Reader's Journal II

The first passage that I found is found on page 66 of chapter 8 it reads: "...There is no record that George Gey ever visited Henrietta in the hospital, or said anything to her about her cells.  And everyone I talked to who might know said that Gey and Henrietta never met.  Everyone except that is, except Laure Aurelian, a Microbiologist who was Gey's colleague at Hopkins.
"I'll never forget it" Aurelian said.  "George told me he leaned over Henrietta's bed and said, 'Your cells will make you immortal.'He told Henrietta her cells would help save the lives of countless people, and she smiled.  She told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone..."
I really like this passage because it comes from the point of view of the author.  It shows the reader how the author has done some research on this topic and has found some fairly interesting evidence of Henrietta's life and how it may not be all true.  It does raise the question if Dr. Gey and Henrietta did ever meet and how the conversation did happen if it did.

My second passage I found on page 80 of chapter 10 it reads: "...Though Cootie could barely move his arms, He'd built the house on his own, teaching himself contruction as he went along, hammering the plywood walls and plastering the inside.  But he'd forgotten to use insulation, so soon after he finished it, he tore down the walls and started over again.  A few years after that, the whole place burned down when he fell asleep under an electric blanket, but he built it back up again.  The walls were a bit crooked, he said, but he'd used so many nails, he didn't think it ould ever fall down..."
I really like this passage as well because it shows how the Lacks family doesn't give up even when things look rough and I believe that that is the same mentality that Henrietta shared as well with her situation.  I really like his story and not only believe that it shows how the Lacks family is but also how Clover is as a whole with all of the buildings falling over and surviving on that last nail.