The timing in this chapter is more similar to the beginning of the story than the last two chapters where it skips around. Kris's fathers problems continue to get worse and worse as the story goes on. He is now in the hospital, and never even met his two Grandchildren. This really surprised me because in the beginning of the book I thought that he was a loving father, and now he doesn't seem to care at all. Why did he give up on being a lawyer and start being a cab driver? It is really sad that Kris doesn't have any steady male figure in her life. I thought that when she got married and had children, the guy would stay around. Now she is a single mother of two, and not even her father is around. Is she happy with her life?
I was very surprised when I read that Kris wanted to work at Rocky Flats. I thought that after hearing all of the bad publicity, she would be against working there. Why would she put herself at risk after everything that she has heard? Was she guilty at all after what happened to Mark? I hope Kris doesn't get sick from working at Rocky Flats, but I have a bad feeling about it.
It seems that a lot of people are surprised that Kris started the job at Rocky Flats, which I am also. One thing that I realized though is that Kris never really was one to believe something wrong was happening at Rocky Flats...considering the fact that she is writing the story in past tense and often brings up the fact that her family never was educated on what really went on at Rocky Flats. This realization cautions me to think that maybe Kristen Iversen wrote this memoir because she was guilty for becoming part of went on at Rocky Flats.
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