A Fable for Tomorrow

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A Fable for Tomorrow

• By Rachel Carson

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Building vocabulary

• 1. Laurel, alder, great ferns, weeds, migrants
• 2. A. water in the form of particles floating or
  falling in the atmosphere haze
• B. erected
• C. afflicted with misfortune or disease
• D. sat on or incubated eggs
• F. fisherman

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 1. Par. 1 suggests a world of natural beauty and
  harmony.
• 2. She describes an abundance of nature in all
  formsflora and faunain order to describe a
  comlete picture of the healthy natural
  environment.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 3. She continually describes it in terms of
  strangeness and suddenness strange blight (2)
  unexplained deaths (2) strange stillness
  (3).
• 4. The fact that description relates to the title
  of the book itself, Silent Springin other words,
  a springtime with a deathlike pall rather than
  the lively sounds expected

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 5. She refers to poisonous chemical insecticides,
  specifically DDT, but purposefully does not
  explain its appearance in order to maintain
  interest in the mysterious grim specter.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 6. Her point is that the tragedy is
  self-inflicted, but she does not as yet offer a
  solution.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 1. The narrative structure is to tell the story
  of an imaginary town that undergoes a drastic and
  unexpected transformation.
• 2. The precise and vivid descriptions make the
  contrast between the time before and after the
  tragedy all the more startling.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 3. At the very beginning of par. 3.
• 4. Contrast
• 5. A. in block A, she presents a beautiful,
  lively natural environment. In block B, she
  presents images of death and destruction within
  the same environment.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 5. B. Two different aspects. The chronology shows
  the transformation taking place over a lliner
  period of time.
• 5. C. The negative descriptions of block B are
  more developed in order to establish the horror
  of the stark reality.
• 5. D. No, although she introduces more and more
  specific references as well as manmade structure.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 6. Pars. 8 and 9 begin to offer an explanation
  for the stark contrasts but essentially leave the
  question open-ended.