Justice In Rebecca Skloot´s The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

From the viewpoint of the Lacks family, HeLa has only brought pain. Henrietta’s cells became a great success to scientists everywhere, but the Lacks family was left with no mother or credit. While HeLa cells were off taking part in experiments, the Lacks family had no idea that a part of their mom was still alive. When they finally received word of Henrietta’s cells being used worldwide they were angry for receiving no credit or money. Reporters harassed the Lacks family to try and find information about the cells, but soon realized the Lacks family knew nothing about them.

In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, she describes benevolent deception, which doctors had no trouble of doing in the mid-century, as the doctors keeping their patients in the dark. Other times were not even giving their patients a proper diagnosis. The

Most women in the 1950s did not attend college (Telgan 40). She did not come from a wealthy family. In positive ways, Esther is fairly typical of other students such as white, education, and studious. Unfortunately, she is socially cut off from women with whom she has so much in common is one of the ironies in The Bell Jar (Telgan 42). Gender roles in The Bell Jar were really important to the character in the novel.

In the case of Henrietta Lacks and her family, the mistreatment of doctors and lack of informed consent defined nearly 60 years of the family’s history. Henrietta Lacks and her children had little to no information about serious medical procedures and the use of Henrietta’s cells in research. Henrietta’s cells launched a multibillion-dollar industry without her consent and doctors even took advantage of her children’s lack of education to continue their research without questions: “[Doctor] did not explain why he was having someone draw blood from Deborah… he wrote a phone number and told her to use it for making more appointments to give more blood” (188). Deborah did not have the knowledge to understand the demands or requests the doctors made of her, and the doctors did not inform her explicitly. Skloot showed that the lack of consent and uninformed patients, by the use of logical conventions, not only ran through the family’s history but still occurred to them

Her name was special and she changed it for a name that really has no meaning she even got that wrong because it means nothing. Social class changes a person into something that isn’t always good. Dee went to the extreme end of the line, instead of trying to help people like her mother and sister slowly go into society she throws it all

Her father didn’t care about her well-being, and the law didn’t intervene. She had no one to go to and no one to cry to except her mother who was dead. I guess she was weak, and it allowed herself to be mistreated. In “Maid in Manhattan” there was no abuse except maybe morally. I said morally because instead of a prince it was a senator, and even in this day or history in time just like in “Aschenputtel” maids or people of lower classes and jobs is seen with a high CEO or someone of an upper class it seems to bother certain people or it seems to not fit or look right due to their social status.

She had saved a piece of Aunt Abby’s wallpaper and along with complementary samples she found in a wallpaper outlet store. She put them in antique frames and made a gallery wall behind the bed. The bedspread was a muted shade of green with a cream embroidered fleur-de-lis design that looked inviting, especially tonight. Walking through the bedroom into the adjoining bathroom, she turned on the water, threw in some scented bath salts, lit the candles encircling the ledge of the tub, and eased into the warm water. With her closed eyes, she gave herself over to complete enjoyment.

Tubman no longer felt she could live with the name she had been given because she thought it made her unique, which she believed she was not. Since Tubman was young at this time, she was cheap labor. Being noticed as cheap all of her life caused Tubman 's self-confidence to fade. She had started to realize that the only reason she was so easily sold out was because of her price tag. At one point in her life, she was sold to a mistress to become inside help instead of helping out in the fields like the rest of her family.

Mrs. Smith hangs all of her paintings around her room, and will even paint pictures for her friends to hang up. As Mrs. Smith continues to paint she is retaining fine motor skills in a way that she

Arriving early as usual, my mom took us to Bed Bath & Beyond before the start of the film. Brianna and I were fascinated with all the little knick-knacks and kitchen ware. The glimmering copper and silver pans, shiny glass sculptures, and bright “As Seen on TV” logos immediately drew us to them. As our mom would look around the store we would follow close behind hopping in. It was something we had done a million times.