A Fable for Tomorrow
from Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
pages 370-371
Summary: In this passage, Carson describes a town in America where everything that could possible gone wrong has. She describes how all the birds are gone, farmers can't raise pigs, roadsides are littered, and other problems. At the end, she says that this town really doesn't exist but that other towns really have experienced at least one of the things she described.
Argument/Main Idea: I think that the argument Carson was trying to make was that if America doesn't step it up, per se, then it could inevitably end up like the town she earlier described.
Evidence:
"A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we shall all know" (page 371)
Response: I think that Carson had a very strong view as to what lays in America's future though she may have expressed it somewhat calm and almost subliminal. If things don't change, her reference the the stark reality surely could happen.
