Rachel Carson Thesis

Imagine finding groups of dead animals, spread across the roads and the fields surrounding. Piles among piles, except, they were not put there purposefully, they died in mid flight. The stench overpowers the area for miles, only because of the pests that ate from farmers’ crops. In the mid-twentieth century, that was the reality for wildlife after they were sprayed down with parathion. This chain of events stirred up trouble between environmentalists and people who relied on DDT. One of the advocates for the discontinuation, Rachel Carson, published a book called Silent Spring, which urges the readers to take action against the application of DDT through victimizing the animals, portraying the government and farmers as tyrants, and emphasizing the fragile balance between man and nature which must be restored and maintained.
Primarily, Carson victimizes the animals who are being massacred by the seemingly unstoppable use of pesticides, characterizing them as helpless and innocent. She mentions that, “Such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those
Silent Spring highlights the innocence of animals who make homes out of farmlands, but are mindlessly massacred by authorities when they try to survive. Those same authorities are characterized as unethical when they strive to control the population of birds, but are really killing them because they see the wildlife as pests, despite their gracefulness. Due to the fragile balance between the authorities and wildlife, Carson wants it to be mended and preserved for future generations. The negative effects of parathion make her advocate against the usage and urge the audience to take action against it as well, which is how Silent Spring