My Response to Rachel Carson "A Fable for Tomorrow"

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When I first started reading this tale, I thought it was going to be a beautiful story written as a fantasy of an imagined, ideal world. "There was once a town in the heart of America where life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings." (Carson 150) We know that this world is not filled with harmony at all, so I felt it was a World that maybe she was hopeful of one day. Then it turns dark real easy crushing that dream. "Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens , the cattle and sheep sickened and died." (Carson 151) This is all fallowed by many other deaths and problems. This can be seen as symbolic in many ways. We all want a more peaceful environment with people who live in harmony and get along all the time, but that would take an immense amount of work and could not easily be done. The darkness can be symbolic to all the problems we are facing today as a society. A lot of us are at war and we are killing each other all the time. We have yet to find harmony in this world. It would take to cooperation of all of us. She then brings it home and actually tells us that she is describing our world. "This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world." (Carson 151) It is sad to know that all of this has happened somewhere in the world. We are such a hostile group of people and all this misfortune is because of us.