Typhoid Fever Frank Mccoourt Analysis

“Inoculation”, a short poem written by Susan Donnelly, follows a slave master, Cotton Mather, and his slave, Onesimus, as the two men speak about smallpox which Mather has “studied for a while”. As Mather’s question of “if he'd (Onesimus) ever had the pox” was seemed to be clearly referring to the disease that killed several people in Boston of 1776 at first, Onesimus brought the question under a new light by answering “yes and no” depicting that he once had smallpox but at the same time he did not have it, a notion which he later explained. Showing his confusion to Onesimus’s answer, Mather replied, “Consider how a man can take inside all manner of disease and still survive." Instead of answering with a simple yes or no, Onesimus connected

Illness is never a pretty scene, it can leave a devastating path of destruction. Illness embodies many complex meanings encrypted within a text, and it's rarely just illness. Sickness can show paralysis of a character, the character can be unknowing death, it can show symbolic immortal, or illustrate wholesome destruction. The French Revolution was a battle between the the wealthy and the poverty stricken, and with poverty comes disease. Illness illustrates many pictures, and the physical illness usually ends up a bonus to the story; this can be seen embodied within The Tale of Two Cities.

The novel “Legend” by Marie Lu is set in dystopic future Los Angles. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic of America; however, behind his criminal façade he is a teenager living a life of poverty trying his best to protect his family. In order to protect his family Day embarks on a hospital heist to gain medication to save his family from the plague currently sweeping the nation. During the heist a Captain of Military named Metias is killed who was the brother of the Republic’s young prodigy, June. June is a young, intelligent soldier of a wealthy family and elite status; after discovering about her brother’s murder she pledges she will find his assumed killer, Day.

List two main points discussed in “Typhoid Fever.” What was the story about? What should a reader take from the story?

“I jolted awake. My sheets were soaked through with sweat, blood, and the foul-smelling black substance that marked a victim of yellow fever. Yellow fever,” despite her desperate cries for mercy, yellow fever struck young Matilda Cook with its evil hand, along with thousands of other unfortunate victims. An unpredictable future haunted the families of Philadelphia as this unbearable sickness slithered in between their homes. In the novel Fever, Laurie Halse Anderson described the fictional epidemic that occurred in 1793 to the citizens of Pennsylvania. She passionately painted the picture with blended colors of pain, perseverance, and hope. Despite unbearable pain, the protagonist pressed on with strength and hope. While her character certainly deserves admiration, Matilda Cook is not the only strong character in this story, her friends Eliza and Nathaniel share some of her inspiring traits as well as some of their own.

Fever 1793, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a historical fiction book that depicts the tragedy of the yellow fever virus outbreak in Philadelphia. Mattie Cook, the main character, deals with a tremendous amount of death and change throughout the book. The theme of the book, that people will do the right thing even if they know that risk, is supported by the author throughout the use of repetition and similes.

In the book, How To Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster, the author, talks about diseases in literature and how they are never what they seem to be. The symptoms and the side effects all mean something more than the disease- or at least they do in literary diseases. He also states that there are 3 key elements to know if a disease or fever is significant to the plot and the character. First of all, the patient is usually very picturesque in the sense that their body and appearance shows their deterioration. Secondly, the patient does not know the whereabouts of their disease and would not know he or she acquired it - a mystery factor. Lastly, there is always symbolism about the character’s lifestyle and their actions that is shown through the disease. Overall, Foster claims that literary diseases almost always have a deeper meaning than what they seem to be or cause

