In the first part of the Immortal Lives of Henrietta Lacks, life, Rebecca Skloot expounded on the discovery and origin of HeLa cells and how Henrietta Lacks and her family were involved in this situation. Conversely, the second part of this book was called death, which is the complete opposite of life. After reading the second part, I believe that this segment of the book concentrates more on the aftermath of Henrietta Lacks’s death, and elaborate how the discoveries of HeLa cells after her death impacted the world and her family as a whole. Written in a similar fashion of part one of the book, part two not only focused on Henrietta Lacks’s family before and after her death, but it also expanded on the scientific breakthroughs and discoveries
The book Ten written by Gretchen McNeil takes place on Henry Island. The only thing on this island is a vacation home owned by Jessica, one of the teens in the story. She plans on throwing a party on the island and she invites all of her friends. But what they don’t know is that she isn’t the one who actually sent out the invites. There are ten teens in the story, Meg, Minnie, T.J., Ben, Gunner, Kumiko, Nathan, Vivian, Kenny, and Lori.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was published 2010, written by a journalist named Rebecka Skloot. Skoolt had a slight obsession with Henrietta’s life and from this came one of the best books I’ve read in years. In this novel, Rebecka documents the life, death and afterlife of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks. An African America woman who unknowingly handed over her cells to science and practically saved the world we know today. It all started with a flashback from the first time Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins hospital January 29th in 1951.
The memoir, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life by Rosie Perez, talks about how Lydia robbed a store. Lydia abuses her gun rights and she just using the pistol for fun. Lydia steal for fun and Rosie knew stealing was wrong. Rosie found out about her mother’s illness schizophrenia because Lydia always speak out her mind. Lydia is a open book.
When she had the opportunity to do her part in the war she took in in hopes of proving herself to her parents that she is worth more than just someone to be married. Anne shows us that through determination and hard work, things may not end up with the happy ending you expected but instead can finish in something completely different but just as good.
Mosquitoes are killing everyone. It may sound like a grisly nightmare, but this somewhat occurred in the late 1700s. Yellow fever started from mosquitoes transmitting their virus to humans after arriving in the United States and led to an infectious and deadly outbreak across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of a girl living through the virus and battling with the hardships and loss that comes with an epidemic. It utilizes and connects conflicts, characterization, and themes to evolve the story and make it entertaining.
In her autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty illustrates how early memories of reading and books later inspired her to become a fiction writer. She uses intense diction, hyperbole, quotes, examples, and compare and contrast to support her purpose. She speaks in a reminiscent tone to a general audience. Welty narrates her love for literature and acknowledges the individuals that impacted her, ultimately conveying the intensity and value of these experiences.
Peter Strople once said, “Legacy is not something one leaves to people, it's something one leaves in people.” Henrietta Lacks’ legacy is her cells and how they helped hundreds of people. Henrieta Lacks is an African American woman who died from cervical cancer and her cancerous cells were taken from her without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot expresses the central issues of ethics and race through various literary devices. Henrietta’s story highlights the systemic racism and exploitation that has occurred in the medical field.
In the novel, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, symbolic actions taken by the characters illustrates how anyone could be a person’s family through emotional support through hardships and life even if they are not related. Taylor ends up with Turtle and they form a family together, and when they move in with Lou Ann and her son, their family grows even bigger and stronger together. Even though Taylor and Lou Ann are no where near related, they still think of each other as family. Lou Ann talks about how Taylor and Turtle is her family and said, “I meant you all. Mainly I guess because we’ve been through hell and high water together” (309).
In the beginning of the story, Anne is very emotional because she had to leave her friends and old life behind. Our class witnessed two different versions of the story, a play and a movie, but even though these are based off of the same book, they have several differences and similarities. There were many similarities between the play and the movie. The first one I will address is that in both Miep
What is the right thing to do? Ellie Wiesel believes people should do the right thing, but more importantly these should choose a side. Indifference is worse than anger, rage, and hatred as Ellie said, “Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, have done something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses”(Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference). With indifference people are only punishing the victim and helping to achieve the goal of the unrighteous.
Although her father brings a positive thing into a negative situation. “A diary…I've never had a dairy. And I’ve always longed for one” (720). Even though Anne was sad and upset about going into hiding, she got something that she had always wanted.
The grueling experience she was forced to undergo changed Anne’s personality from a energetic and silly schoolgirl to an insightful and sophisticated adolescent. Before the Secret
Anne was seeing the good in the really awful situation that she was in at the time. This explains how people are truly good at heart because she is trying to reassure herself and others that everything will work out and be ok in the end. Anne says “I think the world is going through a phase, the way I was with Mother. It’ll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday . . . “ Despite everything that is happening Anne still believes that it will be over soon and that everything will be ok.
Everything from how her interactions with her family to her perception of her environment and how it evolves throughout the story allow the reader to almost feel what the narrator is feeling as the moves through the story. In the beginning, the only reason the reader knows there may be something wrong with the narrator is because she comes right out and says she may be ill, even though her husband didn’t believe she was (216). As the story moves on, it becomes clear that her illness is not one of a physical nature, but of an emotional or mental one. By telling the story in the narrator’s point of view, the reader can really dive into her mind and almost feel what she’s feeling.
