![]() While Henrietta was getting radium treatments, she would walk from her cousins house to the hospital but once her sickness got worse, she stayed at the hospital and the doctors wouldn’t give her the full treatment. The book showed suffering in a few different ways than the movie did. Although Ethel’s abuse wasn’t the only thing that the Lacks kids suffered from. No one was able to be there to protect the kids, leading to a lifetime of anger, violence, and homelessness as a result of Ethel’s abuse. Since no one knew the kids were being abused, Joe received most of the abuse. When Ethel moved in with the Lacks, she took all of her anger out on the kids. After the death of their mother, the Lacks kids were affected in ways no one could ever predict was coming. She made him stand in a dark basement corner on one foot, nose pressed to the wall, dirt filling his eyes.” (Skloot 112). She’d hit him with her fists, or whatever she had close: shoes, chairs, sticks. Deborah told us that “Sometimes she would beat Joe for no reason while he lay in bed or sat at the dinner table. Ethel and Galen forced themselves into the Lacks family’s house, after Henrietta died. Ethel is related to Henrietta because she is Henrietta’s brother Galen’s wife. A way they were both the same was when Ethel would abuse the Lacks kids. ![]() Suffering can be shown in many different ways throughout the book and movie. The book portrayed her life by describing Henrietta as if it were present time. In the movie, Henrietta’s life was shown in short, vague flashbacks to showcase parts of her life to give viewers a better perspective of what she went through. Her experiences were shown throughout the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, which also conveyed the idea of how many different ways the Lacks family suffered throughout the years. She spent most of her life trying to get answers about her mother’s cells. Deborah, also known as Dale, and the rest of her siblings, were forced to live with her abusive aunt and uncle. Elsie, the oldest daughter, was sent to Crownsville, hospital for the insane, for having Epilepsy. Life continued for Henrietta and her family, but because of all the dramatic events that occured, the family continued to suffer throughout their lives. At this point no one, including Henrietta, knew that the sample was even taken. While scientists were working with Henrietta’s cells, they found out that they were immortal. ![]() During her surgery to remove the cancer, they took a sample of a tumor in her cervix to have it examined in the lab. She was a black woman, who had cervical cancer growing in her cervix. That is the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family. Imagine if your mother died and her cells were stolen, as well as you and your siblings growing up in an abusive environment.
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