Question

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks features parallel stories of Henrietta Lacks, her family, and the author herself. Which one of the following themes do these stories share?

A. Strangers' lives may be connected in unexpected ways.
B. The pursuit of knowledge can change a person’s life.
C. Policies of racial segregation have had lingering effects.
D. One person’s misfortune may be another person’s gain.

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

Henrietta dies of cancer but her cancer cells are used by researchers to beenfit themselves and the research.

Her family suffers while other people gain benefit from Henerietta.

Journalists and others use Lackses for their own gain. This becomes the reason for lack of trust of Lackses on the author. Deborah, daughter of Henrietta dies of heart attack in the end. She has been paranoid and had been trying to understand the cause of her mother's death. She is afraid that she will die like her own mother. Meanwhile organization Hopkins try to contact her to find more genetic information on Lackses genes to advance their benefit.

The whole stroy revolves around how one person's misfortune is another person's gain.