The Marginal World by Rachel Carson is a descriptive essay about the beautiful wonders of the ocean and its many inhabitants. Carson, a marine biologist and writer, used this essay to describe the breathtaking images she encountered in and around a natural pool in the early hours of the morning. Rachel Carson wrote about the incredible natural wonders she witnessed on her short journey and described all of the little details of the morning that built up to an amazing encounter with nature. Carson’s purpose in writing this essay was to show the reader through incredible and noteworthy imagery the beauty of the natural world which people often overlook. She wanted to show people all of the extraordinary things they can witness by simply walking through a forest or exploring quaint subsets of the great ocean through her extensive detail in writing. Carson wrote this essay for the many people who are so close to nature yet still so detached from all of its magnificence. Through her outstanding description, she is able to virtually transport the reader into another world. One amazing example of her imagery is evident as she states, “When I looked out into the early morning the sky was full of a gray dawn light but the sun had not yet risen. Water and air were pallid.” In a work like this, she makes the reader feel like they are somewhere else. With her use of the senses in this specific quote, sight and feeling, she enables the reader to feel what she is feeling. I found that this extensive amount of imagery allowed me as the reader to understand where she was and how she felt, without even being there. This helped me to further understand her purpose and to a certain extent, agree with what she was saying.
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This image shows people distracted by their phones. Although there were no phones at the time this essay was written, it is similar to how people are distracted from nature then and now.
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