In “Henrietta’s Dance” by Rebecca Skloot, Skloot tells Henrietta’s story so that the average person will be able to understand. While in “Immortal Cells, Enduring Issues” by Dale Keiger, Keiger discusses Henrietta’s cells and wants to appeal to a scientific audience. Although science writers Rebecca Skloot and Dale Keiger both portray that the humanity of a patient should be an important part of medical research, Skloot’s narrative is more effective. She uses imagery and tone in order to reveal that the issues surrounding bioethics is a story that touches everyone. In “Henrietta’s Dance” Skloot uses imagery to illustrate that Henrietta was human and not a test subject. In the passage it says, “The local undertaker met Henrietta’s body at the station where, less than a decade earlier, she had boarded her train to Baltimore.…show more content… Rebecca Skloot uses very descriptive words when describing where Henrietta was buried so that the audience will be able to picture it and feel sympathy for her. The text states, “Gey introduced the nation to his hopes for curing cancer while Henrietta’s body lay in the Hopkinds morgue, her toenails shining with a fresh coat of red polish. And her family knew nothing of any cells” (Skloot 3-4). Here, the author wants you to visualize Henrietta’s lifeless body with her red toenails, as well as the scientists taking advantage of her and hiding what they’ve done with her cells from her family. Throughout “Henrietta’s Dance” Rebecca Skloot uses imagery to humanize Henrietta’s experiences, which causes the reader to have compassion for her. In “Henrietta’s Dance” Skloot employs a serious and somber tone to show the reader that what happened to Henrietta was unethical. In the text it states, “...soon after the Lacks children called Hopkins asking about their mother’s cells, letters appeared in their
