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l The author is interested in Herrietta Lacks who is given the first immortal human cell. When she first learn about Hela cells on biology class, her instructor tells that Herrietta Lack's cells are the most important thing that in medicine.
l The author consults a lot of magazines and articles about Herrietta Lack's family and Herrietta. She decides to write a book about Herrietta lack. This book is not only write cells in science; it also writes Herrietta's life.
l The author meets Herrietta's daughter, she provides more true stories to author. This book is the result.
l Herrietta finds herself does not feel right and her husband takes her to see a doctor. A doctor identifys she gets cervix canner.
l When Herritta's mother died,her father does not want to take care of his tenth children. He sends them to his relatives.Herrietta is adopted by her grandfather,Tommy when she was four years old.Tommy also adopted a child who named David and he was 5 years older than Herritta.
l Tommy has a field that plant tobaccos.Herrietta and David are in the field with their cousins when they are out of school.
l As they grow older, Herrietta married with David. When Herrietta was 14 years old, she had the first baby.
l When world war11 came, David follows his cousin to work on Tunner Station. Later, Herrietta moves to Tunner Station.
l Herrietta goes to Hopins hospital. Doctors diagnosis that she gets cervix canner.
l Doctors think about how to treat her disease. They cut two parts of cell from her body. One is from her tumor's cell, other one is from healthy cervical tissue. They start do a lot of experiments from her cells.
Impression:
Herritta's event reminds me about my uncle. He was died stomach cancer.
At that time, i saw he was tortured by this disease. The whole body lost a lot of weight.
Until he died, he did not feel a little bit happy. So i think we should protect our body,
we should have good habits of living. At least, we are not sorry for ourself.
Question:
How did Herrietta feel when she know she get cervix canner?
How does woman prevent this disease?
Good summary. (But why are the sentences broken up like they are in the display?) It's sad about your uncle. It's true we need to take good care of our bodies, but sometimes cancer happens to the healthiest person.
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