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Silent Spring Study Guide

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by Rachel Carson
About 87 pages (26,160 words)
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Silent Spring Study Guide consists of approx. 87 pages of summaries and analysis on Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Browse the literature study guide below:

  Introduction

  Author Biography

  Plot Summary

  Chapter Summaries & Analysis

Carson describes a beautiful American town where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in harmony with each other. Farms and orchards are interspersed with maple, birch, and pine trees. Foxes and deer live and romp in the misty woods. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and wildflowers. Birds are numerous both in kind and in sheer quantity. In winter, migratory birds are so numerous that tourists come to see them. Trout is plentiful in the streams, which have been good fishing spots since early settler times. Then a mysterious blight strikes the area, and wildlifeand farm animals die. People become ill, puzzling the doctors. The birds disappear. There are no bees to pollinate plants and trees, so there is no fruit in the orchards. The vegetation dies. The fish die. A white powd... (read more)
      Chapter 1 "A Fable for Tomorrow"
      Chapter 2 "The Obligation to Endure"
      Chapter 3 "Elixirs of Death"
      Chapter 4 "Surface Waters and Underground Seas"
      Chapter 5 "Realms of the Soil"
      Chapter 6 "Earth's Green Mantle"
      Chapter 7 "Needless Havoc"
      Chapter 8 "And No Birds Sing"
      Chapter 9 "Rivers of Death"
      Chapter 10 "Indiscriminately from the Skies"
      Chapter 11 "Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias"
      Chapter 12 "The Human Price"
      Chapter 13 "Through a Narrow Window"
      Chapter 14 "One in Every Four"
      Chapter 15 "Nature Fights Back"
      Chapter 16 "The Rumblings of an Avalanche"
      Chapter 17 "The Other Road"

  Key Figures

  Themes

  Style

  Historical Context

  Critical Overview

  Criticism

      Critical Essay #1
      Critical Essay #2
      Critical Essay #3
      Critical Essay #4
      Critical Essay #5

  Media Adaptations

  Topics for Further Study

  Compare & Contrast

  What Do I Read Next?

  Further Reading

  Sources

  Copyright Information

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