Brief Summary Of Fever 1793

In the novel Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson there is a lot of conflicts. I believe conflict is a situation or problem that one character or more are facing. These conflicts are the struggles of the fever, having to deal with the Ogilvies, and Mattie facing herself. Mattie’s perseverance while facing the challenges of getting through the fever, facing the Ogilvies, and facing herself and her doubts helped lead her from childhood to adulthood.

Soon after being deserted on the road, grandfather comes down with a summer grippe and becomes helpless. Mattie then needs to take care of them both by finding food and water. This shows responsibility because she not only had to take care of herself, but of her grandfather too with no help from anyone, and no one to tell her what to do.

As soon as the fever involved Mattie’s mother, Grandfather was ordered to take Mattie somewhere safe. During their travel, Mattie had noticed that grandfather was getting ill. She was to find each of them food and to take care of them both. Since Grandfather was ill they could not leave Philadelphia, Mattie was to take care of Grandfather while he was sick. “ ‘Here.’ I fumbled with the canteen. ‘You need same water. You’ll feel much better’ “(Anderson 86). Grandfather had helped Mattie become independent and help her take care of him. He had helped her become more independent because he taught her how to depend on herself and to be braver because of his actions.

Philadelphia 1793, Philadelphia was one of the most most populated places in the world with 50,000 people in it. Philadelphia started having issues like yellow fever until fever victims started showing results of what happens when you get the sickness, soon people left the cities to be close to how many people left it was approximately 20,000 people. With people leaving faster and faster per day since people were dying, people got scared I would to, since at the end of the day over 5,000 people died.

Mattie has gone through during Yellow Fever . Some examples from the book Yellow Fever seventeen ninety three are on chapter 11 and 12, it says that the farmer threw me and grandfather off and the wagon. This is an example of how Mattie has struggled because the driver of the wagon was leaving them on the road with no food and water so they. Have to get it for

Throughout the course of the novel, the reader witnesses Mattie evolve from a self-absorbed 14-year-old girl to an aspiring young adult. These changes seen in her happen simply because she has no other choice considering the circumstances she is put in. During the year of the fever epidemic, Mattie’s stages of growth and development into a responsible young women are made evident through her experiences. In the beginning, we see “Teenager Mattie”. Mattie is kind of mean to her mother, sleeps in late, and when given some responsibilities, she usually has to be badgered into performing them.

In Fever, Mattie was trying to help her mom get better from the fever but at first they wouldn't let her near her mom because her Mother was trying to get her away from her because of the fever. Mattie did a lot for her Mother when they let her near her Mother to take care of her. Mattie would wash, her feed, and etc for Mother. Then her Grandfather and Mattie were going to go to the Ludingtons but never made it. Near the end of the book Mattie was running the Coffee House while her Mother was away. Mattie's Mother came back to the Coffee House really weak. Mattie helped her Mother with the Coffee

It’s clear to see that 1793 has been a rough year for America and all of the world. France has lost its King, Europe is at war, and America has suffered an epidemic that has claimed more than 5,000 people. It's so peculiar that the year went so bad, but started so well when we touched the heavens.

The vulnerable people of Philadelphia were surrounded by endurable humidity and heat, during the terrible epidemic in the summer of 1793. Philadelphia had faced, many fever infected mosquitoes, and dry weather causing the historical event from the book Fever 1793. When reading this book, I learned many devastating and almost unreal historical facts about the yellow fever outbreak in 1793 which include the statistics, life during fever and symptoms, and lastly, cures for the fever. These serious and unpleasant facts are unbelievably real and they should be shared.

Laurie Halse Anderson masterfully tells the story of Mattie Cook and her family’s struggles though the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. While Mattie and her family are fictional characters, the epidemic which struck Philadelphia was quite real. Based on what I have read so far in the novel, Fever 18793, I believe it is reasonable to infer that Matte’s mother will die or may even be dead already, but Mattie does not know it yet Lucille, Mattie’s mother, definitely has yellow fever.In Chapter 10, Dr. Kerr visits Mattie’s mother and tells her, “Autumnal fever indeed. Your mother has yellow fever. There’s no double at all” (Anderson 71). The reader clearly knows that yellow fever has proven deadly for many Philadelphia

Cooperation is a big part of our lives. If we did not have cooperation we would all be at war, thinking our own opinion was correct. In Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, Mattie the main character survives fever while cooperating with not only people but anything of natural disasters, and in the end of the book every character changed tremendously, physically and mentally. In the book the author shows cooperation through what fever itself serves them, also Eliza, Mattie, Nell, and the twins show the most cooperation throughout the book.

Yellow Fever, an epidemic that broke out in 1793. The people treating this disease was the doctors from Philadelphia and France. And what was happening is that this yellow fever was being treated. Now you this all started in 1793 when yellow fever started breaking out worse than ever. Now where this is happening was in Philadelphia. This happened is because of those pesky infected mosquito. This happened because with the infected mosquito came infected refuges. The worst part is trying to figure out how many people died because no one really knows exactly how many people died. We know it’s somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 and it’s so sad what happened and that back then we didn’t know enough about this to really help

"As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story- to tackle different characters with different issues, " said Eric Jerome Dicky. Mattie, from Fever 1793, is a fourteen year old girl in the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793. She lives in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather. Throughout the novel Mattie experiences many heart-aches and death, unlike Rachel. Rachel, from "Eleven," is a ten year old girl turning eleven and she is not happy about it. She lives in a modern time period with her family. In the short story Rachel experiences a rough time in her classroom. Mattie, from the novel Fever 1793 and Rachel, from the short story "Eleven," are two similar girls with two different circumstances.

This book is narrated by a fourteen year old girl named Matilda, who goes by the nickname “Mattie.” She is living in Philadelphia during the year 1793, when the horrible yellow fever epidemic hits the area. Matilda lives with her mother and grandfather. Her father had passed away due to a ladder accident. The loss of her husband was very hard on Matilda’s mother making her turn cold. The family owns and runs a coffee house with the help of Eliza a free black women who cooks and Polly the servant girl. One day when Polly didn’t show up for work they assume she was secretly watching her crush Matthew work in the blacksmith garage. However when Matilda's mother goes out she finds out that Polly had not just been late to work, she had passed away.

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