Read this sentence from Silent Spring. Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the tr
aveler's eye through much of the year. Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these sentences? Both sentences are negative, but the second sentence has a more negative tone. Both sentences are positive, but the first sentence has a more serious tone. Both sentences are despairing, but the first sentence has a gloomier tone. Both sentences are uplifting, but the second sentence has a more moral tone.
Silent Spring was at first published in the form of a serial and later as a book the author Houghton Mifflin. It documents multiple blows that pesticides cause in harming the environment. Carson advocated that these pesticides must be referred to as “biocides” as they act over, not just the targeted pests but on the lives of other organisms too. Even though Rachel Carson expired in the year 1964, “Silent Spring” is regarded as an influential document even after her death. It has worked persuasively in many campaigns collaborated against the utilization of DDT, which was finally shut in the US in 1972.
However, the lines quoted here unveil a sense of the scenic beauty of nature which went missing after nature was inflicted by the use of pesticides. The words utilized by the author are all positive and in no sense give any hint of negativity in expression. Therefore, it is easy to infer that "both sentences are uplifting, but the second sentence has a more moral tone." Involvement of traveler's emotions enhances the statement's moral tone and its impact on the readers.
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