Silent Spring By Rachel Carson

Nature throughout history has been personified with themes of freedom, hope, innocence, and simplistic beauty. Nature is pure but home to such complexity, within ecosystems and the creatures that live in it. The importance and love for nature has declined as we face modernization and turn to technology before we consider nature. The precedence placed on nature that generations before us possessed has been replaced with social media, and the ability to have most of the world at our fingertips. The loss of importance that nature plays in our social environments has lead to deforestation, global warming, and the declining concern for the lives of the average animals. In Carson's “Silent Spring” she criticizes farmers and their use of pesticides. She writes “Silent Spring” as a way to convey how she feels about the misuse of power those who are in charge of these agricultural areas. She uses diction, her personal love for animals and biological
It’s clear to the audience that she believes the lack of knowledge that the farm owners possess is the reason for the innocent deaths of animals. So by using key phrases and words such as “escaped death”, collapsed, position, lifeless remains, the audience is able to understand the full extent of the damage this carles choice caused. IN correlation with this the way i which she speaks of the owners reveals a lot of insight as well. “Doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared.” We see who is at fault and how their carelessness and selfishness is a culprit in the slaughtering of the animals. Both of these ideas are powerful and make the audience consider the deeper reasoning behind the way she presents them. She is able to convey her passion for the preservation of wildlife and her distaste for the carelessness of those in