Rachel Carson Pesticides

Rachel Carson argues that pesticides should not be used around wildlife or used in general due to their harmful effects. Carson uses guilt, rhetorical questions and other rhetorical strategies to prove her point. Carson discusses the impact pesticide have not just animals but also people to show that this is something that humans should really be worried about. When things hit closer to home people are more likely to listen to somebody and their beliefs. Carson got support from a reliable source The Fish and Wildlife Service , which said " 'parathion treated areas constitute a potential hazard to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife'" to show that although people may not care about animals they should care since it realities to …show more content…
Since Carson mentions boys in the question people feel emotional because these pesticides have an effect on the young and innocent. Carson emphasizes the large scale impact pesticides have to show it is a large problem and prove her point that pesticides are harmful and should not be used. As many people know a ripple in a pond continues to expand and affect everywhere, which is why care Carson compares the death of the birds to an “ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples what a pebble is dropped into a still …show more content…
Carson compares farmers to war fighters and believes they had "waged their needless war on blackbirds." Carson says this to make the reader feel guilt towards the farmers actions (since they are both humans), since it portrays the blackbirds as victims and farmers as the bad guys who are trying to start war. By making it look like the farmers were causing war Carson try to make the reader have pity for the animals since they were being attacked .Carson also makes it seem that the farmer’s main intentions are to kill animals. In order to make the reader have sympathy for the blackbirds since they were being killed, Carson claimed that the farmers were "sent in the planes on their mission of death" by making the farmers seem to be purposefully trying to kill the birds with pesticides she supports her claim that pesticides should not be used. By making it look like the farmer’s purpose was to fight the reader is supposed to feel guilty that their own beings are hurting animals and the environment. Carson paints the beautiful picture of innocent "black ducks that were feeding in a nearby cornfield" and uses juxtaposition to show how pesticides changed things and killed a large part of the population to show how humans should feel bad that they destroyed the animal’s beauty and