Silent Spring | Summary
Chapter One
Carson's survey of the research on pesticides opens in a most unscientific fashion with a tale about an American town that has suffered a series of plagues. At chapter's end, Carson acknowledges that the town is an imaginary one, but lest the tale be dismissed as mere fantasy, she hastens to add that each of the catastrophes it catalogs ‘‘has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them.’’
Chapters Two and Three
Not until chapter two does Carson identify the source of the...
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