Post 4: The Wrting

"The Edge of the Sea"

Rachel Carson's style of writing is very detailed and unique. She has a way of making all of the creature and elements of the tide pools connect with each other. She also goes into elegant detail describing what each creature looks like and what they do. She will describe how the animals move, eat, mate, and live in a poetic manner that hooks a reader into her world. She allows the reader to smell, feel, touch, and see, what she experiences through her detail, passion and love of the sea which clearly flows onto the pages of her book (The Edge of the Sea).

I will admit because her books do not have a plot or theme I lose interest in many sections of her book but then become intrigued again after I have put the book down for a some time. Because this is the case it is hard for me to go through her books as fast as I might if I were reading a novel. This is not to say, however, that I do not enjoy her creative and capturing writing. I personally have never been good at writing about detail and reading her books gives me new and refreshing words and ideas about how to describe an object, animal, or person.