Summary Of The Excerpt From Silent Spring

The excerpt from Silent Spring began by describing a scene we all could recognize: a prosperous farmland, with a successful and healthy people inhabiting it. Every detail and description was clear and tangible, almost as if the readers could see the scene. This did draw them in, but the lack of information found at the end of the piece was able to captivate the readers even more so. At the very end of Carson’s tale, we see that the dreary and forlorn town was sprinkled with “a white granular powder [that] still showed a few patches.” Carson even goes on to state that “The people had done it themselves”, and that the mysterious powder was there a few weeks before the town suddenly began to suffer. In essence, Carson stated that the white powder