Silent Spring Essay

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Carson Essay In Rachel Carson’s, Silent Spring, she goes to extensive measures to express how the poisoning and killing of insects and animals through pesticides is not only cruel but inhumane. With the author’s use of rhetorical strategies, the reader is drawn to understand the mood and tone of this essay through the ethical and logic appeals along with rhetorical questions, precise diction and repetition. Carson’s use of diction with “a universal killer” portrays how she feels about the killing of innocent animals in their habitat because they are inconvenient to the life surrounding them. Her use of repetition creates an effect on the reader by informing them on the point she is making. Carson emphasizes her central argument with, “doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." She argues that it was not done for a better cause but for a better pay. The greed in this world not only takes us to a higher level of disparity but to a sense of evil which grasps the human mind into doing anything. Another strategy Carson uses to emphasize the effect on what she feels is through rhetorical questions and repetition as well. The use of these rhetorical devices combined creates a sense of emotion for the reader. With words such as “who” and “why,” Carson calls on the reader to use their conscious and think if what is happening is actually the right thing to do. She portrays the earth as a beautiful sense of nature which took many years to become and humans are destroying it just because of the inconvenience nature has become for them. The use of logos and ethos in this essay pulls the reader in and then creates a sense of emotion to understand the problem in the author’s point of view. The purpose of this essay was to create a better understanding of how people kept wildlife out of their business and how harmful it was. By harming the
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