Even though Henrietta’s life was not always easy, everyone in her life, including close friends and family learn to push through the struggles present in each situation until the end of a battle, which is shown in, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. “ The next morning [Henrietta] climbed from the Buick outside Hopkins again, telling Day and the children not to worry” ( Skloot 31). As Henrietta was in the stage of discovering the early stages of cancer, her family had to endure the mental pain of their mother, which shows that even though their mother is not healthy the children still have to think positive to get through these tough times. “Once she’d sterilized the cubicle, she lit a Bunsen Burner and used its flame to sterilize test tubes and used a scalpel blade, since the Gey lab couldn’t afford new ones for each sample” (Skloot 37). …show more content…
“When Albert died on February 26, 1889, slavery had been abolished, but few black people owned land of their own” (Skloot 123). African American people were still discriminated against even after the abolishment of slavery, but some of the Africans kept working hard to rise in the ranks and owned something that most white people in did not own during Henrietta’s life. “They said they been doing experiments on her and they wanted to come test my children to see if they got that cancer killed their mother” (Skloot