The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
3) In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot is searching for the identity of Henrietta Lacks. In the movie Antwone Fisher Antwone is in turn seeking his own identity. Discuss some of the parallels, similarities or differences between the book and movie.
The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movie Antwone Fisher are similar in a lot of different ways. One similar thing they had in common was both Henrietta and Antwone did not live with their biological parents. After Henrietta mother died, her father moved her and her brothers and sister back to Clover, VA, where she lived with her grandfather, Tommy lacks. Antwone was born in the Ohio St. prison, and then lived in foster care until he was old to live on his own. Another similarity was that they was both facing big problems in their lives, ever since Antwone was born he had a problem with his life, he grew up with no parents, his dad was killed, and his mother didn’t want him. So he was forced to live in a foster home where he was beaten and, even molested as a child, and Henrietta over the years developed a knot on her womb which turned out to be cervical cancer. Plus the x-ray treatments charred her skin, turning it black from breast to pelvis. She is surprised to learn that her surgery has made her unable to have children, saying that she had not been informed, even though that was part of standard hospital procedures. While undergoing treatment she is also diagnosed with gonorrhea, probably contracted from Day.
A difference that the book, and the movie had was the happiness throughout the book and film, after all that struggling Antwone did throughout the movie, he finally finds happiness when he finds a girlfriend in the marines, and gets close with his physiatrist Dr. Davenport. By September, Henrietta’s body was almost entirely taken over by tumors. She was in constant pain and needed multiple transfusions. Her cousin, Emmett Lacks, brought some of his
The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movie Antwone Fisher are similar in a lot of different ways. One similar thing they had in common was both Henrietta and Antwone did not live with their biological parents. After Henrietta mother died, her father moved her and her brothers and sister back to Clover, VA, where she lived with her grandfather, Tommy lacks. Antwone was born in the Ohio St. prison, and then lived in foster care until he was old to live on his own. Another similarity was that they was both facing big problems in their lives, ever since Antwone was born he had a problem with his life, he grew up with no parents, his dad was killed, and his mother didn’t want him. So he was forced to live in a foster home where he was beaten and, even molested as a child, and Henrietta over the years developed a knot on her womb which turned out to be cervical cancer. Plus the x-ray treatments charred her skin, turning it black from breast to pelvis. She is surprised to learn that her surgery has made her unable to have children, saying that she had not been informed, even though that was part of standard hospital procedures. While undergoing treatment she is also diagnosed with gonorrhea, probably contracted from Day.
A difference that the book, and the movie had was the happiness throughout the book and film, after all that struggling Antwone did throughout the movie, he finally finds happiness when he finds a girlfriend in the marines, and gets close with his physiatrist Dr. Davenport. By September, Henrietta’s body was almost entirely taken over by tumors. She was in constant pain and needed multiple transfusions. Her cousin, Emmett Lacks, brought some of his