A Fable for Tomorrow

     A Fable for Tomorrow is about a town that at first is full of life and nature. There are farms everywhere with an abundance of animals on them. The hills were always green and there were always birds out, even in the winter. Then all of a sudden, things started to die, there was sickness throughout the town, the crops withered away, and the people could no longer hear the songs of the birds. This downfall was not due to witchcraft because it turns out the people had done this to themselves. Of course, this is something that the author, Rachel Carson, made up but she says, “Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them.” (pg. 371)

            Because I read her bio, I knew that one of the issues Rachel Carson focused on was DDT, a pesticide. I think Fable is about the pesticides but I also think it’s about something much bigger than that. I think she was trying to say that it will start with something like pesticides but then move into much bigger issues. For example, not recycling and polluting our planet will lead to not only small areas suffering but also larger areas, growing into the entire world that will suffer from our bad decisions. I think it’s funny that she lived so long ago and thought that we were killing our environment; I wonder what she would say now. I think she would be really appalled at the way we live life.