Finally Deborah and Rebecca meet! It's about time! Deborah has been trying to avoid Skloot and other reporters for awhile now.
When Deborah and Rebecca went to meet with Christoph Lengauer I was surprised of the reaction that Deborah gave when she saw the painting of Henrietta's chromosomes. She actually said "They're beautiful!"
I expected her to be outraged or sad of the fact that her mother's chromosomes were being painted or being tested on. She did say "You know what's weird?" The world got more pictures of my mother cells that it do of her."(Skloot 235)
I didn't believe the story of Margaret saying she went to the lower levels of Hopkins hospital and saw human sized rabbits being tested on. But Deborah seemed to believe it, she seems to paranoid at times.
Deborah also seemed to keep believing that scientists were cloning Henrietta's body and bringing her back to life. She asked this question many times and Rebecca would just say that her cells were being cloned, not her actual body.
The reaction that Deborah had when Skloot asked about Henrietta's medical records surprised me because she went from being so nice and seemed to trust Rebecca until she asked that question.
Giving that description of her "leaping up and diving onto the folder like it was a fumbled football", gave me that sense of imagery to picture it perfectly.
It seems to me that she had trust issues, but then again I wouldn't blame Deborah for acting this way, maybe a lot of reporters tried to get their hands on Henrietta's medical records?
Next up we meet Zakariyya and get an explanation of his personality and maybe why he acts so crazy!
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