A Fable For Tommorow Rachel Carson Analysis

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Rachel Carson. A writer that has a very engaging writing style. A style that every writer dreams of. In the excerpt, “ A Fable for Tommorow” by Rachel Carson, we are introduced to the writing that Rachel Carson has written. It seems as if she was deeply thinking about the tragedies worldwide and combined them into one passage. The author is trying to inform us about how we could do these horrible actions that were described so we know that we can prevent it. Her word choice is very well thought out and engaging. Which begs the question: How does she create such engaging

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