Summary Of Mattie's Fight

In the beginning Grandfather refuses to believe there is a fever until it hit them mother falls ill and they are forced to flee Mattie try’s to stay but mother and grandfather and Eliza force her to go this kills Mattie. But she must go. Grandfather finds a wagon but soon they get kicked off. Mattie finds food but soon realizes that they need more then she falls ill. Mattie wakes in bush hill ( a hospital for the ones with fever) She insists on leaving but is not well enough to go.

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's costs would justify itself.

In Takedown, Darren is released from juvie and what his revenge on Diamond Tony, aka drug lord. He works as a CI for the police to infiltrate Diamond operation. While this is happening, he falls for a girl named Jessica and a turf war breaks out against Diamond Tony and the Blood. Now Darren has to protect Jessica and if he can, take down Tony. What I like about this book was as I read, I can imagine the action scene like in a movie. Going deeper into the book, it gets more intense and plot twist begins to occur. One thing I dislike about this book is the beginning of it, it wasn’t great to read and get my attention. It talks about school and trying to get back to his daily life after he came back from juvie. I would recommend this

The next major event takes place just after the gang rides away, leaving Mattie alone with Chaney. He decides the gang will never return for him and is considering killing her to keep her silent. She throws hot water into his face and tries to run into the trees and get away, but he catches her. He starts to beat her, when the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf announces his presence and for Chaney to drop his gun and let her go. He then tells her that Rooster is down below "watching the front door" in the direction the gang is headed.

It is apparent that Mattie loves her mother through her actions when mother faints. Mattie is told to leave the room and be useful, but Mattie wants to stay to help her mother. “I wanted to stay and watch over her…” (Anderson 64)

She is very good with children and helps support Taylor as a single mother with Turtle. Mattie is Taylor’s boss at the tire repair shop and she is very good with children. On page 43 when Taylor first met Mattie, Mattie offers to get crackers for Turtle. “She handed Turtle a peanut butter cracker, which she grabbed with both hands. It broke to smithereens, and she got such big sad eyes I thought she was going to cry. ‘It’s all right, honey,’ Mattie said. ‘You put that one in your mouth and I’ll give you another one.’ Turtle did. I was amazed […] Mattie was clearly accustomed to dealing with kids” (Kingsolver, 48). Mattie is very hospitable and helpful to Taylor. Even though she just met her, she already offers Turtle food and is very gentle with her. The way Turtle reacts to Mattie shows the reader just how comforting she is to Turtle. Taylor is very grateful for Mattie’s help and she becomes a role model for Taylor that she needs as she tries to become an adoptive mother for Turtle. Her natural maternal characteristics encourage Taylor to follow in Mattie’s footsteps and try to be the best caretaker she can be without any

It's the way your father begun, and I was warned of it when I took you, and I tried to keep my things where you couldn't get at 'em-and now you've took from me the one I cared for most of all” Mattie came between Ethan and Zeena's marriage. Despite the marriage being not the best and basically already broken and gone. It was still a marriage good or bad. Even though she may not have meant to get feelings for Ethan, when she realized she did have feeling she didn't ignore them and leave. She stayed and let it play out. Mattie's suffering was that she became paralyzed, After her and Ethan's accident. A daily reminder of the choices she made to come between a marriage and go behind her cousins back.

Mattie had gone thru a lot of tragic events thru the epidemic. For example, the loss of Mattie’s friend Polly. This is the first tragic event that happened to mattie during the epidemic. Polly was Mattie’s best friend and had worked with her at the coffeehouse. The day when Polly had died, the news came from Polly’s mother. When polly’s mother was about to explain what happened , she had collapsed to the ground and told mattie that polly is dead. “Matilda, Polly is dead”(Anderson 13). Polly was the one of the first fever victims during the epidemic.

Mattie, as a young, happy soul, finds the bleak life of Starkfield nearly unbearable. Zeena allows the girl an occasional night on the town to escape from the dreary, repetitive life she is not accustomed to. As a girl who was never taught the basics of housekeeping and physical labor, Mattie struggles to not only keep up with her chores, but to also be happy. As the first chapter opens, Ethan is revealed walking to pick his wife’s cousin up from a dance, the reader can see Mattie being herself; full of life and joy. As the epilogue unfolds, the reader sees Mattie as an aging, crippled woman.

Mattie’s change in attitude represents the toll of financial and moral obligations of the fortuneless, often prohibiting them from pursuing their interests. When Mattie Silver, coming from a more prosperous background, first arrives at Starkfield to work for the Frome couple, her curiosity and love of nature contrasted that of the rest of the working-class town. Afterwards she realizes the harshness of New England life through her attempted suicide with her love interest Ethan Frome that leaves her quadriplegic, she, like the other citizens, loses her passion. She suffered the consequences of pursuing a married man and performing incompetently as an indentured servant. She transforms into a character much like Ethan’s wife Zeena, sick and

It wasn’t until she finally went to her cousin’s house that she was given a real chance at a good life upon her. With Zeena being too sick to do all the house work she taught Mattie of how to take care of the house. Ethan’s kindness toward her made her feel like she mattered in the world and afterwards made her fall in love with him. Even though there was probably other choices than killing herself she felt the need for it since she was young and fell so deeply in love with Ethan and couldn’t be with him. I couldn’t blame Mattie for loving a man like Ethan since all his kindness made her felt like she was something in the world and just not a

This is a particularly eerie scene and you can see the discomfort on Mattie’s face as she enters the room and sees the corpses under their sheets, but this does not deter her from spending the night there. This scene incorporates Mattie’s tenacity along with the highlighted theme of dead bodies.

One morning, Mattie finds out that her friend Pollie died of a mysterious fever. Soon after, Mattie’s mother became gravely ill and forced Mattie and her grandfather out of the country to ensure they don't catch the disease. However, on their ride out of town they were suspected of having fever, so officer dropped them off on the side of the road. After their walk home began Mattie became ill and fainted. Shewoke up at a hospital in Bush Hill and as soon as she recovered they returned home. But Mattie discovered that her mother was nowhere to be found. That night robbers broke into Mattie’s home and killed her grandfather. Now all on her own, Mattie set off on a journey to find food. She soon finds an orphaned girl named Nell who becomes

Mattie is a determined young girl, but also a little naïve which makes her unintentionally funny. She shoes that she is very determined in her beliefs and decisions. One example of this is when she is talking to LaBoeuf about the journey and that he is not to come along with Rooster and her. She shoes that she is naïve when she is faced with ordinary situations. One example of this is in the book (Pg. 18-19) when she says “At the city police station we found two officers but they were having a fist fight and where not available for inquiries.” This shows that she is very determined yet still naïve.