The part of chapter 7 that had me interested was page 282 to
page 283. One of the smallest sections
of the book is the one that stood out the most to me. It starts with Kris quitting her job and
getting a teaching job and the Colorado School of Mines. She goes to fill out her paperwork to quit,
and that is when Kristen decides that she wants to write about Rocky
Flats. The biggest question we’ve been
asking during this class is “why is Kristen Iversen writing this memoir?” and
that question is finally answered on these pages. “I want to write about the two things that
have frightened me most in life, Rocky Flats and Dad’s alcoholism” (Iversen 283). She continues to go into more detail about
how she feels that both her life and the story of Rocky Flats should be told
together because it all seems so connected.
The best part of these paragraphs is the very last sentence: “It’s
turned out that the most important story to tell is quite literally in my own
backyard” (Iversen 283). You can tell
that Iversen had been struggling with what to write about for a while, but when
she finally found it she was shocked to know that she had been so close to her
story for so long. This section stuck
out to me because it shows the struggles that Iversen went through as a writer
to come up with such a great story, and because it is the reason for her becoming
a writer. She’d always wanted to be a
writer but never knew what to write about.
Once she found her muse she could write her heart out.
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