You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln. This can relate to Matilda by how she wasn't afraid to be responsible and take care of problems. The theme responsibility is explored through Fever 1793 by how she took care of her mom, her grandfather, and herself.
The 1st way she was responsible in Fever 1793 was how she took care of her mom while the mom was suffering from yellow fever. Matilda was able to calm her mother(Lucille) down while Lucille was coughing up blood, which if she didn’t Lucille might have died. Matilda also calmed Lucille down when Lucille kept screaming at Matilda to leave, but Matilda stayed relaxed and didn’t panic as someone thoughtless or. In conclusion, The theme of responsibility can be seen in “Fever 1793 from how Matilda was she dealt with her mother while the mother was severely ill.
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I could infer this from how the grandfather told Matilda when he was nearing death. “You’re a fighter no doubt about that.” being a fighter is a quality that someone that is mature and reliable would have. To add to that when Matilda was with her granddad and the grandfather fell on the ground Matilda stayed calm and helped him get back to an adequate level of stability. She was able to do this while she also had yellow fever, so to handle her grandfather's health issues while having difficulties of her own is another sign of strength and responsibility. This is another way the theme of responsibility was explored in “Fever
D1 - “The 1300s Bubonic Plague epidemic changed the path of world history”: agree/disagree, explain, then argue.
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.
Selected Text: Fever of 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. (2009)
In the historical fiction Fever 1793 by Laurie Hale’s Anderson, the main theme is perseverance.
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.
The Plague or ¨Black Death¨ was a virus that spread across Europe killing about 60% of the population. The plague's origin was at the time unknown and this brought about many questions. At this time, people did not have basic necessities such as proper hygiene and medicine. Therefore there was fear, superstitions as well as conspiracy, and there were also some who realized that they could gain from the deaths of those around them.
Ann Becker the author of the article “Smallpox in Washington's Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease During the American Revolutionary War,” discusses in her article of the disease Small Pox affected the how the militaries powers while they fought during the American Revolutionary War. Becker explains how during the war nearly took out a large population of the American military because so many soldiers were impacted by the disease. This then affected how the fought during war. Becker states that the virus was extremely deadly and contagious; she stated “It was the most deforming and lethal of the plague-like epidemics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” The soldiers who suffered through this disease, rarely got over it, and
During the Revolutionary War, one of the main fears were not the enemies bullets, but fear of disease. One of the major viruses that people had to fear was smallpox. The continental army had more to fear than the British in the fact that British had been immunized, and the continental army had not. This was only the beginning of the problems from the smallpox epidemic that broke out in America.
The stories of Fever 1793 and Copper Sun on the surface do not demonstrate any similarities, but deeper into the meanings of both stories show us otherwise. Copper Sun is the story of Amari, a young tribal girl in africa stolen from her homeland to become a slave. She endures countless acts of cruelty, is subjected to pain and suffering, and is forced to fight for not only her freedom- but her life. The themes in this novel continue to delve deeper into the cruel reality of the human mind, but also the inner strength of the human spirit. Fever 1793 is the story of Mattie, living around the same time period. She is white, so she is not subjected to the same pain Amari has been. Initially, at least. Deeper into the novel as the flow of time progresses, Mattie too begins to accept the cold reality of life. Mattie experiences a deadly fever in her city that grips not only her, but members of her family. Since this disease is widespread and very lethal, people
The American Revolutionary War was a "global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies which declared independence as the United States of America." The American Revolution is also known as the Revolutionary war.
One theme that arises in Fever 1793 is people will do the right thing even if they know the risk. For instance, Eliza has joined the Free African American Society and is helping fever victims because Dr. Rush incorrectly concluded that African Americans could not catch yellow fever. Now Eliza has a life or death risk that she must
Nikolette Domann Domann 1 Mr. Bills 27 February, 2017 Pain and Suffering in “Fever 1793” In today's world, although sickness is still around, it's more contained because we have advances in technology. Worrying about getting sick, isn't a problem as much as it used to be. Yet when illness and disease struck Philadelphia in 1793. Mattie Cook struggles to stay happy in a universe full of sadness.
Rickettsia rickettsii is the small, aerobic gram-negative bacterium that is the cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans (and other vertebrates). They are obligate, intracellular bacteria that range in size form 0.2x0.5 µm to 0.3x2.0µm. Rickettsia belong to the phylum alpha-protobacteria, which are capable of growing in low levels of nutrients, and have a long generation time relative to other gram negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli. In humans rickettsiae preferentially reside in the nucleus or cytoplasm of cells lining small to medium size blood vessels.
Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that is spread by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. These bacteria remain in a dormant state primarily in a rat flea’s foregut. Once the flea has bitten a victim it regurgitates the contents in its foregut into the bite location. Once the bacterium has entered into a mammal’s warm body it begins to reproduce and spread throughout the mammal’s body. The reproduction of this bacterium creates large painful swollen lymph nodes which are called buboes. Once these buboes get large enough they begin to ooze infected body fluid so that any contact between an infected person and a healthy person will facilitate the spread of this disease. (The Mayo Clinic Staff, 2012)
There is a certin unsureness in the circulation and communication of information in A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This instability of the language in this proto-novel is caused by the author citing two sides to every point or statement he makes causing contradictions. On top of this Defoe repeats the same points throughout the entire text. This uncertainty helps to make the reader believe the writing is an actual journal as opposed to an edited, actual non-fiction.