Cancer and Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge

Cancer and Terry Storm Williams' shelter "We can not prove that my mother, grandmother, and aunt developed cancer in the nuclear star of Utah, but I can not prove what they did not do. At Terry Storm Williams' shelter, death slowly insisted on almost all women in her family. Williams' family died one or two years after. In both cases, the cause is cancer. Williams asserted the conclusion that nuclear testing in Utah province from 1951 to 1962 brought cancer to her family.

On the first 122 pages of Refuge 's book, the author Terry Tempest Williams tells her surviving mother' s cancer in rhetoric fashion. Rhetoric is a fantasy language used to distort facts. Williams is comparing mothers' cancer and nature using signs, minds, sorrows. These are all part of the rhetoric. The logo is defined as the author's argument based on facts, evidence, reasons and logic. The evacuation logo is located in several places on page 122. At the beginning of each chapter, the water level of Great Salt Lake, for example "Lake Water Level: 4203.25" (page 21) is stated. Williams is also very realistic with comparable statistics such as "California has lost 95% of wetlands in the last 100 years and 85% of Utah's wetlands have been lost within two years."

In the spring of 1983, Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother died of cancer. In the same season, the Great Salt Lake began to rise to a record height, measuring the sanctuary of migratory birds of the Bear River and the threats of her life by threatening the blue-birds, owls and snow eaglets, Williams, poets, and naturalists It was. One is the most casual event in nature and the other is a byproduct of rogue technology. In the 1950s, Terry's mother and Terry himself were influenced by the atomic bomb test. When it intertwines these stories about death and adaptation, Refuge turns the tragedy into an update and spiritual grace document, and makes the work classic

By 1994, nine members of the Terry Tempest Williams family received mastectomy. Seven people died of cancer. Her 6th book, "Williams Weaves memoirs and natural history", in her "Exile: Unnatural Family and Regional History", her mother's cancer, Atomic Test and Xionghe Migratory Reserve Double Duplicate I am telling the story of. Based on the vast landscape of the Utah state of the hometown of the flood, this book stayed between nature and unnaturalness in the evacuation center of the bird, which was looted by families and developers tested in the 1950s by the atomic bomb It is. After she first read shelter for decades she wrote in such a shiny way, I still can see herons, owls and herons in the Great Salt Lake.