Commentary On Fever 1793 By Laurie Halse Anderson

According to gilderlehrman.org, 5,000 people died because of the disease known as Yellow Fever. Matilda, or Mattie, was one of those people who got sick, and she tells us about how it is to have Yellow Fever. Yellow Fever is a fatal disease that makes the victim have various symptoms, such as yellow tinted skin, vomit, headache, nausea, and many more terrible symptoms. This is the reason I believe that the main theme in Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is suffering. One way Fever, 1793 shows this theme is through sickness.

The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis proved to be fatal, killing almost all who got infected. The disease traveled up from New Orleans infecting and killing many on its way. Memphis was going through reconstruction and was becoming the center for merchants and travelers. Furthermore, Memphis began to become overly populated only increasing the devastation that would be caused by the yellow fever. This was a confusing period were even medical professionals did not know where the disease came from or how they could to stop it. The epidemic caused panic and challenged the state government of Tennessee and made changes to it that are still in effect today.

In the book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson the character, Matilda Cook, who is also known as Mattie, is a fourteen-year-old girl, who lives with her family above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Her family consist of her mom, grandfather, a parrot named King George, and her orange cat named Silas. She goes through an emotional journey because she had to handle lots of things on her own, and deal with situations she has never thought would come upon her. However, at the same time she goes through a physical journey because the way she acts and thinks changes throughout the story. Also, she loses the stubbornness that she had at the beginning of the novel and gained maturity throughout her journey.

Fever: 1793 by Laurie Halsey Anderson is told from the perspective of Mattie Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. She lives with her cold-hearted Mother, her aging Grandfather, a Revolutionary War veteran with a parrot named King George. There’s also Eliza, a free black woman who works at the Cook Coffeehouse and Nathaniel, a charming guy Mattie likes. It starts out as yellow fever spreads around with the punishing heat. It’s killing many people, such as Polly, their often lazy servant girl. “Mother” as Mattie calls her is being very protective with the fever spreading around. In fact, people don’t really know what’s going on. As the fever got worse and people started realizing that

A water vessel packed full of refugees unwell with yellow fever, sluggish as a snail, sail over to Philadelphia in 1793. A sly fox, one lone mosquito bites one refugee and flies off to infect someone else and spread the illness... We have an epidemic! Now, the older, respected Philadelphia doctors fought with the newcomer French doctors from Haiti over which was the genuine treatment to cure a patient infected with yellow fever. Their ideas were all very disparate, but both had a few little similar characteristics. Still, with all their efforts, by the time the fever died, 2,000 to 5,000 people had become deceased.

Introduction: Over time we come to realize a lot of things we have to live life with right under our nose and right at our door step. one of the worst and on going things we have to deal with are Viruses. there are a wide range of different types of viruses, from ones that can kill you ,to ones that we don't even know we have, some are contagious , and some are not, and also the dreaded air borne viruses. One virus that is not commonly mentioned is Valley Fever.

The book Fever 1793 is about a girl named Matilda. She and her mother lived alone above a coffee house in Philadelphia. A lot of people in the city were dying from a horrible disease called yellow fever. Matilda's mother runs the coffee house. I told his father was a carpenter and built the coffee house in 1783 after the war. He died just two months after the coffee house was finished. He fell off a ladder and broke his neck. That's all it was only four years old when her father died. Matilda's mother had a helper name Eliza who cooked in the kitchen. Everyone was waiting for poly Matilda's best friend to come to the coffee house. She was very late. But she wasn't just simply late. She was dead. Polly had taken the fever and died in her bed

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.

Eventually Mattie gets the illness and she starts to feel dizzy and sick, then eventually everything goes black. Mattie soon wakes up in a hospital bed in Bush Hill. The doctor’s don’t believe in getting blood from their patients to cure them. Instead the Dr, Benjamin Rush recommends rest an food. Once Mattie recovers from the illness, They head back to the city and when they get to the coffee house, it was ransacked and destroyed by thieves. Mattie does her best to provide food for herself and her grandfather. The night after Mattie was sleeping downstairs robbers came from the window and injured Mattie’s grandfather. He died right beside of her and Mattie is completely alone now and is devastated. After Mattie sees her grandfather being buried she wanders around Philadelphia, and finds an orphan name Nell. And Nell lost her mother, which Mattie takes care of Nell. And Mattie tracks down to find any relatives that know Nell, and she found Eliza one of Mattie’s best friends. Then when Eliza takes Mattie and Nell to her brother’s house, Eliza brother twins get the fever, and so does Nell. Later on Mattie’s mother returns to the city and they’re reunited at last from

The fever was consuming Philadelphia. Thousands of people were killed. My name is Elizabeth Brown sister of Clara and Ida Brown, we three are physicians coming over from England. We have arrived in Philly and we are volunteering to help out in Bush Hill but, there are other physicians from Philadelphia that rumor has it that they are actually killing people. There are similarities between treatments of the Philadelphia doctors and the French doctors aka us.

The novel, The Fever Code, by James Dashner, begins a few hundred years into the future where a barren, deserted and apocalyptic Earth is now a world dominated by infected-humans known as cranks. The Sun’s powerful flares have destroyed the world by, burning forests to a crisp, consumed rivers, lakes and oceans and has left cities in piles of ash, what is left of humanity has turned to violence to survive. A means of chaos and panic is now unleashed into the world. Despite the havoc outside, the reader journeys through a building known as W.I.C.K.E.D (World in Catastrophe Killzone Experimental Department). W.I.C.K.E.D is a medical facility who house immune children for experimental trials to figure out why they are resistant to the disease and the other population isn’t.

I found myself to be quite intrigued by the fact it was set place so long ago - 224 years ago. The adventure novel Fever 1793 tells the story of a girl named Matilda Cook, fighting to survive a severe epidemic: yellow fever. At the age of 13, Mattie must use prior knowledge in order to battle through challenges

The history of smallpox goes back for thousands of years. It is thought to have appeared as much as 10,000 years ago and since then, it has claimed the lives of millions of people, many of whom have been famous figures in history. After a vaccine was discovered in 1796, countries throughout the world began the fight to eradicate the disease. This fight was won in 1980 as a result of the international effort headed by the World Health Organization. Today, smallpox is no longer a threat in nature but the virus is still stored in labs, from which a biological weapon could be made.

Matilda Cook “little Mattie” is a daughter of a coffee shop owner. She’s a fourteen- year- old girl who works for her widowed mother. She works with a girl named Polly and a kitchen cook Eliza, a woman from the Free African Society. Mattie always tries to make her family’s coffee shop the finest in Philadelphia. In this book, she encounters a monster known as yellow fever. It kills many innocent people and gives sorrow to those who are left. Mattie has to learn how to survive this horrible

In Fever, 1793, people can suffer in so many ways: physically, yes, but also emotionally. But, while pain and suffering are supremely terrible, the people in Fever 1793 must cope with this terrible disease that brings death, loss, and even theft. According to Fever 1793 page 33 “I miss her. I didn’t even get to say good-bye.” Mattie was talking about Polly, one of her best friends who was killed by the Fever. Polly’s death was very sudden, therefore it caused many citizens to worry about the fever. On page 71 in Fever 1793 “Rowley, the imposter. Autumnal fever indeed. Your mother has yellow fever. There’s no doubt at all.” When Mattie found out that her mother had yellow fever, this shocked her at first, causing her to have mental suffering.