Silent Spring Analysis

Rachel Carson, who wrote the book Sprint Silent, tried to show us how pesticides and insecticides have contaminated the environment. Carlson’s purpose was to inform how specialists were concerned only about efficiency of the pesticides and the insecticides and they were losing sight of the overall picture. She presents her ideas in a clear and organized way and the tone she used looks like was led to a particular audience.
The book is organized in seventeen chapters and each one talks about pesticides and insecticides and their effect on the environment. But each chapter has a specific topic for instance, chapter four talks about water, chapter eight talks about birds and twelve talks about human beings. All her ideas are well connected because each chapter prepared readers to continue with the next chapter. This organization make the book easy to follow therefore, every reader wants to keep reading and always wants to know what she is going to say next.
Even though, Carson’s diction seems like is led just to a particular audience, it is very easy to everyone to understand what she is talking about. All the scientific words are very well explained in order to make it easier to read by who does not know anything about chemicals. Every important word or idea is understandable. Readers do not need to read carefully or go to an outside source such as dictionaries to figure out the words or ideas. She explained sufficiently every idea and she supported with examples, evidence, experts testimony, etc. The evidence she used is logical and ethical therefore, if any reader wants to find out more about what she talked, can do it and is going to get the same results.
Carson used an appropriate tone in her book. She used a formal language which makes it easier to read for educated people. However, if the reader is not educated can understand it because has too many examples and evidences that can help them.
Through the methods Carson used to present her ideas, we can observe that her purpose is unbiased. Even though she used a formal language and a particular diction, she let everybody understand very well what she was trying to say. The evidence, examples and expert testimonies she used shows the importance of everybody to comprehend the dangerous effects of the chemicals in our environment.