Emily Villegas
Ms. Apperson
English 1A
September 24, 2017
True Intentions It’s difficult to understand the reasons why somebody does something. Trusting that person’s intentions is just about all we’d be able to do about it. As Rebecca Skloot continued her journey throughout a story she was breaking down, the story she wrote named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she said many things about herself that really gave the reader a pretty good perspective of who she is. Skloot is the is the author of the book herself though; She does hold the power to persuade her readers into agreeing with her views. Whether she be objective or subjective her true intentions become persuading the reader the reason for writing this story. In the end, the …show more content…
Detaching your views and introducing new ideas that many people have. It also benefits you because you can get many answers from many different points of views for searching for a true response. Using background knowledge that couldn’t have been found in Skloot’s story is one way to start. Throughout learning about Skloot in the story I also learned a few things from her true life story. Rebecca Skloot didn’t write Henrietta’s story in a day. In fact it almost took her about ten years to complete the story and finish the book entirely. Writing the story wasn’t cheap either. Skloot had to write and pay for her trips with the little money school gave her and through loans and debts. Apart from being a waste of money, the beginning of her writing her book took a whole lot of convincing from the family and shows it wasn’t an easy thing to do. You can view that Skloot’s intentions weren’t fully based upon the fact that the book can earn her loads of cash just by the way she turned down a great opportunity of getting the story published. She did so out of respect for the family because the publisher wanted to exclude the name of the family but Skloot disagreed. You view Skloot does take pride in what she wrote and respects that the Lacks family deserves acknowledgement. Although Skloot has benefited plenty so far based of off the prices each of her books sells for, you can’t judge her intentions with …show more content…
For one she wrote about the point of view of the Lacks family because she was supportive of them and wanted to acknowledge their story. She was very skewed upon how they were feeling and she didn’t really show a different point of view. She really made the doctors and scientists look like bad guys because that is the way the Lackses viewed them. A media critic named Ellis Cose in the article The Search for Objectivity in Journalism commented, “Is objectivity or even fairness possible when dealing with people from different racial groups and cultural backgrounds?” What if the doctors or scientists who took the cells were African American. Would a change in race change the point of view of the story. Many people enjoyed what Skloot wrote but maybe because it was coming from a white lady. Maybe a white lady writing about an African American family gained her more repect as a writer. Maybe that was another benefit she was searching for in writing about the Lacks family. What if the white doctor was writing the story in their point of view. The readers would see a different side of the story. Maybe the doctor wouldn’t be as subjective as Skloot and just state the facts. It would create a whole other intention in writing and would change the way many people view Skloot’s
Ms. Apperson
English 1A
September 24, 2017
True Intentions It’s difficult to understand the reasons why somebody does something. Trusting that person’s intentions is just about all we’d be able to do about it. As Rebecca Skloot continued her journey throughout a story she was breaking down, the story she wrote named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she said many things about herself that really gave the reader a pretty good perspective of who she is. Skloot is the is the author of the book herself though; She does hold the power to persuade her readers into agreeing with her views. Whether she be objective or subjective her true intentions become persuading the reader the reason for writing this story. In the end, the …show more content…
Detaching your views and introducing new ideas that many people have. It also benefits you because you can get many answers from many different points of views for searching for a true response. Using background knowledge that couldn’t have been found in Skloot’s story is one way to start. Throughout learning about Skloot in the story I also learned a few things from her true life story. Rebecca Skloot didn’t write Henrietta’s story in a day. In fact it almost took her about ten years to complete the story and finish the book entirely. Writing the story wasn’t cheap either. Skloot had to write and pay for her trips with the little money school gave her and through loans and debts. Apart from being a waste of money, the beginning of her writing her book took a whole lot of convincing from the family and shows it wasn’t an easy thing to do. You can view that Skloot’s intentions weren’t fully based upon the fact that the book can earn her loads of cash just by the way she turned down a great opportunity of getting the story published. She did so out of respect for the family because the publisher wanted to exclude the name of the family but Skloot disagreed. You view Skloot does take pride in what she wrote and respects that the Lacks family deserves acknowledgement. Although Skloot has benefited plenty so far based of off the prices each of her books sells for, you can’t judge her intentions with …show more content…
For one she wrote about the point of view of the Lacks family because she was supportive of them and wanted to acknowledge their story. She was very skewed upon how they were feeling and she didn’t really show a different point of view. She really made the doctors and scientists look like bad guys because that is the way the Lackses viewed them. A media critic named Ellis Cose in the article The Search for Objectivity in Journalism commented, “Is objectivity or even fairness possible when dealing with people from different racial groups and cultural backgrounds?” What if the doctors or scientists who took the cells were African American. Would a change in race change the point of view of the story. Many people enjoyed what Skloot wrote but maybe because it was coming from a white lady. Maybe a white lady writing about an African American family gained her more repect as a writer. Maybe that was another benefit she was searching for in writing about the Lacks family. What if the white doctor was writing the story in their point of view. The readers would see a different side of the story. Maybe the doctor wouldn’t be as subjective as Skloot and just state the facts. It would create a whole other intention in writing and would change the way many people view Skloot’s