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The structure of an essay is very important. It helps a reader easily follow an author’s message. The structure of Rachel Carson’s essay was successful in informing its readers of the effect chemicals have on nature and how this would affect the future of the human race. “Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forest or gardens lie long in the soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death” (Carson 613). This statement explains to the reader the effect of chemicals on all living beings. Rachel Carson’s essay also includes problem solution examples. This helps the reader understand the problem as well as fix the problem. An efficient strategy to get her audience involved. Rachel Carson argues in her essay “Under primitive agricultural conditions farmers had few insect problems. These arose with the intensification of agriculture---the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop” (615). This argument provides the reader with a solution to insect problems other than pesticides. Rachel Carson describes in her essay a world that is barely tolerable. She uses the words of Paul Shepard “Idealize life only it’s head above water, inches above the limits of toleration of the corruption of its own environment. Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, home in insipid surroundings, a circle
