Polio
When the topic polio is brought up, most people have very little knowledge about it. Some have heard that Franklin D. Roosevelt had it. Some even know that you can be paralyzed from. But, most only know the basic facts. Polio was a disease that spread all through the United States in the 1950s and 1960s crippling, paralyzing, and killing many people and also played a role in many novels including Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks, and Close to Home by Lydia Weaver (Gautam, Kul)(Baugh, Alex)("THE BIG DIPPER MARATHON by Jerome Brooks | Kirkus Reviews")(“Close to Home : A Story of the Polio Epidemic").
“(Polio is) a serious disease that affects the nerves of the spine and often makes a person permanently unable to move particular muscles.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). So, in easier terms, polio (or Poliomyelitis) is a disease that can paralyze people. Although …show more content…
One example is the story Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter. This story is about a girl named Ann Fay is living in the midst of a polio epidemic. Not long after the epidemic begins, her four-year-old brother catches polio, and later, so does she. This story is a great example of the disease polio because it talks about her brother using an iron lung and about how the disease spread like wildfire (Baugh, Alex). Another story is The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks. In this story it talks about how a boy named Ace has been crippled by polio and has to learn to live with it. This is another good example because polio is a crippling disease and many people were paralyzed or crippled by it ("THE BIG DIPPER MARATHON by Jerome Brooks | Kirkus Reviews"). Another example is Close to Home by Lydia Weaver. This story tells about a girl named Betsey who lives in the middle of a polio epidemic and tries to stay away from it while many attempt to find a vaccine ("Close to Home : A Story of the Polio
When the topic polio is brought up, most people have very little knowledge about it. Some have heard that Franklin D. Roosevelt had it. Some even know that you can be paralyzed from. But, most only know the basic facts. Polio was a disease that spread all through the United States in the 1950s and 1960s crippling, paralyzing, and killing many people and also played a role in many novels including Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks, and Close to Home by Lydia Weaver (Gautam, Kul)(Baugh, Alex)("THE BIG DIPPER MARATHON by Jerome Brooks | Kirkus Reviews")(“Close to Home : A Story of the Polio Epidemic").
“(Polio is) a serious disease that affects the nerves of the spine and often makes a person permanently unable to move particular muscles.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). So, in easier terms, polio (or Poliomyelitis) is a disease that can paralyze people. Although …show more content…
One example is the story Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter. This story is about a girl named Ann Fay is living in the midst of a polio epidemic. Not long after the epidemic begins, her four-year-old brother catches polio, and later, so does she. This story is a great example of the disease polio because it talks about her brother using an iron lung and about how the disease spread like wildfire (Baugh, Alex). Another story is The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks. In this story it talks about how a boy named Ace has been crippled by polio and has to learn to live with it. This is another good example because polio is a crippling disease and many people were paralyzed or crippled by it ("THE BIG DIPPER MARATHON by Jerome Brooks | Kirkus Reviews"). Another example is Close to Home by Lydia Weaver. This story tells about a girl named Betsey who lives in the middle of a polio epidemic and tries to stay away from it while many attempt to find a vaccine ("Close to Home : A Story of the Polio