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Reflect upon Henrietta's life, she was a poor black tobacco farmer, grew up in a home-house in Clover, and last moved to Turner Station - a steel city with her family as workers with tough and less payment work which white men wouldn't touch. She and her family needed to feed their children and live in the unfair racial discrimination which is their challenges.
In contrast, their children and family were also her great strengths. First, Henrietta love her children,while malignant couldn't stop her being a pregnant with her fifth child Joseph.She was afraid a doctor would take her womb and make her stop having children.So that she didn't talk about things like cancer to everyone at the beginning. Second, she loved her husband Day, whom her sister Gladys and her cousin Crazy Joe once tried to stop the marriage with. When Henrietta went to the Hopkins Hospital to take the cancer treatments, she just told her husband Day and the children not to worry, she simply went on with her day as if nothing had happended. She loved people and the life with her family, this was the strengths come from her family.
During the last eight months between her diagnosis and death, no one in Turner Station except her husband Day, her cousins Margret and Sadie knew Henrietta was sick. She always smill, always take care of her family. Even after she got sick, she never was a person who say ' I feel bad and I'm going to take it out on you' . She was a nice and optimistic black woman ,so she could keep a normal attention to death.
As her cousin Sadie said that Henrietta just loved people , she had been a people that could really have made the good things come out of you and she had made life come alive---bein with her was like bein with fun. Henrietta was a popular people . When her cousin Emmett Lacks heard somebody say Henrietta was sick and needed blood, he threw down the steel pipe he was cutting and ran looking for his brother and some friends.They had all slept on Henrietta's floor and eaten her spaghetti when they first came to Baltimore from the country and anytime money ran low. She was also a respected people.when her doctor told her that her cells would help save the lives of countless people, she smiled and told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone. She didn't required any benefits because of her immortal cells ,even though she was a poor black woman and didn't know science in that period.
In contrast, their children and family were also her great strengths. First, Henrietta love her children,while malignant couldn't stop her being a pregnant with her fifth child Joseph.She was afraid a doctor would take her womb and make her stop having children.So that she didn't talk about things like cancer to everyone at the beginning. Second, she loved her husband Day, whom her sister Gladys and her cousin Crazy Joe once tried to stop the marriage with. When Henrietta went to the Hopkins Hospital to take the cancer treatments, she just told her husband Day and the children not to worry, she simply went on with her day as if nothing had happended. She loved people and the life with her family, this was the strengths come from her family.
During the last eight months between her diagnosis and death, no one in Turner Station except her husband Day, her cousins Margret and Sadie knew Henrietta was sick. She always smill, always take care of her family. Even after she got sick, she never was a person who say ' I feel bad and I'm going to take it out on you' . She was a nice and optimistic black woman ,so she could keep a normal attention to death.
As her cousin Sadie said that Henrietta just loved people , she had been a people that could really have made the good things come out of you and she had made life come alive---bein with her was like bein with fun. Henrietta was a popular people . When her cousin Emmett Lacks heard somebody say Henrietta was sick and needed blood, he threw down the steel pipe he was cutting and ran looking for his brother and some friends.They had all slept on Henrietta's floor and eaten her spaghetti when they first came to Baltimore from the country and anytime money ran low. She was also a respected people.when her doctor told her that her cells would help save the lives of countless people, she smiled and told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone. She didn't required any benefits because of her immortal cells ,even though she was a poor black woman and didn't know science in that period.