The Immortals

In Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author reveals a real-life story about the life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who was diagnosed with a fast-growing cervical cancer at a very young age. The cells retrieved from her cervical tumor, later termed “HeLa”, became the first immortal cell that could survive in the lab and replicate continuously without dying. These cells later became key components to the development of many…

I've been reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This book is about a black woman who died of a cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Doctors took a cell from her cervix without any consent of her or her family. Her cells are still alive today, growing and multiplying. After this event her family will never be the same. The family discovered it more than two decades later that part of Henrietta was still alive and has been…

In the early 1900’s, African Americans were faced with Jim Crow laws that created racial segregation in the United States, specifically the southern states. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, the protagonist, Henrietta was deprived of equal medical, legal, and educational services. The new historicism theory illustrates how African Americans were not given equal opportunities to medical attention, legal action and educational services needed as a result of Jim Crow laws.…

having less money, criminals, and there are still some people who believe that they are inferior to whites. African Americans are seen this way because of how they were treated in the past and the lack of education in the medical field. The novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks gives plenty of examples of how people thought that African Americans were inferior to whites, and that they should not be treated the same as whites. In…

massive world, humans are seized to be used as game pieces in the Immortal Game where the Immortals hold all the power. In Ann Aguirre’s Public Enemies, the main character Edith or “Edie” is the major pawn that immortals fight over. Edie was sucked in like a vacuum cleaner into the perilous world of the Immortal Game, where human belief makes your worse nightmares real. Her boyfriend Kian, struck a deal with a powerful Immortal, the Harbinger, who will protect Edie at all costs but will only…

are the pinnacle of mankind, you are [the only] immortal being, and you are perfect” (1), Pia is the origin for immortals, the “greatest achievement [. . . and] humanity’s greatest hope” (16). As the basis of all immortals, Pia is a wondrous achievement by merely living; she’s also the explanation for the story’s title. After all, the title Origin relates to how Pia is the essence of all the immortals yet to come, she’s the origin of the immortal race. There couldn’t be a more fitting title…

different perspective as to how the immortals view Zeus, and how Zeus views both the immortals and men. For instance, the daughters of Oceanus feared that Zeus would hear Prometheus talking bad of Zeus. Also we see that the gods are always betrayed as going against Zeus' orders behind his back, but no matter what the case, Zeus always finds out about it. Both stories are similar in the way that either way there are immortals that are against Zeus, and immortals that follow him all the way and…

Imagine being immortal for the rest of your life. In a second, you have the power of living forever imposed on you without your consent. Would that be amazing or tragic? That is the life of the Tucks. In Tuck Everlasting, the main characters; Angus, Mae, Miles and Jesse Tuck, experience what it is like to be immortal and Winnie Foster, a normal girl, and her experience with this family. Immortality, death and greed are key themes that make Tuck Everlasting a lesson to be learned about the value…

I have had several Masonic Immortal Brothers tell me that they intend live 30,000 and 40,000 years. At first I was taken back by such a statement; not anymore. As I stated in my previous blog post, Does Immortality Really Exist?, "The way I have come to understand one’s longevity is that of choice. If a person can live to 100, why does he or she have t0 die at all. In other words, one can live as long as he or she…

In the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit, the protagonist Winnie Foster is given a choice of drinking water from a spring that will make her immortal. Winnie struggles with this decision because one of the key characters Angus Tuck tells her that it’s useless and that he wishes he could grow again. Yet, Angus’s son Jesse explains to Winnie the benefits of eternal life when he states that “you can have a good time that would never be stopped. If I had the same choice as Winnie Foster, I…