Phineas Gage was an innocent rail worker who one day was shot in the head. After that, he becomes a person who travels from place to see how he is still alive.I think the interesting part is that he was still alive after what happened and was similar to his old self and made a bit, not very smart decisions but he. Phineas' behavior is similar to that of an adolescent. He has bad decision-making because his brain has to make a new spot in different parts of his brain. After all, the brain that he had did not work in the section he needed so other parts of the brain would take care of those parts. After Phineas’ accident, he acts differently to an adolescent.“Phineas is like a small child who says he is running away from home after lunch and then comes up with a new idea over his sandwich.” (Paragraph 33). This shows that …show more content…
Adsloncets also perish more. After Phineas’s accident, he acted differently, which is from an adolescent brain because they were different.’’Paragraph #). Phineas Gage suggests that we are human because our frontal lobes are set up so we can get along with other humans. We are “hard-wired” to be sociable. When we lose that ability, we end up like Phineas. His closest companion was an iron rod.’’ This shows that people act normally when they walk, but when Phineas is walking around he acts differently—in adolescents than in adults. Society stereotypes adolescents, particularly adolescent boys, as reckless risk-takers. But is it as simple as this? Do all adolescents take risks? In some contexts, adolescents avoid risk-taking. Teachers often have to encourage young people to ask or answer questions in class, guess an answer in a text, and try new This shows that boys with adolescent brains are not the smarties when it comes to making decisions because their brains are not fully developed Phineas Gage was an innocent road rail worker who one day was shot in the head. After that,