This novel is a tragic story and I say tragic because the Polio disease isn’t exactly rainbows and butterflies. David Oshinsky, the author of this grasping novel explains to the readers on how scary Polio actually is and that it’s not very easy to find a cure. Oshinsky provides a very wide amount of imagery when he discusses on finding the cure, he also says that looking for the cure was definitely a race for humanity. I say it’s a race because two very significant researchers had their eye on the prize and which in this case is the cure. The two researchers were Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, I must say that the two were quite the rivals.
The author also tells us about another researcher, Isabel Morgan. Morgan would have found the vaccination, but she stopped her …show more content…
I have to say that it is very influential to me and maybe for other people.
Later on in the novel, the author gives us an intake on the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis. This foundation was founded in the 1930’s by Basil O’Connor and of course
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. The main point of this this foundation was to raise money for someone who suffered from any disease.
After Polio started to spread, it changed many things like how they started to make sure that all of the medication was reliable before it was shipped off to the market. Also, it made
Barua 2 everyone aware that the manufacturers were making harmful products.
The end of the novel was quite surprising for me and for many other readers I’m sure because I was surely not expecting that. It is said that the Polio disease was not a big deal as everyone made it out to be, it was simply a rare disease that’s very hard to get.
The story of Polio definitely caught my attention because it revealed many things that I certainly did not know before I read this novel. This was surely a suspenseful read mixed