Diction In Silent Spring

Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, there are many details that help give the reader a deeper, more profound, meaning of the book's intended purpose. Krakauer is one of the most renowned American writers, publishing many books focused specifically focused on nature, and people’s struggles in nature. Through much of the book, Krakauer incorporates many examples of diction and imagery to help the reader grasp the essence of the book. By using a wide range of literary techniques, Krakauer is able to communicate the events that transpired throughout the book.

As the snake “drew back his head and [the man] raised [his] weapon” they both were ready for their last fight. Both felt threatened by each other; thus, both felt the necessity to become defensive. However, neither one saw the situation as an immediate threat, so they did not immediately strike. When the narrator “made an unprovoked attack,” the snake performed “a little song of death.” The reader’s sympathy for the snake once again returns because the snake did nothing wrong. The “little song of death” depicts an image of the snake’s last effort to live. However, there is nothing “little” in death, but rather displays the snake’s submissiveness to the man. The “ominous” situation with “poison dripping from [the snake’s] fangs” is reminiscent of the tragedy that just occurred. The author reminds the reader of the necessity to rid the world of the danger from a snake. It lessens the reader’s grief towards the snake, bringing a more neutral tone to the

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

Louie Zamperini: Olympian, War Hero, Role Model Author, Laura Hillenbrand, in the biography Unbroken, narrates Louie Zamperini’s thrilling journey through World War II. Hillenbrand’s storyline goes into heart wrenching detail of the excruciating experiences Zamperini endured. Throughout, and particularly, when Louie’s war plane Green Hornet crashes, the author portrays the ideals of never giving up and self-determination through diction, imagery, and pathos. Throughout Unbroken, Hillenbrand continuously uses a variety of diction to keep the readers attached. Specifically, when Louie’s plane has engine failure and plunges into the Pacific, the author uses very tense and powerful word choice in order to show uncertainty and to create suspense.

Rachel Carson is considered one of America's finest science and nature writers. She is best known for her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which is often credited with beginning the environmental movement in the United States. The book focussed on the uncontrolled and often indiscriminate use of pesticides, especially dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (commonly known as DDT), and the irreparable environmental damage caused by these chemicals. The public outcry Carson generated by the book motivated the U.S. Senate to form a committee to

In the mid-20th century, farmers used a toxic insecticide named parathion in an attempt to control pests detrimental to their crops. Rachel Carson was a biologist who wrote pamphlets (Lear) on conservation and natural resources designed to inform people on the beauty of the living world. In an excerpt from her 1962 work Silent Spring, Carson calls upon the public to take action against the use of parathion by highlighting its catastrophic nature and vilifying the agricultural community for their negligence.

Rachel Carson purposely uses ethos, a means of convincing someone through an ethnic appeal, in her book Silent Spring. Using a variety of means of persuasion, she pleads to the readers in ways that affect them personally. She starts in chapter one, “A Fable for Tomorrow” by first describing the perfect world. Carson then proceeds to portray a fabricated story of the perfect storm scenario of chemical poisons in the atmosphere. She further clarifies this is not an attack, but rather self-infliction. From there, she describes in details the underlying problems brought upon humans by the chemical poisons used to control insects in chapter two, The Obligation to Endure. It additionally specifies the layout of the history of intervention by

Carson describes the effect of animals being poisoned by illustrating how their “ back bowed, and the forelegs with the toes of the feet tightly clenched were drawn close to the thorax… the head and neck were outstretched and the mouth often contained dirt. ”(Carson 100) When attempting to convince the audience, Carson does an excellent job at creating these scenes that evoke an emotional response from vivid imagery that “shakes” the audience. By describing this horrid scene Carson effectively evokes a sympathetic response to the animal in pain swaying them on the side that places them against the use of pesticides. In order to encapsulate the detrimental effects pesticides haves on the natural world, she never hesitated to capture the ordeal by using very descriptive examples of its effects. This is illustrated when she begins describing “typical symptoms… swam erratically, gasped at surface, and exhibited tremors and spasms.”

Rachel Carson, in her book, Silent Spring, asserts that Americans must seriously reconsider the reasons for which they unilaterally use poisons. Carson does not explicitly state this, for that would have little effect, rather she attempts to force the reader to reflect and question the status quo. She employs provocative and unapologetic diction and rhetorical questions to drive her message home.

People from all over the world come to America for the American dream and when coming here they start to adopt the so-called American culture, which is depicted as the perfect family of four and having a white picket fence. We're filled with hope that coming to the land of freedom will alleviate the problem we had before. We will have more opportunities and ways to better ourselves and succeed. We can build ourselves from the bottom up, but if we were to take a step back and think about the concept of the American dream would we still say it's attained? Lysley Tenorios, Monstress answers if the American Dream is still attainable with three different scenarios in his book. Tenorio uses interesting diction to describe the hardships and how deceiving

Carson’s other books, Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us (which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 86 weeks), and The Edge of The Sea all focus on nature’s strength and the inter-connectedness of nature and all living things. But DDT exposed the vulnerability of nature and I think this influenced the writing of Silent Spring. DDT was the most powerful pesticide in the world at the time of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Unlike most pesticides, whose effectiveness is limited to destroying one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once. Developed in 1939, it first distinguished itself during World War II, clearing South Pacific islands of malaria-causing insects for U.S. troops, while in Europe being used as an effective de-lousing powder. Its inventor was awarded the Nobel Prize.

In the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s main concern is the widespread use of synthetic pesticides and their impact on the environment. Carson concentrates on a commonly used pesticide in the 1950s called DDT. She opposes the indiscriminate spraying of DDT because it has profound consequences on the environment, humans and animals. Carson collected information about how the DDT can cause cancer in humans, harm animals such as birds and remained in the environment for long periods of time. Subsequently, the chemicals in the pesticides are extremely harmful so she tries to raise awareness and convince others that there are better alternatives.

The phrase “[parathion]it is a universal killer” used to describe the damaging affect of parathion conveys the unforeseen casualties that occurs when parathion is sprayed. Parathion is sprayed to exterminate various birds, but by describing it as “universal,” Carson shifts the readers focus to parathion’s adverse affect of many different biotic beings. This is significant because through this description, parathion is portrayed as killing more than birds which appeals to the audience’s emotions. By portraying parathion as a deadly killer, the chemical is now not only killing harmless birds but other humans and innocent animals. In addition to describing parathion as universal killer, Carson addresses parathion as a “lethal film.”

The concept of what is humane and what isn’t, plagues our world and easily influences what our society needs. The war on chemicals sparks a stimulating debate, which is splitting our populace directly down the middle. In the environmental book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson presents a one-sized argument in which she states that pesticides are one of the roots of environmental ruin. Carson deeply advocates the control over pests by limiting the use of pesticides, which she is truly certain that the chemicals are doing more detriment in our world rather than aiding her. Although there is little to no praise directed towards pesticides, the chemicals ensure an imperative purpose that could war outweigh the liabilities.

Silent spring by Rachel Carson is the story about pesticide use and its consequences, which prompts human attitudes towards pollution and gives such a vivid critiques to some modern industrial behaviors. The book is a cause of panel setup for saving ecology of President Kennedy. Carson begins her first chapter “A Fable of tomorrow,” with a visualized description of a heartbreaking outcome in a small town in America when it comes to the massive use of pesticides. She introduces many kinds of insecticides such as DDT, arsenic, heptachloride, chlordane, hexachloride and so forth. The synthetic pesticides tragically spread and unknowingly resided in the body of fish, birds, reptiles, and domesticated and wild animals, and thus also in the body