Aubrie Cross

INTD: Science Writing

About 200 words

In “The Clan of the One Breasted Women” by Terry Tempest Williams, she begins by telling her readers that she is a Mormon and belongs to the group known as One Breasted Women. She gives a background of her family and explains to the readers how she knew multiple people in her family who suffered from breast cancer. Her main point of her essay is how she blames the United States government for the harmful effect that nuclear testing has on the people, especially the ones in Utah. She states that she tried protesting against nuclear testing however, every time she attempted to protest against it she would fail.

When reading Williams piece it really opens your mind to the whole situation and it takes you back for a second while you think about the tragedies these people went through. Williams use of a personal story in her essay allows the reader to connect to it on a more emotional level rather than analytical. This technique allows her point to become more relatable because as the reader you put yourself in her situation as if you experienced the trauma as well.