PALE INGLÉS B

"THE DEATH OF KAREN SILKWOOD"
SUMMARY

The book is a true story, about a young woman, called Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident. But many people didn´t think that Karen´s death was just an accident.
She was working as a secretary but she was tired of her kind of life, when she found a new job at a nuclear factory where the pay was better. She had a meeting with the manager of the factory and she started to work to work the following day.
She met different people at the factory and soon she had some new friends. She met Drew, a man who worked at the factory, too. They began a relationship.
She was happy with her life but later, she started to discover some strange things in relation with the safety of the factory. She was decided to change things there so she got into the Union Committee, a worker´s association. She had always a notebook and she asked a lot of people questions about the factory and wrote the answers in it.
The Committee wrote to the Union Leaders in Washington, because the safety of the factory was getting worse. Karen went to Washington to have a meeting with the Union Leaders. She told them what was happening. The managers of the factory were changing the negatives of the photographs of the fuel and uranium rods. But the Union Leaders needed proof. Karen had to steal the negatives from the laboratory and she did it. She put the negatives in a brown envelope. When she went to have an interview with the Union Leaders and a journalist of the Times, her car crashed and she died.
The brown envelope has never been found.