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A Fable For Tomorrow By Rachel Carson

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In the essay "A Fable for Tomorrow", Rachel Carson illustrates a small town in America that was once beautiful but then became devastated. The main purpose/argument of this essays is to warn people of the effects of pollution on the environment. She talks about how in this town were “all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings”. Then everything “sickened and died” because of exploitation of its resources. Carson later on states that this town is not real but has “a thousand counter parts in America or elsewhere in the world”. Carson uses graphical descriptions to convey the idea of harmony and peacefulness in the first part of the essay. She uses all of the senses to help the reader picture the scene more vividly. Her word choice

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