The Year Without Summer Inspired Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein

i found myself wondering again what drives this sort of innevative counter thrust in the teeth of catastrophe. Social scientists tried to chart the different ways in which calamities teach us lessons. For one thing, trouble breaks us out of our routines, and so we try an approach that we should have been embracing all along. But it happens on a grander, graver scale, too. When hurricane katrina devast ed new orleans, many survivors were turned upside down. And surprisingly, their test scores fell at first but after three years they were actually doing better than before.