Vaccinated Book Reflection

My initial impulse when confronted with the prompt to select a piece of work that influenced your view of the world was to think of the book that inspired my career choices. Vaccinated by Paul Offit is about a man by the name of Maurice Hilleman who invented many of today's widely used vaccines and saved millions of lives with his vaccinations. It was not only Hilleman's work, but the way in which he preformed his work – testing on himself and allowing others to present his work if it meant his vaccines would be more readily accepted – that inspired me to investigate more into the world of virology. This book changed the course of my life and helped me to find my passion. Despite all of that, the more I considered what I would write, the more
The story is told from the point of view of Death. I would not say that this book was one of my favorites, I can list quite a few more that I would value above The Book Thief, but when thinking about what book changed my views the most, this book was persistent. Throughout the book, we see Liesel through the eyes of Death, how he encountered her because of the dead around her. The very premise of the book was startling, but it was the various observations made throughout the book that stayed with me long after I was done
In truth, I could say everything does. Every exposure a person has changes them. I'm never the same person I was the day before. Every piece of media I consume, every experience I have refines my thinking. I gain perspective, understanding, or knowledge from everything I consume. It is rare, however, that one book changes a person as much as The Book Thief changed me, made me reconsider and analyze a lot about my life and others. It helped me to appreciate a lot of things and previously I had not, and that is only the conscience effect that it had. I am always grateful to find something that challenges me, something I can learn something from; whether it be about myself or the world as a