Summary Of Setting And Time Period By Laurie H. Anderson

“If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? And if a girl was to seek her freedom, how could she do such a fool-headed thing, Especially a girl trapped in New York? (Isabel). In the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the author uses the protagonist’s traits, actions, and dialogue to help the reader understand how the main character, Isabel, changes throughout the story. Isabel’s actions and speech reveal that she goes from feeling scared and hopeless from being sold as a slave to becoming determined to obtain her freedom, finally she becomes brave and gains enough courage to run away from her abusive owners.

Strong. Independent. Smart. All describe Mattie Cook, the main character of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yellow fever rages throughout the colonies, and nobody can escape it, Mattie Cook faces hardships and worse as the yellow fever attacks her home city and the newly hatched America. Mattie faces near-death experiences, loved one’s deaths, and a lot more, changing her from a lazy and dependent little girl to a hard-working and independent young woman. Mattie changes because of some characteristics that have helped her survive the destructive and malicious yellow fever.

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel , Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia. Mattie goes throughout the city wondering where everyone is after yellow fever has spread. Then she finds a little girl that will help her with walking around and trying to stay calm. By using emotions and character development, Anderson creates the lesson that when you have someone special in your life, you should never take them for granted.

When students are bullied, they are encouraged to speak up about it to a teacher or some other adult; however, many do not, because they may think their cases are not important enough to be told, because no one will believe their stories, or because they are embarrassed by what happened. As these cases turn from simple bullying to a more severe event, this inability to speak up only increases. Laurie Halse Anderson shows this effect with being raped, as well as the emotional damage that goes with it. Through Melinda’s experiences in Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing reflects the time in which it was written, her views on teens and the adolescent years, and her early life.

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

During the colonial era, there were three groups of people with three varying political beliefs; the Patriots, the Loyalists, and the slaves. In the novel Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, she writes about how the term “Freedom and Liberty” meant something different to each of the groups. This liberating idea drove the different parties to act a certain way throughout the book. For example, the Patriots fought courageously against Britain even though they posed no threat whatsoever to them. The Loyalists, on the other hand, conquered entire Rebel cities to drown out the Patriots’ beliefs. Lastly, the slaves would act fearlessly and do things to spite their masters regardless of their political position. All in all, these diverse classes of

Freedom is something that all people have, to believe in what they want, follow who they want, and say what they want. But, long ago this was not allowed to people. In Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, you have Isabel and her life as a slave being in a world of 3 sides, the Patriots, the Loyalists and the slaves. She does not know what side she is on for they all have the pro’s and con’s, however she is a slave and her options sometimes get changed for both offers to each side can sometimes not do so well. First, Isabel says, “I was chained between two nations.”

Don’t take what you have for granted as disaster can strike at any moment. In “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson, Matilda lives with her Mom and Grandpa in their cafe. She doesn’t like her mom because she compares Matilda to her as a kid. When the Yellow Fever strikes, it throws everyone's life in jeopardy. As the fever gets worse, people start panicking and flee the city.

The book Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, shows that true strength is achieved by fighting for what you believe in. Isabel looks up to the memory of her father when he showed true strength to protect his family. When Isabel tries to show true strength to prove to herself that she is a lion she fails. When Isabel believes that she can save Ruth, Isabel achieves true strength. Isabel is not born with the true strength she shows later in the book; it is through struggle that Isabel attains it, just like her father, when it became necessary.

Jean Zimmerman wrote The Women of the House: How A Colonial She-Merchant Built A Mansion, A Fortune, And A Dynasty. Harcourt, Inc. published the book in 2006. The anthology has 338 pages of the actual book and 402 including the prologue and other notes. This nonfiction, hard-back paper book portrays women’s roles both within and outside of the home starting in the late seventeenth century and ending in the early nineteenth century.

In a young adult (YA) novel, it is very important for an author to capture the voice of a teenager. This is because a very important characteristic of YA literature is that the author can assume the voice of a teenager, or the voice of the audience of their literature. Laurie Halse Anderson does a good job of this throughout the novel, giving a reasonable summary of what life in high school could be for a freshman. While a freshman in high school may have trouble adjusting to life from eighth grade to ninth grade, Anderson does a good job of including incidents from Melinda’s past to show exactly what she’s trying to say through the novel. This high school feel is exactly what Anderson intended, as it showed just how horrible it could be to be a high school teenager, as they try to develop mentally and physically to find their identity.

Continuing the discussion of how the human is defined, using the example of representations of gender and sexuality, it is important to note Butler’s counterintuitive argument that understandings of human are produced through inaccurate representations. Butler believes that “For representation to convey the human, then, representation must not only fail, but it must show its failure”(Precariousness 144). Use of the word failure in this sentence somewhat misleads the reader. In this instance representations that “fail” could be said to be successes. Butler believes that “there is something unrepresentable that we nevertheless seek to represent, and that paradox must be retained in the representation we give”(Precarious Life 144).

The interpretation of texts varies from person to person. Each reader approaches a piece of writing with their own personal biases. These biases, based on factors such as societal influences or personal upbringing can have an effect on how readers assign meaning to words and actions. These differences in interpretation are one of the explanations of how a religious group can have so many different religions branching out from it despite following the same religious text. The words are all the same, it is what they mean to a person that is different. Although it is possible for any text to be up for debate, good examples of differences in analysis can be found in poetry. “The Landlady” by Margaret Atwood is very specific yet the descriptions provided of the landlady make the poem general enough to apply to any issue the reader may be facing. Someone facing issues such as poverty may find that the poem is relatable in its depiction of a landlady whereas someone with depression could find that the landlady is a personification of depression.

Atwood continually sets human progress against the wild encompassing it and society against the brutality from which it emerged. She views these resistances as a portion of the characterizing standards of Canadian writing. They likewise give a representation to the divisions inside the human identity. Society, progress, and culture speak to the sound, contained side of humankind, while the wild backwoods speaks to the precise inverse: the unreasonable, antiquated, and bodily driving forces that exist in each living being. In the Animals in That Country, Atwood sensationalizes the acculturated inclination to disregard the ferocity hiding directly finished the skyline: in "Dynamic Insanities of a Pioneer," she catches this subject with striking quality: "In the obscurity the fields/shield themselves with wall/futile:/everything/is getting in." Atwood explains on the pointlessness of protecting oneself against the wild in The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a record of an European worker's battles to explore the unsettled areas of Canada, her embraced home. Practically every ballad manages this pressure in some frame. In "This is a photo of me," the peaceful characteristic setting presents a startling difference to the human catastrophe it covers. The polished "mountains and lakes and more lakes" portrayed on the divider in "At the Tourist Center in Boston" succeed just in helping the watcher to remember the coarse reality underneath the photos. In "Siren Song," the spiked bluffs pummel cheerful mariners, who are in, however not completely of, nature. In "Postcards" and different ballads of that time, restorative changes to the characteristic world do little to cover the viciousness that went before human mediation. Scenes in Atwood's lyrics are cruel and merciless, wild and unconquerable, similar to the core of haziness inside all people.