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
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knowledge to expose the reader to the horrific mistreatment of pesticides against the environment and its inhabitants.
In recent years society has looked away from the beauty of nature and life within it, but Carson uses her anecdotes of mistreatment to open the hearts of the Audience to feel sympathy for the animals who suffered from the tragedy. This strategy in literature is called pathos and Carson intertwines this idea within her text so she can appeal to her audience who’s knowledge of agriculture and nature is rather elementary. In the text Carson says, “ the results probably gratified the farmers for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings.” She takes a stab at the farmers here and says that they have little to no regard for the possible effects that their pesticication would cause. She points out the neglect of the farmers for not considering the effects the pesticides had on the animals, almost everything in nature has a cycle and any little tweak can affect a whole ecosystem. She convinces the audience to feel some sort of anger at the farmers, most people sympathize with animals and hearing of them being mistreatment makes the reader rethink and reflect upon the way they treat animals. In a different light, Carson uses her word choice or diction per say to accurately represent the corruptive tendencies that the people in power over these areas have.
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
charge.
While she took different approaches throughout the excerpt she was able to accurately convey her purpose and leave the reader with an idea to ponder. While she kept the theme relative to the text it has an application on a larger scale and could expand within other aspects of society. How showing compassion, caring and loving our environments, our people and our animals would lead to better coexistence and less conflict. If we continue to ignore the damage our choices make on the environment or other people our population will simply become either morally unsound as a whole or obsolete.
knowledge to expose the reader to the horrific mistreatment of pesticides against the environment and its inhabitants.
In recent years society has looked away from the beauty of nature and life within it, but Carson uses her anecdotes of mistreatment to open the hearts of the Audience to feel sympathy for the animals who suffered from the tragedy. This strategy in literature is called pathos and Carson intertwines this idea within her text so she can appeal to her audience who’s knowledge of agriculture and nature is rather elementary. In the text Carson says, “ the results probably gratified the farmers for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings.” She takes a stab at the farmers here and says that they have little to no regard for the possible effects that their pesticication would cause. She points out the neglect of the farmers for not considering the effects the pesticides had on the animals, almost everything in nature has a cycle and any little tweak can affect a whole ecosystem. She convinces the audience to feel some sort of anger at the farmers, most people sympathize with animals and hearing of them being mistreatment makes the reader rethink and reflect upon the way they treat animals. In a different light, Carson uses her word choice or diction per say to accurately represent the corruptive tendencies that the people in power over these areas have.
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
charge.
While she took different approaches throughout the excerpt she was able to accurately convey her purpose and leave the reader with an idea to ponder. While she kept the theme relative to the text it has an application on a larger scale and could expand within other aspects of society. How showing compassion, caring and loving our environments, our people and our animals would lead to better coexistence and less conflict. If we continue to ignore the damage our choices make on the environment or other people our population will simply become either morally unsound as a whole or obsolete.