Sandra Steingraber

Context
Steingraber uses her real life examples to convey her message throughout her writing from Having Faith. In the first part of the piece she tells about when she was growing up and how she was always interested in science. She tells how she read the textbook and about how she read it during a rained out recess or a spelling drill. Sandra then tells us how her favorite part of the books were the diagrams representing the ecological food chains and this takes us into her next part with statistics on how breast feeding has a lot of problems to it. After she tells about all that, she goes on to another one of her real life examples. She tells how she breastfeeds her baby and then uses this to transition into how there was a big outbreak in Belguim and how she feels bad for the Belguim mothers.