I. Introduction
a. Background information parathion and use of pesticides in the 1950-1960s
b. Information about the environmental movement that happened after the book was published
THESIS: In the excerpt from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, she states that the use of spraying pesticides is not worth the damage done because of the poison's widespread damage to nature and farmers' ignorance to the dangerous effects parathion has on humans and their worker's lives.
II. Body Paragraph 1
a. Carson describes parathion's widespread danger by presenting much of wildlife that was killed as a result of spraying the poison's damage as innocent and describing other deaths as an attempt to change the audience's view to have sympathy for these unintended deaths that do …show more content…
Quote #1:
i. "other wildlife deaths may have gone unnoticed and unrecorded"
c. Quote #2:
i. "Parathion...is a universal killer."
d. Quote #3:
i. "such rabbits or raccoons or opossums...were doomed"
e. Quote #4:
i. "finding themselves a direct target...rather than an incidental one"
f. Quote #5:
i. "pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers"
g. Quote #6:
i. "all their vegetation coated with a lethal film"
III. Body Paragraph 2
a. Carson presents the indifference of the farmers toward the damages parathion could have on themselves and their workers as a way to place blame and create guilt on people to understand the possible future of their own race if pesticides are continuously blindly sprayed.
b. Quote #1:
i. Many workers "escaped death only through skilled medical attention."
c. Quote #2:
i. The "ever-widening wave of death" from poisonings ii. wave of death: dark; ever-widening wave: poisonings were widespread
d. Quote #3:
i. "chains of poisonings" ii. chains: poisonings of workers continually happened after another
e. Quote #4:
i. "fields he was about to enter were deadly"
f. Quote #5:
i. "countless legions of people" who were not consulted with whether or not the poisoned should be sprayed
g. Quote
a. Background information parathion and use of pesticides in the 1950-1960s
b. Information about the environmental movement that happened after the book was published
THESIS: In the excerpt from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, she states that the use of spraying pesticides is not worth the damage done because of the poison's widespread damage to nature and farmers' ignorance to the dangerous effects parathion has on humans and their worker's lives.
II. Body Paragraph 1
a. Carson describes parathion's widespread danger by presenting much of wildlife that was killed as a result of spraying the poison's damage as innocent and describing other deaths as an attempt to change the audience's view to have sympathy for these unintended deaths that do …show more content…
Quote #1:
i. "other wildlife deaths may have gone unnoticed and unrecorded"
c. Quote #2:
i. "Parathion...is a universal killer."
d. Quote #3:
i. "such rabbits or raccoons or opossums...were doomed"
e. Quote #4:
i. "finding themselves a direct target...rather than an incidental one"
f. Quote #5:
i. "pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers"
g. Quote #6:
i. "all their vegetation coated with a lethal film"
III. Body Paragraph 2
a. Carson presents the indifference of the farmers toward the damages parathion could have on themselves and their workers as a way to place blame and create guilt on people to understand the possible future of their own race if pesticides are continuously blindly sprayed.
b. Quote #1:
i. Many workers "escaped death only through skilled medical attention."
c. Quote #2:
i. The "ever-widening wave of death" from poisonings ii. wave of death: dark; ever-widening wave: poisonings were widespread
d. Quote #3:
i. "chains of poisonings" ii. chains: poisonings of workers continually happened after another
e. Quote #4:
i. "fields he was about to enter were deadly"
f. Quote #5:
i. "countless legions of people" who were not consulted with whether or not the poisoned should be sprayed
g. Quote