Refuge; Terry Tempest Williams

In the first 122 pages of the book Refuge, the author, Terry Tempest Williams, tells her story of surviving her mother’s cancer in a rhetorical style. Rhetoric is fancy language used to distort the truth. Williams rhetorically compares her mother’s cancer and nature by the use of logos, ethos, and pathos, all of which are rhetorical components. Logos is defined as an author’s argument based on facts, evidence, reason, and logic. The use …

…book appealed to me due to myself being an emotional person. I particularly relate to the relationship Terry has with her family, mother and grandmother especially. I, being as close to my mother and grandmother as I am, will surely, one day, struggle with similar issues to Terry’s. Terry Tempest Williams has given me better insight as to how I may deal with obstacles I may run into through her courageous and creative writing.