Question

What did trips to South Boston mean for Henrietta and her family?

Answer 1

The trips to South Boston meant economic survival for Henrietta and her family because South Boston was the place that the Lacks took their tobacco crops for auctioning.

• The regular trips to South Boston happened after the tobacco harvest, depicting the Lacks as poor tobacco farmers.

• However, the main lesson from the non-fiction, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, explored the problems of racism, classism, and sexism in America.

• When Henrietta became sick and was diagnosed of cervical cancer, her cells, widely known as HeLa, were taken for medical research purposes without her full knowledge and expressed consent.

• Since then, many medical advances have been attributed to researches on her ever-living cells, including polio vaccine.

Thus, without the trips to South Boston, Henrietta and her family would have found it too difficult to sell their crops.

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