Summary Of The Book Fever 1973

At some point in a person's life, they must make the transition from childhood to adulthood. Many of a persons early life experiences can contribute to this transition, even if it is the simplest of things. Yellow Fever hit Philadelphia hard in 1793. It also hit hard in the book Fever: 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. In this book, fourteen year-old Mattie Cook?s life gets turned upside-down when Yellow Fever strikes Philadelphia. In her adventure, Mattie must show responsibility, and experience the pain of death before she matures into an adult.

Imagine: A young boy scavenges for food to provide for his impoverished family which was composed of his ill mother and starving siblings or a homeless, single mom desperatley seeking for shelter. These synopses from "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry share a common theme: perseverance through hardships. In "Angela's Ashes," a memoir by Frank McCourt, he stells about the harships he endured through his childhood, such as, struggling to assist his family in the midst of poverty by stealing food to provide for them. Futhermore, in "The Street," a novel by Ann Petry, tells the story of young Lutie Johnson, a homeless single mom who is seeking shelter for herself and her children. In these two excerpts, the authors use the characters, settings, and events to develop the theme, which I've identified as perseverance through hardships.

As soon as the fever involved Mattie’s mother, Grandfather was ordered to take Mattie somewhere safe. During their travel, Mattie had noticed that grandfather was getting ill. She was to find each of them food and to take care of them both. Since Grandfather was ill they could not leave Philadelphia, Mattie was to take care of Grandfather while he was sick. “ ‘Here.’ I fumbled with the canteen. ‘You need same water. You’ll feel much better’ “(Anderson 86). Grandfather had helped Mattie become independent and help her take care of him. He had helped her become more independent because he taught her how to depend on herself and to be braver because of his actions.

I could connect this story to A Long Way Gone, another memoir, because in the beginning of the book Ishmael Beah struggles to find food and he has no money to pay for the food. His life was really an overall struggle. Anchee’s parents struggled to put food on the table for her and her family because of the little pay that they received and how the economy was. “In hunger, Coral once dug out a drug bottle from the closet and chewed down pink-colored pills for

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.

When the four friend got to the hospital on 7th street they remembered the stories that their parents every night about the killer Santa Claus and how he would come out and kill kids that were inside the hospital.But two of the friends thought that it was a joke so that they could get scared and sleep with their parents.Also right before the friend went inside a strange man came from the shadows and told the kids that that hospital was haunted by a department store Santa that got drunk and was shot in the head by the police because he killed his daughter and his wife with a axes.

He went back to wake up Dill but he wasn't their laying down in bed so Tom got even curious about where Dill had of gone. So he went off to find where Dill went and he found Dill but in a corner crying and shaking he didn't know what to do Tom told him to get up and they would find wat happen to all the people in the hospital .But first they would have to find themselves some clothing to wear. They walked out the next day and it was cloudy and nobody in sight so walk all the way home to find nobody but their homes were destroyed. They were scared that their home and family could be dyed. They found a car and traveled around the whole city and found nobody until they found a guy walking they yelled and he continued to walk they stopped next to him and Dill touched the guy on his shoulder he was not human so the drived away and they talked about what that guy was because he was not human . So they would called that thing a Zombie because they didn't talked and they only walked slow and fragile. So they went on until their car ran out on gas in their car. They walked for days,weeks until they found a guy finding supplies for his group in the city. Tom asked the guy to stopped he ran because he didn't know them until he got tired so Tom told the guy that they wouldn't hurt him that they didn't know what happen to the

After a while he brings Alexandra back from boarding school and has to tell his daughters that their mother is brain dead and is going to be pulled off life support. Matt also found out that the land which is held in trust will end in seven years. So either he has to sell the land or someone else will sell it. Matt King is so overwhelmed with all the decisions he has to make with his wife, to the land, and how to be the best to his kids. While dealing with all that he soon finds out that his wife has been having an affair and his daughters don't want him to sell the land. LIfe is really rough for Matt King and he’s doing his best. As he talks to his cousin Hugh about not selling the land, Hugh wants the opposite. He doesn’t want to listen to any of that nonsense about not selling the land. Matt King is going through alot and the way he finds out that his wife was cheating on him is from his oldest daughter Alexandra. He finds out that his daughters can forgive their mother for what she’s

The three girls they are eating candy popcorn and watching movies they are scary ,funny and then at 3:30am they play game boards like monopoly, life,and headbandz.Isabell want’s to tell scary stories so at 4:30am they tell stories and Isabell goes first she tells a story about Clowns and how the chase little kids and kidnapped kids that messed with him.Bella and Chloe were so scared now it is Bella turn and she tells a story about the Slenderman and what he does he is a very tall scary man you can't see his face he stands in the woods and looks for little kids and he takes them to scare them.

Tom and Benny are outraged they want to find charlie and pink eye in the Rot and ruins so they can get Nix back, Find the lost girl, and then kill charlie and pinkeye. Before they go into the Rot and Ruins lots of people know what charlie and PInk eye did so they give them lots of gifts to help them in the Rot and Ruin. Tom and Benny go into the Rot and Ruin looking awesome. But then the stumble in Zombie traps and in one Tom got shot and "died." After running for Benny's life he spots Nix! They run together up this huge hill and into a cabin. There they just cry and Benny kisses Nix. In the morning they hear someone call out to them. It is one of Charlies servents that take people to Game Land. Game Land is when bad people take kids and place them in pit with Zoms. The worst part about it is sometimes they will give the people sticks or knifes but that is it. But the Servents don't get very far with the kids because they beat the them up really bad. But then one gets stabbed in the back and none of them do it. Is it Tom? No, it is the lost girl! The lost girl kills the servents and helps them get food, water, and shelter. Benny and Nix learn a lot from the lost

The kids were so scared at this point they ran home and got there parents. They had there parents take them back to get there stuff and the kids made a promise to never go back to that old abandoned cabin. The next day the kids woke up in there tents in there back yard the had thought it only to be a dream till they walked into Mary's house and her mom introduced there new puppy. The puppy had been the one that chased then and the freaked out and told her mom everything and she ended up getting rid of the dog. The kids were so happy that they didn't have to see that dog anymore. Mary and Miles ended up telling Charlie that the wanted to go to is haunted house in the summer.

Gregory thinks of the idea to get money by making there own haunted house in the basement Rowley’s mom finds out and grounds Rowley. Gregory then is forced to take Manny and his dad with him. Gregory’s dad and Manny later go back to the house. A few teenager attack Gregory and Rowley, who came with him. Gregory then says he will call the cops then he runs to his grandma’s house.

Later Carl and Ellie marry each other and move into the their childhood clubhouse and fix it up. Carl gets a job selling balloons to kids at the zoo where Ellie works. After many years Ellie becomes very ill and dies leaving carl with her adventure book and very depressed and

The boys find her drugged and trapped in a room with someone from their past. Someone they both want to forget.

Brenda and Thomas went to the party and were offered some drinks and they crank it, they soon noticed that the drinks had been drugged and they passed out on the floor. When Thomas woke up he was taped to a charge as well as Brenda on the other side of the room. One of the guys had asked who they were and again Thomas said the same thing what he had told Jorge. Thumping came from room above, where the party had stopped now, boys came in and they Thomas’s friends, he was so relieved to have seen him. They got out and started to walk out of the door when Thomas had been shot on his shoulders. WICKED had came in a berg to rescue Thomas because he heard from them that it wasn’t supposed to happen, he was the best candidate for whatever they had in mind. They brought him back down to his friends and his friends didn’t ask any questions they just kept walking through the city. Soon they were out the city, they decided to walk towards the mountains that lay ahead of them.