Phineas Gage
Author: John Fleishman
Genre: Non-Fiction
Phineas Gage was a railroad worker of Vermont in the 1800’s. He had a gruesome accident that led to advancements in brain science. He was the foreman of the railroad workers and worked with explosives, he had a horrible accident that involved a tamping iron and explosive black powder. Despite the horrible accident, he made a “complete recovery.” The benefit of Phineas’s accident is that it leads to new discoveries about the brain.
The theme of this book is about luck. John Fleishman, the author, thinks that Phineas was lucky because the rod didn’t kill him. However, I disagree with him because anyone who has a metal rod shoot through their head is defiantly not lucky. Luck is when something good happens to you or something bad dos not happen to you.
I thought that this book was OK, but not very good. I didn’t like the details or how much they went into everything about the brain. However, the main story was interesting. I think that if you took this book and got rid of all the facts about the brain it would be a good, but short book. My rating for this book is about 1 ½ stars out of 5. I would recommend this book to people who like science and non-fiction books because, it would be more interesting to them than it was to me.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Phineas Gage was a railroad worker of Vermont in the 1800’s. He had a gruesome accident that led to advancements in brain science. He was the foreman of the railroad workers and worked with explosives, he had a horrible accident that involved a tamping iron and explosive black powder. Despite the horrible accident, he made a “complete recovery.” The benefit of Phineas’s accident is that it leads to new discoveries about the brain.
The theme of this book is about luck. John Fleishman, the author, thinks that Phineas was lucky because the rod didn’t kill him. However, I disagree with him because anyone who has a metal rod shoot through their head is defiantly not lucky. Luck is when something good happens to you or something bad dos not happen to you.
I thought that this book was OK, but not very good. I didn’t like the details or how much they went into everything about the brain. However, the main story was interesting. I think that if you took this book and got rid of all the facts about the brain it would be a good, but short book. My rating for this book is about 1 ½ stars out of 5. I would recommend this book to people who like science and non-fiction books because, it would be more interesting to them than it was to me.
