Why does Rachel Carson begin with "there was once a town..." as though she were writing a fairy tale?

No, she was documenting destruction of the environment.

the only reality that won't be able to be omitted is time, and the ravages of age. yet, we nonetheless hang to the desire that there is a fairytale ending regardless; we've become based on 'the happy ending.' i'm reminded that when Dickens submitted the manuscript of "super expectancies" he grew to become into asked to rewrite the terrific pages to furnish readers a happy ending; he objected, yet finally capitulated, redrafting the terrific pages to make six distinctive endings. 2 of them, the accepted 'happy ending' and the 1st draft that Dickens could have favourite, are actually revealed. it form of feels delusion has been a area people for it sluggish... The autos that shimmered On an asphalt sea jogged my memory That people who disembarked For the enchanted aisles Of ok-Mart and the interior sight liquor shop Had missions to top off The hours of light. Perched on the narrow Plank of a weathered picnic table on the fertile eco-friendly strip, I wheeled approximately to hearken to The canyon-silence of the graveyard the place no person moved quickly, fretted Or moved as plenty. I rose and walked to the grey sea, to existence, uncertainty, That the place I’d sat could be, each and every time I decrease back, no longer nearer to the chain-hyperlink and the gate or maybe no rely if it grew to become into there in any respect.

At the time she wrote it , it was a cute idea. Kind of tired now though. It was utopia doomed so it started off sweetly and Kaboom