Full Body Burden Chapter 2 Blog, Gabriella Maddaloni

            This book/memoir becomes increasingly more intense as the pages turn.  Rocky flats is step-by-step being exposed, forcing them to come clean slowly but surely.  It seems that there is always I new truth-seeker being introduced in the book, eager to strip back the protective sealing that is Rocky Flats.  Throughout the book, it is learned that more and more contamination is being found in the soil, and water.  At first Plutonium, then Tritium, and finally americium and strontium-90.  The more I read, the more I feel for the people living in the surrounding areas of Rocky Flats; it’s a certain death trap.  Certain because no one can escape all of those deathly chemicals completely unharmed, and trap because Rocky Flats refuses to admit to all of the wrong doing even when there is proof to the contrary of what they are saying. 

            In a similar manner, it seems that Kr’s life becomes increasingly hectic.  Through her memoir, we learn how she does not have many friends, and the one she does have tries to get her to partake in events that she is more or less terrified of doing.  Kris’ one friend, Tina, and even her own mother constantly push her to act like someone she is not, someone they want her to be.  The only real companion she has is her horse, Tonka.  Randy is a boy Kris has admired for a long while, but she is much too shy to talk to any boy at all.  Her father’s business seems to be going downhill, as well as her parents’ marriage.  The final event read is the most serious.  Yes, Kris’ father has been in car accidents before.  Since he drinks more than he should and drives drunk, it is no wonder that he gets into accidents.  Yet, this one is different because he puts the lives of Kris and Karma is extreme danger.  Her father of course denies he was intoxicated, claiming there was another car present and he was saving them from a head on collision.  Yet, they know there was no car and they know it was alcohol that caused the accident.  Like usual, everyone avoids talking about the event and they proceed to live their life as if nothing ever happened; it is forgotten.