A Rhetorical Analysis Of 'This Except' By Rachel Carson

This except--by Rachel Carson-- was created in order to persuade readers that pesticides are killers, not humans, but to the whole world. Carson does this through an appeal to nature and an appeal to health. Carson evidently cares a lot about nature and her writing supports it. Her appeal to nature approach is very clear s the passage progresses. She addresses the need for change as she talks about the horrible events that occur with the use of pesticides. Carson uses very descriptive stories to help push her point. She talks about how farms in Southern Indiana used pesticides on their crop, killing many birds. Carson uses logos in bringing up that sixty-five thousand birds died from the pesticides incident. Carson also uses imagery to appeal …show more content…
At first she uses pathos to talk about how many workers have to be treated after working with these harmful chemicals. Carson tells us that the workers collapsed, but only advances treatment cured the. Carson continues on, using pathos still, to talk about how children’s health could become impacted as they come in contact with the poisonous materials in nature. Carson enforces the fact that the chemicals will also harm the farmer who use them on their crops. Carson also uses rhetorical questions in order to persuade by asking questions like: “who [would] tell the innocent stroller that the fields he was about to enter were deadly?” ; as well as many others asking about the wellbeing of humans. Overall, Carson uses an appeal to nature by using descriptive stories, logos by describing the number of dying birds, imagery to illustrate the harsh conditions of animals, and a gloomy tone to signify all the harsh effects of the pesticides. Moreover, Carson also uses an appeal to health by using pathos, and asking rhetorical questions. In conclusion, carson does have concrete examples and was successful in persuading her readers that pesticides are not only horrible for animals, but for everything else