Uncle Tungsten

Oliver W. Sacks was a young, curious boy who grew up just before the Second World War. He was brought up in a scientific world, for science, was most common profession in his entire family, up to three generations before him (and he had a lot of relatives). The book Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks is an autobiography about his own chemical childhood. It explains all of his different scientific obsessions he had as a boy, and how he came about finding all the information he did on them. He has done everything from his own chemical testing (which he did in his own personal lab), to hands on marine biology at Millport in high school. Oliver Sacks uses setting, character, and conflict to support the theme that you must do what you love to do, to live life to the fullest, and without practicing what intrigues or interests you, yo

This section definitely shows that Oliver Sacks enjoyed living in this mansion of a house. This home, was everything that Oliver knew as a child, because everything he ever needed as a child was there for him. There were so many extra rooms in the house, distant relatives, or just travelers would often stay in there. At one point, he took over one of the many rooms that was not being used and turned it into a personal lab, where he kept all of his chemicals, and did most of work. It became a home inside a home for him. This house housed and fueled some of his most precious, younger days, experiences and experiments. The next description of Sack’s house in the middle of the war, during the occasional holiday breaks at the much-despised Braefield School.

The conflict constructed in this story develops the theme to always follow your dreams, even if not officially, always give your best shot at completing them.

"I grew up... in a huge, rambling Edwardian house in northwest London... Certain rooms in the house had a magical or sacred quality, perhaps my parents’ surgery...with its bottles of medicine...Another sacred room was the library, which, in the evenings at least, was especially my father’s domain... I especially liked crawling into the triangular cupboard under the stairs...[and] A forbidden area was the attic, which was gigantic... We had meals in the breakfast room next to the kitchen..." (Pg. 11-14)

"The windows were all hung with heavy blackout curtains; the inner front door with the colored glass I had loved to look through, had been blown out by a bomb blast...the garden...was changed almost beyond recognition; the old gardening shed had been replaced by an Anderson shelter...the house seemed lonely and cold." (Pg. 22,28)

"My questions were endless, and touched on everything, though they tended to circle around, again and again, to my obsession, the metals... I could scarcely sleep for excitement the night after seeing the periodic table... The next

Some topics in this essay:
Oliver Sacks, Braefield Oliver, Medical School, Braefield School, Uncle Dave, Tungstalite Uncle’s, World War, Uncle Tungsten, oliver sacks, sacks setting, own chemical, oliver sacks setting, theme love, medical school, , love live life, fullest practicing, theme follow, follow dreams, conflict support theme, practicing intrigues, support theme love, theme love live, live life,