The beginning of Full Body Burdon is very detailed. It begins with the main characters explanation of her family. She goes very in depth about some seemingly random parts of her childhood such as when she going to McDonalds with her family. They seem like a regular American family. Her fathers addiction to alcohol might cause problems later in the book. The most interesting part to me is the information we learn about Rocky Flats. She goes into a lot of detail about the two fires which consumed the industrial factory. I am still wondering what her point is in describing the fires, and the effect that the radioactive leak has caused. It sounds like she keeps making hints that she doesn't trust our government because of all of the promises that it made and didn't seem to back up. It surprises me that the government was somewhat open about the facility. I would have assumed that all parts of nuclear weapon production are highly classified and the origins were unknown. I also don't understand why so many people chose to work at a facility like this. Although they are told that it is safe in a controlled environment, I would not want to work around anything radioactive.
The beginning of this story helps me to sympathize with those who were growing up during the Cold War. It was mentioned that neighbors had cans of food stocked up and they had bomb shelters under their homes. All of this would be very scary at an age that you do not fully understand what is going on. The main characters father called people crazy for acting like that, which leads me to believe that he is very confident in the US defenses. I was surprised when I learned that the girl who died from cancer had plutonium traces in her body. I think they should have tried to further prove that it was from the Rocky Flats accident because people could have proved that the government had not been honest. The beginning was somewhat boring because it was a lot of information, but I am looking forward to seeing what happens.
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