Common Theme~
The two stories, “If I forgot Thee, Oh Earth” and “Silent Spring” share a common theme of people destroying earth because they are not taking care of it.
2. “If I Forgot Thee, Oh Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke
“Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a perennial reminder of the ruinous past” (165).
I believe this is meant to say that the ruinous Earth the people created will always still be visible because of the glow. The destroyed past, from the people, will never be forgotten.
“It would be centuries yet before that deadly glow died from the rocks and life could return again to fill that silent, empty world” (165).
This means that it would be multiple years until life would …show more content…
This is all because the Earth has been ruined by the people and they need to put in the effort if they wish to have a future.
“Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson
“... mysterious maladies swept the flock of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death” (168). All the farm animals are beginning to die because of the people. Because the people are using pesticides, all their cattle and chickens are dying or in other words pretty much all their food is dying.
“The farmers spoke of much illness among their families….. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours” (
Real human beings were now beginning to die! Families were fading unexpectedly because diseases were being spread around people that were causing them to die. Unknowingly, this was all because of the pesticides that were being used.
“On the mornings that had once been throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh”
The two stories, “If I forgot Thee, Oh Earth” and “Silent Spring” share a common theme of people destroying earth because they are not taking care of it.
2. “If I Forgot Thee, Oh Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke
“Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a perennial reminder of the ruinous past” (165).
I believe this is meant to say that the ruinous Earth the people created will always still be visible because of the glow. The destroyed past, from the people, will never be forgotten.
“It would be centuries yet before that deadly glow died from the rocks and life could return again to fill that silent, empty world” (165).
This means that it would be multiple years until life would …show more content…
This is all because the Earth has been ruined by the people and they need to put in the effort if they wish to have a future.
“Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson
“... mysterious maladies swept the flock of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death” (168). All the farm animals are beginning to die because of the people. Because the people are using pesticides, all their cattle and chickens are dying or in other words pretty much all their food is dying.
“The farmers spoke of much illness among their families….. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours” (
Real human beings were now beginning to die! Families were fading unexpectedly because diseases were being spread around people that were causing them to die. Unknowingly, this was all because of the pesticides that were being used.
“On the mornings that had once been throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh”