Joe Lacks Part 1

About me: Joe Lacks

        My name is Joe Lacks.  I am the 5th and youngest child of Henrietta Lacks. My mother went through so much in her lifetime and I condemn her for it all.  My mother died when I was young and I never really knew her.  She left her cells for scientists to research.  Bobbette excused herself and ran home, bursting through the screen door into the kitchen, yelling for Lawerence, 'Part of your mother, it's alive!'" (181).  I never understood anything  about science but when mother passed away I knew something had gone wrong.  After mother passed I was sent off to live with an abusive cousin who hit me and refused to give me food and water. "Sometimes she would beat Joe for no reason while he lay in bed or sat at the dinner table.  She'd hit him with her fists, or whatever she had close: shoes, chairs, sticks.  She made him stand in a dark basement corner on one foot, nose pressed to the wall, dirt filling his eyes" (112).  I suffered as a child and it turned me into an angry, aggressive you man. "Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had even known, the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing" (112).  I spent time in the war.  I have seen far more things that anyone else has.  I killed a man.  I was sent to Prison and now I am dealing with my families problems.  I may have done some things that I regret but overall I am trying to change as a person.  I am slowly becoming better and more positive.  I will take some time but I believe that i will be able to be the person my mother wants me to be.  

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