In brief, this novel follows the extensive path of Henrietta’s life from growing up as a poor tobacco farmer, through the raising of her own family until the diagnosis of cervix cancer at the age of 31, in which her death soon …show more content…
From the very beginning, the hardships of the family revolved around the trust of each other, and when the trust is broken, the family ultimately begins to collapse through the rest of the accounts in the novel. When Rebecca interferes with their impoverished life, they believe her to be just another person in it for the money, money from immortal HeLa cells, and money from the suffering story behind them. She earns their trust by proving to them that she is there to help, and to spread the knowledge of the woman behind the ever-famous HeLa cells, and they accept her also by the means that God and Henrietta, who are watching over their family, brought her to them for those very