different, it helped them perform experiments any time possible because her cancer cells never died. They transported the cells all over the world so other doctors could perform their own experiments. They could also find a way to make her cancer easier to live with and maybe make a longer life spam. Her family was confused when the doctors finally told them what they were doing with their mothers cells. They thought that her mother had clones walking around the world. They also thought that maybe they could have saved their mother when she was alive. I think the family should have been at least compensated for the experiments that they were doing with their mother's cells. They probably made a lot of money doing those experiments.
I feel this is a great showing scene. It really gets you thinking of how she lived and what it was like, how it must have been crowed living in a "small shack" with 8 other brother and sisters. It also shows how there must have never gotten a good night sleep because of the trains passing by every day.
Henrietta lay back on the table, feet pressed hard in stirrups as she stared at the ceiling. And sure enough, Jones found a lump exactly where she'd said he would. If her cervix was a clock's face, the lump was at 4 o'clock. He'd seen easily a thousand cervical cancer lesions, but never anything like this: shiny and purple (like "grape Jello," he wrote later), and so delicate it bled at the slightest touch. Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.
This is a perfect example of a telling scene because its very informative about what is wrong with her. In this part they describe where the lump is, how unique it is, and what color.
Henrietta's decision to not go to the doctors earlier effect her because the cancer grew rapidly, which made her life shorten. If she went to the hospital earlier maybe they could of caught it and removed it. But it also helped future patients because her cancer was so different, it helped them perform experiments any time possible because her cancer cells never died. They transported the cells all over the world so other doctors could perform their own experiments. They could also find a way to make her cancer easier to live with and maybe make a longer life spam. Her family was confused when the doctors finally told them what they were doing with their mothers cells. They thought that her mother had clones walking around the world. They also thought that maybe they could have saved their mother when she was alive. I think the family should have been at least compensated for the experiments that they were doing with their mother's cells. They probably made a lot of money doing those experiments.