Fever 1793 Quotes

In the book “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson, Philadelphia is made victim of the Yellow Fever in August of the year 1793.The book is written from the point of view of a young girl, Matilda Cook, who is the protagonist of this long journey. Having been caught on from mosquitoes, the Yellow Fever as the antagonist in the book makes Matilda, or Mattie, fighting in a conflict of Man VS Nature. As Mattie is battling the Fever and the burden of those it affects, she also goes through changes throughout the novel. From running the household errands on her own, to picking up and taking care of a poor child off the street; at only the age of fourteen, Mattie possesses several character traits that makes this point so. These traits include both

All three of these themes really helps you go in depth into the story. You realize how many times each of these pop up, which events they popped up in, and how important those events even were. We see you never know the worth of water until the well is dry with Sal as well as Phoebe, maybe even Mrs.Cadaver. When Sal’s mom leaves because she feels rotten in comparison to Sal’s father, we find this is a major event because we now have an insight as to why she left, she didn’t feel perfect, even though she was only human. Sal accepting her mother death was a terrible thing in her life, yet she had to and was also a key event in the story. These themes can all easily be integrated into our modern day society. Such as when you lose a relative, you have to accept their death even if you desperately don’t want to or when said family member dies you don’t realize how much they mean to you. Or with all the stereotypes and expectations we sometimes forget that we’re all only human. Tell people close to you you love them, you’ll never know when you’ll lose them. Make sure they know you appreciate them, but most of all, always know that nobody’s

In the story Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson the main character, Matilda, has to live a normal life with dangers throughout. In the beginning, Mattie was stranded in the middle of nowhere with no food or water. Near the middle, Mattie returned to the empty coffeehouse with everything stolen and broken. At the end, Mattie's searches the lifeless streets for her long lost friend. Matilda has undergone many changes throughout the novel that have helped her survive. For example, Mattie has become wiser, hardworking, and independent.

Another example of theme is in the end of the book. This is when Micheal came back to save all of his friends. ‘ “Hatch is about to hurt our friends, and I need to stop him” ’

Theme is the message of the story that the author wants the reader to take away from the story. In the short story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto. The theme is don’t pretend to be someone you are not. For example, Mr.Bueller remembers his story about how he tried to impress his girlfriend by renting different cars every time they had a date. This led to him to running out of money. He pretended to be someone he was not. Victor also tried to be someone he was not by pretending to know how to speak French fluently to impress his crush, Teresa. Luckily, no one pointed out that VIctor didn’t know French, so he wasn’t embarrassed in front of the whole class, including Teresa.

At the beginning of the book, there is a part that starts the story and how it affects them later in their lives. When Raina races against her friends to go home, she trips and knocks out her two front teeth. This shows me the theme of how all things, and even things that are meant to be fun or enjoyable may have some weird/terrible consequences. It also shows us how the relationship between her and her friends in another scene in the beginning of the story is that I saw for the theme friendship was when Raina came back to school the day after her teeth were knocked out and people were wondering how was her and if she was okay. Then more people come over and then they ask her if she saw the blood and how much blood there was and if Raina cried. This shows that her friends do not care for her as much and would rather hear Raina’s story from a different side than her own. A theme that seems great for the both scenes that work together is most people

Life has up's and down's but you can get through because people come together to help. For instance, in the book Fever, 1793, the Free African Society went around to help the yellow fever victims. The doctors thought the Africans were immune to the disease because hardly any Africans died. When people come together, like the Africans helping the victims, you can get through it. You can get through it when people come together, because everyone starts working together instead of avoiding the

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.” The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls has very important life lessons that will teach everyone to laugh at tragedies sometimes. In the memoir, one will learn these and accept them. There will be a lot of struggles thrown life’s way, but everyone will find a way to get through it and realize it makes one who they are.

Challenges and obstacles are everywhere, and everyday people find ways to overcome them all. They are what keep someone motivated to continue trying until they reached their goal. As in “The Circuit,” “from the Grapes of Wrath,” and “Against the Odds.”, they show an example of how they did it. Individuals surpass hardships by persevering to make progress piece by piece.

The theme no matter the situation, there is a reason so make the most of it.T represents my life, and others on many levels. Most students dislike waking up for school, and are forced to go. I dislike going to school, but everyday I have to tell myself to work hard and make school better. The other theme I chose from The Maze Runner is extremely similar to the other theme, accept instead of making the most of a bad situation, this theme tells me to make the most of the opportunity’s in the bad situation. This applies to my life, because I'm in school which is not necessarily a bad situation but still take advantage of the opportunity to learn. Both of the themes can be applied to everyday life, and they can help as motivation to move forward.

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.

"Never Give Up" and remember the beginning is always the hardest. Imagine yourself in the middle of a world wide sickness...deadly sickness. Your mother is in horrid condition, taken from the sickness of which she now helpless. You have feed,clothe,bath, and ect to help her, would you help her? Or. Send off to a place better than the horrid acts of this world? Or just think leaving her with a doctor who wants to drain blood from her every week and just a maid. In the book Fever, 1793 it will show you to never give up. This theme is expressed through a character named Mattie and other family members. Philadelphia is hit with a horrid fever...called yellow fever. It shows no matter what gets thrown at you keep going and never give up! Fever, 1793, is a book by Laurie Halse Anderson, and has many themes, and one of the themes in the story is to Never Give Up.

In the historical fiction novel, Fever 1793, the citizens of Philadelphia face a great deal of problems. They were confronted by the horrid disease, Yellow Fever. They faced robbers in their homes. They faced starvation. They were trapped in a situation with only one real cure-frost. The only problem was, it was summer, and frost didn’t come until winter. This story focuses on Matilda Cook, or Mattie for short, and how she encountered all of the dangers that were listed. Mattie had no idea what was about to change her life forever.

The third theme is death; in her final hours, Granny is forced to evaluate her life and how she has lived it. Early in the story she seems to be at peace with it, “she had spent so much time preparing for death there was no need for bringing it up again.” The truth is she is struggling with death. She is too weak to get out of bed, yet denies the fact that she is truly ill. The story ends with her blowing out the light, which leads the reader to understand how her life has come to an end.

This passage shows a deeper meaning to women and domesticity. Throughout “Roman Fever”, there is a huge emphasis on women knitting and we often find the women in this story multitasking with knitting and talking. Knitting is a household activity that women do on their leisure time. The passage above is the second paragraph in this short story and therefore, already stresses the action of women knitting in the household. In the first sentence of this passage, we read, “…let's leave the young things to their knitting.” This is referring to Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley, which we find multiple times throughout the story knitting. This gives the reader the impression that women have resorted to knitting because society views them not equipped to do