The central idea of Phineas Gage is teaching readers about Phineas Gage’s struggle to live, due to his terrible accident and brain science. The first reason that this is the central idea is on the novel talks about Phineas Gage’s struggle to live because he had an iron rod shot through his head. On page 2, it talks about how he will die from his accident (“eleven years, six months, and nineteen days” later). This is very important because the whole book centralized around the person who lived with his brain being severely damaged. The second part of the central idea is teaching readers about the brain science that was, and still is being discovered about the brain. On page 75, it says that “It explains what happened to to our knowledge of the
