Terry Tempest Williams structures her essay so well that it has the flow and exhibits a considerable amount of creativity. She envelops the readers in a heart-wrenching narrative about her family, inducing emotions and developing a sympathetic heart (“The Clan of The One-Breasted Women – Rhetorical analysis,” 2020). Additionally, she clarifies the reason for her willingness to write, ridicules the regime, and finally tries to narrate her personal story based on her experience with cancer.
Throughout the essay, Williams narrates with vigor about her feelings towards women living with cancer and shows respect for them. Moreover, her ethos is exhibited through all that she experienced – witnessed cancer amongst her household members and incurred development of cancer as well. The author is relentless in demanding answers as most of the individuals she loved and interacted with contracted cancer. In addition, Williams vehemently underscores that she can neither accept the current situation nor stay frightened of airing her grievances against the regime (Pladus, 2016). Williams exhibits the real blood of revolutionists required in any system to pursue justice for the distressed minority (Pladus, 2016). Her determination to make a change and detailed description of tragic events that she had to suffer from stimulated readers to trust the author and participate in the fight for justice.
As for me, sharing the author’s own experience in the literary work contributes to the comprehensive understanding of the situation by other people and me particularly. People are tent to be impressed more in the case of the story is based or describes real events. They are sympathetic to Williams’s motivations and problems as if she was their closest friend or relative. For these reasons, this essay has the potential to impact a great number of readers, including myself, significantly and motivate them to participate in solving this pressing concern.
References
The Clan of The One-Breasted Women – Rhetorical analysis. (2020). ePortfolio for Abigail Marshall. (2020). Web.
Pladus, M. (2016). Gender constructivism and strategic essentialism in refuge. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 23(2), 370-394.