Is going green and living a safe and cautious the new thing to do or should we sit back and no care about anything like before. This is the main problem that authors Pamela Paul who wrote, “Green, If Not Clean” and Michael Pollan who wrote “Why Bother” have argued and have given their opinions on. Paul argues on how come there are no ingredients on the cleaning products that people purchase from stores and goes on a mission to find out how come. Pollan on the other hand wants to encourage individuals to go green or the world as we know it can really mess up. Both Paul and Pollan in the beginning of their essays go in full detail and give personal facts which pulls in the reader until the end. In the beginning of Paul’s
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Paul’s show of emotion gave off a worried and very shocked. She notes that it was “ten months after my daughter’s birth and “…… I had become hyperconscious of everything that could potentially be mouthed, chewed, or suckled in the roving mouth of my teething, crawling child.” These examples give the reader how she was feeling. It shows that she is a concerned parent who wants her child to be safe and secured from harmful things that could potentially be in the mouth of her young daughter. She uses words such as “Caution”, “Warning”, “Danger”, “bleach”, “harsh-sounding and “unspecified” to give the reader a visual of what she saw instead of seeing what other companies put their products. Her word choices help her case very well it gives the reader that she really wants to find the answer to why cleaning products don’t have labels on them. Pollan uses phases such as “The Big Problem”, “environmental crisis”, and “cheap-energy mind.” This shows the reader what Pollan is fighting for and the definitive reason as of why he chose this as a topic of interest. Pollan also uses phases like “….. plant a vegetable garden”, “reduce carbon footprint”, “Photosysthesis” and “replace” tell the reader that Pollan is in a positive mood and wants the world to be a lot greener than how it is as of
Paul’s show of emotion gave off a worried and very shocked. She notes that it was “ten months after my daughter’s birth and “…… I had become hyperconscious of everything that could potentially be mouthed, chewed, or suckled in the roving mouth of my teething, crawling child.” These examples give the reader how she was feeling. It shows that she is a concerned parent who wants her child to be safe and secured from harmful things that could potentially be in the mouth of her young daughter. She uses words such as “Caution”, “Warning”, “Danger”, “bleach”, “harsh-sounding and “unspecified” to give the reader a visual of what she saw instead of seeing what other companies put their products. Her word choices help her case very well it gives the reader that she really wants to find the answer to why cleaning products don’t have labels on them. Pollan uses phases such as “The Big Problem”, “environmental crisis”, and “cheap-energy mind.” This shows the reader what Pollan is fighting for and the definitive reason as of why he chose this as a topic of interest. Pollan also uses phases like “….. plant a vegetable garden”, “reduce carbon footprint”, “Photosysthesis” and “replace” tell the reader that Pollan is in a positive mood and wants the world to be a lot greener than how it is as of