insight on essay

Cause and effect essay in the Norton Reader is "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" by Terry Tempest Williams, this essay is personal and showing that due to the nuclear testing grounds in Nevada, Utah, where atomic bombs were “thrown” the women in Terry’s family along with other women children and men were affected by the testing. The testing affect was that these people in a couple of year had a from of cancer and later died. But cancer and later death was not the only form of cause and effect that was in this essay. Terry also spoke how due to the fact that she was a Mormon she was to respect authority, in this case the government, “obedience is reserved, and independent thinking is not” (359.) Terry was not able to question why the government was allowing the nuclear testing to keep testing, seeing the cases of cancer and deaths are in that area even though there is no specific link to the cancer and the atomic bombs. The affect was that the terry finally go tired of sitting back and finally stood up and questioned and went against authority. Terry gives a lot of description and she places you at that moment being able to see what she was seeing at that moment. She clearly is able to state what the two causes where and how they affected her as time went by.