Silent Spring & Fireflies - Compare and Contrast

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Excerpt from Silent Spring: Hens brooded, no chicks hatched; farmers couldn't raise pigs; no bees for pollination, no fruit.

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The underlined words make the author seem scared.

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Excerpt from Silent Spring: Roadsides, once attractive, now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire.

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Writing "withered vegetation" makes the author seem sad.

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Excerpt from Silent Spring: "In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; it had fallen like snow upon the roofs, lawns, fields, and streams." Why does "white granular powder" indicate an environmental issue?

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The powder is not natural.

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Excerpt from Silent Spring: "It was a spring without voices..." Which phrase has the most positive tone?

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the dawn chorus of robins