AP Frank has a breakdown in his guidance counselor’s office because he cannot achieve the standards his mom has set for him. “AP Frank slumped into his chair, took a breath, broke into sobs, and poured out his feelings.” He doubts that his life can improve and is trapped by the immense pressure his mom puts on him to succeed. The reader sees AP Frank reach his limit and crack; he is suffocating from the pressure to get into a top-tier college. The imagery Robbins uses to describe the breakdown AP Frank has makes the reader feel as if they are experiencing it for themselves. The reader can visualize they are in the room with AP Frank, because of how vividly his movements are described. Robbins crafts her argument by following students, because the reader is able to see how stress molds a student, and can even lead them to their emotional breaking point, like AP Frank’s. Robbins is able to show the reader that high school stress, because of the pressure to get into a good college, can ruin a person’s mental health, and drive them to the point of insanity. This applies to the emotions of the reader by showing them how agonizing AP Frank thinks his life is and how he thinks it will not improve. It is evident that Robbins wants the reader to feel as if changes must be made soon, so no other student will feel this

Imagine yourself sick and no cure in 1793 in Philadelphia your dead or someone else is dead. If I lived during 1793 in Philadelphia the struggles would include disease, survival, death. To begin, the whole book is about yellow fever and yellow fever is a disease. For example the story initially starts in the second chapter, Polly one of Matilda's friend dies from a fever but they do not know what fever. What this means is that the fever is barely starting in Philadelphia. Additionally, it has seemed that survival was very important and very hard in Philadelphia. On page 24 in the first sentence it had said how many people have died already “A week later sixty-four people had died.” This explains that the fever was going very quickly and you

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all…the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father [and] the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire” (McCourt 1). This is how Frank McCourt introduces his memoir, Angela’s Ashes. He tells the story of his growing up in a poverty stricken world, brought on to them by the alcoholism of his father. Being the recollections of a person’s memoires it is sometimes difficult to believe in all the poverty, abuse and family which Franck claims existed and were caused by alcoholism. Alcoholism is the root of all problems in the book as it leads to poverty, abuse and family tensions. By comparing Frank’s testimony of how alcohol ruined his childhood to other real world scenarios it will be possible to determine if Frank’s case is the norm for alcohol taking this kind of effect or is his story just an extreme case of alcohol abuse.

AP Frank has a breakdown in his guidance counselor’s office because of the standards his mom has set for him. He feels there is no hope for life to improve and is trapped by the immense pressure his mom puts on him to succeed. “AP Frank slumped into his chair, took a breath, broke into sobs, and poured out his feelings.” The reader sees AP Frank reach his limit and crack; he is suffocating from the pressure to get into a top-tier college. The imagery Robbins uses to describe the breakdown AP Frank has makes the reader feel like they are experiencing it for themselves. One feels as if they are in the room with AP Frank, because of how vividly his movements are described. Robbins crafts her argument by following students, because the reader is able to see how stress molds a student, and can even lead them to their emotional breaking point, like AP Frank’s. Robbins is able to show the reader that high school stress, because of the pressure to get into a good college, can ruin a person’s mental health, and drive them to the point of insanity. This applies to the emotional appeal of the reader by showing them how bad AP Frank thinks his life is and how he thinks it will not improve. It is evident that Robbins wants the reader to feel as if changes must be made soon, so no other student will feel this

Hope, the important word in our daily life, it keeps us walking, searching even exploring. It makes us loving and leads bright. In the story Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The author shows the strong word, hope. A girl named Mattie lived in the family coffee shop with her mother and grandfather during 1793.

The incident of the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia occurred in 1793. The Yellow Fever was definitely a hard thing to go through, especially Matilda and her family. In the beginning, Mattie is very tenacious but at the end is very spontaneous and brave. We think the theme of Fever is always fighting through hard times because Mattie fights through everything even when she feels like she has nothing. She doesn’t stop even when no one can help. Even though she was inevitable to terrible things happening because of the Fever, she still fought. These are a few reasons why we think the theme of Fever 1793 is always fighting through hard times.

The greatest threats to Frank’s mental state in Limerick, the city where Frank, moved to from America with his family at the age of four is from other factors. He undergoes a 'miserable Irish Catholic childhood', this comes also from the attitudes that exist at the time and are considered correct in that time period. This stifling atmosphere pervades the environment of

Since Frank had no stationery, he stole some paper and envelopes from a store. This demonstrates that Frank is willing to take risks for others and for himself. If I were