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Rhetorical Analysis #2 In Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, she describes how Americans have progressively become crueler to wildlife animals. Her argument states that more wildlife is being killed by extermination poisonings and that these poisons are affecting not only the animals but humans as well. This piece, being written in the early 1960s, fits with what was going on in America at the time because America was so involved in foreign affairs with the Soviet Union and was so used to this brutality (being a while after World War II) that they weren’t so focused on the environment anymore, just how they were going to get their crops and such. That being said, the audience that Carson is addressing is Americans who have forgotten about the beauty and meaning that nature holds.