The HeLa cells (the name from the first two letters of first and last names) gave a gift to the science for life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was published on February, 2nd, 2010 by Crown Books. The author of this first New York Besteller is Rebecca Skloot born in 1972. This book was also adapted for a movie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of Henrietta Lacks an African American woman who died at the age of 31. This book tals about cancer, racism, segregation and a lot of things about the rough life of black people. The author, teacher, journalist of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks won an award of narrative science writter.

This book is really interesting to describe the truth and the reality about the suffering of black people. As Rebecca said "-For me, it's writing a book and telling people about its story." Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five children who died of a cervix cancer. In this book, Rebecca Skloot denounces how black people were treated during segregation and this book shows very well how. The scientists should have talked about the HeLa cells and said how much those cells were needed for science.

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks show how black people had no civil rights but also had no rights on their own bodies. Everybody needs to knows to have rights because we are equal but we also need to know what is going to happen on our body after death in the case of Henrietta. The worst are for family because they didn't know what happened to their mother.

Henrietta Lacks was a strong woman, she was not the complaining kind. She even did not know disease she had at first. In chapter 1 she told "I got a womb on my womb,"she said to the receptionist. "The doctor need to have a look." The fact is that she didn't have money so she couldn't pay for her medical bills.Black people were the poorest of the American society. Henrietta declined any further exam and treatments. All her diseases came from also the fact that she hadn't received any sexual education.

Rebecca Skloot dedicated many years of her life writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This story of how cells taken from a black woman without her knowledge became one of the most important advances in medicine. Thanks to her, Henrietta Lacks became for her cells.

I think this book is really interesting to see how African American were considered but especially how Henrietta Lacks fought for all of her diseases. I support what sciences does with her cells but that support needs to be consented.