The Clan Of One-Breasted Women Analysis

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In “The Clan of One-Breasted Women” the author, Terry Tempest Williams, use dialog, emotion, and personal experience. She uses dialog to give the reader a better understanding of how the conversations were and how emotional they were to her and her family. She uses dialog to tell the how her mother asked what to expect from the surgery. Her story begins with personal experience of her telling the audience about her family being diagnosed with cancer and how she felt.

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