The article Henrietta Lacks written by an unknown writer is a very informative and persuasive article. The author was successful as informing and persuading me in this article. The unknown author’s purpose seems to be to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks threw a sort of legal and biased point of view. The first sentence in the article starts, “the restrictive agreement between the government and the family of the unknowing HeLa cells donor was welcome and long overdue” (Henrietta Lacks), this tells that the author knew and understood the wrongfulness that was done to Henrietta Lacks. The author uses most of the eight elements in the article, and makes it very informative and persuasive to a person that has no prior knowledge of the story of Henrietta Lacks. Using the element of critical thinking is …show more content…
The key question is why is the restricted agreement between government and the family of the Henrietta Lacks cells overdue? The unknown author does in fact answer this question by stating: “more than 60 years ago, doctors who treated her at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore took cells from her tumor without her permission or knowledge, as was common practice at that time” (Henrietta Lacks). An interesting point is that the Author’s assumptions are that the reader is totally unaware of the story of Henrietta Lacks. “Ubiquitous” is a word the author used to describe the amount of HeLa cells found around the world in labs, the author assumes the readers know that the word means this is an example of a key concept. Implications the unknown author used is to teach others about what happened to Henrietta Lacks and her cells to recognize what went wrong to prevent something like that from ever happening again. Information that the author gives is “The cells, called Hela cells, are ubiquitous in labs around the world and have been used in more than 74,000 research studies on almost every disease” (Henrietta