Authorship and.....

Israel Santana

I believe that the authorship is legitimate. We fight for equality and yet the question why a white women is telling the story of a black women. I see the problems that come with Rebecca Skloot’s point of view being in appropriate. However I feel that no one else went through all the ups and downs of finding out the truth about Henrietta lacks, why not white women why not any one who put in the effort after all it is the perspective that makes the story so intriguing. Most stories or that of a person's point of view, in this case it is that of Rebecca Skloot who decided to tell her story about uncovering the truth and finding the struggle that the lacks family has gone through, as well as shining light on the truth about Henrietta. She the book sort of went back and forth between third person and first person perspective, with her telling a story about Henrietta and herself.

In some respect I may be judged and criticized for being insensitive to the issue at hand. However it is only right that an objective view is set aside from that of ethnicity, class or gender being an issue. The skloot had a lot too prove, no one had ever written anything about Henrietta before. It might have been because of all the red tape surrounding her history. I do believe Henrietta was completely taken advantage of do to her race, status and knowledge while undergoing her cancer treatment, and how her cells where taken without permission but I find it completely permissible how skloot brought the subject to light. Until someone else tells the story of Henrietta lacks that others think is worthy then we can tell whether the author was just or not. Maybe their point of view would be completely different.