Silent Spring
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17
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All Themes The Interconnectedness of Life The Precautionary Principle Past, Present, Future Public Education and Responsibility A New Era of Man
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All Characters Rachel Carson Alfred Koebele
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All Symbols Silence
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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson
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Silence plays an important symbolic role in Carson’s book. Its significance is introduced in the opening chapter, as Carson envisions a small town that is eerily silent, all of its natural life having been destroyed… read analysis of Silence

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