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The Refuge
In a recent interview Robert Oppenheimer (Director of the first U. ... The book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, written by Terry Tempest Williams, talks about the unforeseen effects of these nuclear tests on a local Salt Lake City family. ... Terry Tempest Williams goes into specific details on the effects of the flooding on a local bird migratory refuge. ... The effects of the flooding on the refuge made Williams deeply concerned about environmental issues, which led to her becoming an environmentalist author. ... Williams also similarly discusses the damages on the city, but she places most of her attention discussing the effects on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. ... The Bird Refugee was important to Williams because it was a source of inspiration for her, “When most people had given up on the Refuge, saying the birds were gone, I was drawn further into its essence. ... Williams also describes them as being regular by nesting in spring, foraging with their young in the summer and abandoning the Refuge by winter (Williams, 8). ... All these sad events taking place at the same time show the vast change in William’s mood from hope to anguish with the change of the lake level and its effects on the life of the bird’s in the refuge. ...
The book Refuge like mentioned earlier plays out on the backdrop of Williams mother suffering from cancer. ... The book Refuge is a very emotional draining book, not only for Terry Tempest Williams, who had to live through the whole ordeal, but for all its readers as well. ... Even though, till this day there is no direct evidence linking the number of cancer cases in Salt Lake to the Nevada nuclear testing, the burden of proof seems to be burying down on the government to take responsibility for their erroneous acts and also to learn from these mistakes, so we never have to read another book like Refuge again.
Approximate Word count = 1734
Approximate Pages = 6.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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