The Clan Of One-Breasted Women Analysis

In the essay “The Clan of One-Breasted Women,” Terry Tempest Williams uses first person perspective to compose a story about the effects of nuclear testing on people and how it has caused her to be a part of a clan of one-breasted women. Williams starts by telling a story of her and her father driving in the desert when they see a bright flash caused by nuclear testing. Next, she talks about how the results of these tests in Nevada many of her family and people in Utah started getting cancer. Lastly, she talks about her and nine others act of civil disobedience and how they were arrested. Williams used determination and persuasion to create a story conveying how nuclear testing is wrong and how it effects anyone who lives near them after
years of exposure. The author means to have the government stop testing nuclear weapons anywhere people live, and she did this by using guilt and causing sympathy for those who have been effected. The testing of these chemical weapons should be done in a secluded area away from any human.