Henrietta Lacks: A Discussion Of Characters

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When rebecca was in a biology class in college her professor talked about a woman, Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were supposedly immortal. Rebecca asked to know more,but unfortunately her professor knew not. This grew her interest towards Henrietta’s story. My first impression of Deborah is that she’s that kind of person who is always doing something to achieve their goals and dreams. The author shapes her impression by talking about and showing all her confusion, frustration, and misplaced personality motivating her to find the truth about her mother. It's 1951 and David Lacks drove his wife Henrietta to Hopkins due to a mysterious knot pain inside her.She denies its cancer and blames it on her recent pregnancies or husbands sexual diseases. …show more content…
Later he finds that the cancer has spread, so he desperately asked all over but dies asking his wife to release Henrietta’s name. Part 3
Bobette visits her friend Gardenia’s brother in law who happens to work at same medical field like her, but upon hearing her name reveals that he's been working class with that name from a dead lady.In shock Bobette returns to warn the family of this shocking news only causing Lawrence to call up Hopkins saying he's Lacks Family. The Lacks family knew very little of HeLa until they met Michael, a Rolling Stone journalist, who got Henrietta’s name from Nelson Rees.Roger sat in the same hotel where Rebecca happend to stay at before his car accident.Deborah claims it was a sign from Henrietta to leave it alone. Roger tries to question the Lacks , but it backfires him and he's the one being interviewed. After learning of Roger’s article the Lacks brothers becoming furious that Hopkins had been making money off her dead mother. Deborah is the only one who kept calm from the new, so she tries to educate herself about her mother’s cells. John Moore contracts leukemia in his spleen mostly, so David Golde takes samples and tries to convince more follow up visits.Golde give Moore a form to sign to take samples, but he