How To Write An Essay On The Great Influenza

The Great Influenza The novel The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History was interesting to read from the view point of the award-winning writer John M. Barry. Barry was never any type of scientist, he is a historian who is writing on his thoughts of influenza. Scientists have improved our lives in ways some may not realize; without them society would not be able to treat the deadliest plague in history, influenza. I can imagine the criticism Barry may be getting because of some of the false facts written in the novel. Throughout the novel Barry uses diction, logos, pathos, and imagery to enhance the readers' emotions when reading the text. Diction and logos is used when he wrote “Certainty creates strength. Certainty …show more content…
He wrote from societies point of view as well as scientists point of view, and how without scientists we would not be where we are today. He wrote that there is either a great scientist or a scientist that struggles with research. Another point that he seemed to make was that no matter how much scientists seem to know there is always something else, there always a different mutation. I agree with this point because there are different things happening every day, and scientist are always going to be researching, and discovering something new. The most important point I received from this novel was how important scientist are to our lives. I agree with Barry that scientist are heroes and without them we could be in a significant amount of trouble. Reading the novel made me realize how much our health care has changed and how we are now able to vaccinate to prevent from getting the virus. I felt as if Barry was thanking the scientist in some parts of the novels because of their hard work. I liked how Barry wrote so much on scientists and how important their job is to us. Scientists is the worlds only hope during a