..."Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage" - Seneca The novel Fever 1793 is a book by Laurie Halse Anderson. In the novel, the young character Mattie is battling through the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Mattie's mother catches the fever and leaves the city to get better. Many people are dying due to the fever and the town turns into a ghost town. Mattie decides to stay with her Grandfather. This is story is about Mattie trying to survive and get through the fever epidemic and find her Mother. One theme in the book is survival. I understand them there about this novel, but I'm here to say that the best and most backed-up one is "Some people will be willing to do ANYTHING to survive". The reasons this is the best are: People can...
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...In the books, Chains and Fever 1793, both by Laurie Halse Anderson, there are similarities such as the main characters and the writing style but also differences like the level of freedom characters get. BP1, Comparing writing style BP2, Contrasting freedom BP3, Comparing main characters What does a book about slaves have in common with a book about an epidemic? They may both sound completely different but when they are written in the same time period and by the same author, one finds similarities but also some differences. The stories, Chains and Fever 1793 are two books written by Laurie Halse Anderson. In Chains, a slave named Isabel is trying to escape from her master in order to find freedom and her sister. In Fever 1793, a girl named...
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...book Fever 1793, is a silhouette of the main character, Matilda, walking in a marsh-like, swampy area, in front of a fading sunset. The cover has minor details such as mosquitoes, the yellow balloon, and cattail plants. I designed the cover in the silhouette style because I like the simplicity of silhouettes and I think it complements the cover. I included the yellow balloon in this scene because, in my opinion, it symbolizes Mattie walking into the yellow fever epidemic. On the other hand, I wrote the title in calligraphy, which is decorative handwriting, to renew the old cover’s title font. Also, the background is a sunset that's filled with the color yellow, with the reference of yellow fever....
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...“Fever 1793” is a fiction novel, written by Laurie Halse Anderson. The action of the book takes place in 1793, Philadelphia. It features Mattie, a middle class girl living with her single mother and grandfather. A disease known as yellow fever, enters town and starts taking over the city. Before they know it, thousands are already dead. The streets are stranded and people of higher class are all fleeing to their country estates. After Mattie’s mother gets sick, she insists that she and her grandfather leave too, to avoid the disease. On the journey they are mistaken for fever victims and get stranded on the road, trying to get back to their family and escape the fever, before it gets to them. In the novel “Fever 1793”, the subject of social...
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...Fever 1793, a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story takes place in a fever stricken Philadelphia. A young girl named Mattie Cook is living in Philadelphia with her busy mother, and her grandfather as they are keeping busy with the family-owned coffeehouse. When fever strikes, Philadelphia becomes a ghost town and mattie is forced to mature, fast. By using comparisons and description, Anderson creates the lesson that maturity can come faster than expected Anderson shows that maturity can come fast when Mattie finds Nell at Nell’s house. Mattie knows that she can not care for Nell, but she also knows that she can not leave Nell by herself. Anderson writes, “ Now what? I couldn’t care for Nell; I could barely care for myself.” (163). Mattie has to become a motherly figure to Nell and learn to care for her because she feels the responsibility to do so. This is significant because large responsibilities came to Mattie at the age of only fourteen. She is not ready to care for a child and she is not ready to be on her own. Certainly it could be said that...
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...Over 5,000 people died of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in the year 1793. In the book Fever, 1793, by, Laurie Halse Anderson, there is so much suffering throughout Philadelphia. Stricken with Yellow Fever carried by mosquitoes. People died daily, families were lost engulfed by the fever. During the story our main character Mattie goes through many things. The importance of family is shown by there family’s refusal to be apart. There is so much suffering, there are death carts picking up the dead as is they were nothing. Mattie must persevere in order to not get sick and just survive until the frost. Importance of family is shown in ways that make is appear like Mattie and her family are inseparable. For example, Mattie is hit by...
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...Fever 1793 is about how a very bad fever struck the plague of 1793. The Author is Laurie Halse Anderson, she came across an article in 1993, in her local newspaper commemorating the epidemic that had devastated Philadelphia two centuries before. Laurie decided to write a version of her own about fever 1793. I selected this particular article because honestly i’ve always been interested in history, even though this isn’t about the holocaust I’m very interested in that. All the stuff about the plagues, holocaust, and certain things intrigue me. Summary August 1793. A fourteen year old girl named Matilda(Mattie) Cook lives with her mom, named Lucille Cook, and her grandfather in Philadelphia. Her mom runs a coffeehouse with Eliza, her cook, and Polly, her maid. Everything was going perfectly fine until, the waterfront was abuzz with reports of diseases. The “fever” spreads from the docks to Mattie’s home, causing everything she loves to be in serious trouble. Soon thousands flee the city and go to the country. Then Mattie is soon trapped in a living nightmare, the fever reaches her house and she must struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important- the fight to stay alive....
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...novel Fever 1793 recounts the events of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia through a fictional perspective. In the novel, a young teenager named Matilda Cook (“Mattie”) feels the threatening press of the epidemic as her family and their coffeehouse is endangered. Mattie experiences great suffering both through the physical pain of her and those around her and through the complex emotions that drive the plot and set the book’s entire atmosphere. Immediately the reader can see that the story will include much physical suffering. The book’s premise revolves around a terrifying outbreak of disease. Mattie’s friend, a worker at the coffeehouse, is found to be dead within the first few pages. Thousands die from the yellow fever, and those not dead have either fled from town or are starving and struggling to survive. To illustrate, when Mattie returns from Philadelphia she finds “A small child cowered in the corner, her blonde hair loose and tangled, her feet bare and black with dirt. She was sucking her thumb and keening to...
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...August 1793, I awoke from the loud screams of children as they chased each other around the dirt-covered brick floors. Chickens clucked, geese honked, and dogs barked. I sat up from the wooden, splintery, unsoothing bench. My back ached and I barely could find anything to eat. I was blessed to have left-overs or offerings from people around me coming from the market. I had no home, no job, no money, and no family. My mother and sister had caught yellow fever, very slowly and painfully. They died from each other a week apart. I caught it once, but recovered. Thank God! The vomit was a gruesome black, blotched with murky red blood. It had an odor worse than anything. I also broke into sweats, chills running down my back. Nurses often...
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