In the essay, “Falling Down is Part of Growing Up” by Henry Petroski, it is interesting how human bodies are engineered and structured, and we from our mistakes and to grow from them. I was reading the nursery rhymes in the book, I realized that they have influence and mean something. Before I read the book I, thought nursery rhymes were just a song. While some can be purposeful, some are quite strange or weird. In Rock-a-bye baby, it is talking about a baby in a tree about to fall down because of wind. How is that supposed to sooth a baby to go to sleep? In London Bridges, it talks about a bridge breaking down and building it up again. I never knew that there was a second part to this nursery rhyme about building the bridge up again so when
