Henrietta Lacks Book Review Sample

- The setting of this book is a rural small town with a tobacco based economy. There is specialized housing for African American workers in which Henrietta’s family lives. There are not a lot of employment opportunities for African Americans except in manual labor.
2. Cootie had to stop working because he developed nerve damage from polio.
3. Fred gave Henrietta and her children all the money he had saved. Cootie helped Henrietta by helping her find medical care when it was not widely available for African Americans.
4. Henrietta’s last request was for Day to take care of her children and protect them.
1. A big storm occurred.
2. John Hopkins, it was a state of the art facility
3. Her contribution led to many scientific advances, drugs, and treatments.
4. Helen Lane, Helen Larson, because she was African American and because they didn’t ask permission to harvest the cells
5. Deborah was beaten and molested by Galen. She had a hard hearing at school. Encourages her to finish high school and sit up front.
- The white Lacks deny relationship to the black Lacks. They think that the black Lacks stole the Lack name from their slave owners thus are not related.
- That Henrietta’s cells were harvested without the permission of her family.
- HeLa cells fused with animal cells, the public were afraid that the line between animal and human would be crossed.
- Joe was an angry young man. Due to fighting he was kicked out the army. When he returns home, he loses his temper and kills a man.
- Cells were spontaneously changing into cancer.
- Abduct African American for medical research.
- Pancreatic cancer
- The journal published a letter.