The Marginal World analysis

The Marginal World, by Rachel Carson, is written about the sea and how it is a whole separate world, yet it manages to evolve and thrive within the hectic world around it. Rachel Carson, a marine biologist and writer, is a naturalist and author credited for her creative way of sharing the beautiful stories of the sea with the public. Carson uses imagery and figurative language to describe the beauty she saw within the sea. She tells of plant and animal life, hidden shelters and unique tendencies of aquatic animals living in a world unseen; the sea. Carson uses the sea and compares it to the life of an average human. This gives her essay a strong sense of purpose; life is not all that it seems and point of view changes the way one looks at the world. Carson describes the calm of the sea, how the development of aquatic life and the evolving sea world sometimes go unnoticed when the human world is always distracted. She uses this description to tell the audience that there is always a calm, a solution, or a haven within each obstacle in life. Carson does not target a particular audience, yet she does connect more with people who have gone through obstacles in their life, people who have been caught up in the hustle and bustle of living. The imagery and figurative language help to give Carson’s writing a certain style and rhetoric. The way she describes the sea gives the reader a view into what seems like a world far away. Yet she continues to use her rhetoric to connect this far away world to the world of every human on planet Earth. Carson was successful in achieving her purpose. Her comparison of tense to calm and ocean life to the real world gave the reader a new perspective on life, showing that it is not all that it seems.

A Cave in the Sea

The hustle and bustle of the real world continues as the calm life under the sea goes unnoticed.

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