Sunday, October 2, 2011

summary of page 1-33

    The author Rebeca Skloot knew about  Henritta Leacks from her biology instructor. She was interested about Henrietta the first time she heard. she talks about the immortal cells from Henrietta in this book.

     Henrietta grew up with her cousins by her grandfather. She left school in sixth grade and had to work to support her grandfather. Day and she got married after she got her first baby. They both worked on a tobbaco field. Her family left the clover after war started in the USA. When Henrietta was bearing Deborah she felt something was wrong in her womb. She discused about that with her cousins and she told that to her husband. She went to the the Hopkins hospital with her husband to check that out.Doctor Jones cut a sample from Henriatta's tumor to do a biopsy but Telinde and  Gey took her cells without letting her know. 

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