5/13/2023 0 Comments Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This also serves as contrast to Roselle’s unshakable calm and heroism in the ensuing tragedy to come. Roselle is terrified of an approaching thunderstorm, and this helps the reader empathize with her as an animal with feelings and fears. In chapter 1, the authors show Hingson and Roselle at home the evening before the hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center. Hingson’s parents refused to treat their son as a liability, and Hingson learned to be self-sufficient in a world that saw him as handicapped. ![]() Hingson and co-writer Susy Flory, open the book with a history of the disease called retinopathy of prematurity that blinded thousands of premature babies in the 1940s and early 1950s. Thunder Dog is the riveting account of their escape from death. Hingson, blind from infancy due to a medical procedure used to provide oxygen to premature babies, his guide dog, Roselle, and a small group of employees descended Stairwell B in a race to get out of the building before it collapsed. Michael Hingson was working on the 78th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center on Septemwhen American Airlines Flight 11 flew into floors 93 through 99 of the building. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2011. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero. ![]()
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