...Did you know, that the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia of 1793 lasted 4 to 5 months with over than 4,000 deaths? In the novel fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, the town of Philadelphia suffers though a tough time caused by yellow fever. 14 year old Matilda Cook who lives with her mother Lucille, her grandfather, and their house cook Eliza in a coffeehouse, must try to make it through the fever. In the novel fever 1973 we learn many themes, but one important theme is maturity that teaches that even when going through the toughest situations people become grown-ups. First of all, when yellow fever has strike through the town of Philadelphia, Lucille is the first one to get the fever and doesn't want Matilda near her so she doesn't get sick too. So Lucile makes the decisions of sending grandfather and Matilda to a friends farm to keep them safe. Matilda wanted to stay with her mother but Eliza convinced her to go away and promised Matilda she would look after her mother. Once grandfather and Matilda had left Philadelphia and were on their way to their...
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...I woke up feeling anemic, nauseous, I’d had a splitting headache and my skin was taking a yellow tinge, as I saw a mosquito flying around my room I knew what had happened . . . Yellow Fever! 2000 to 5000 people had already died, would I have been next? Philadelphia doctors and French doctors treated Yellow Fever patients in Philadelphia, 1793. People got Yellow Fever by infected mosquitoes that came from refuges. The Philadelphia doctors and French doctors have some things in common. For example, they both treated Yellow Fever patients and tried to find the right cure, but never could. Philadelphia doctor, Dr. Edward Stevens, had thought that if you drink wine and take cold baths it would cure Yellow Fever. They both care about their...
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...problems, or death.Yellow fever is a serious, potentially deadly flu-like disease. Yellow fever is a tropical viral disease affecting the liver and kidneys, causing fever and jaundice. It is transmitted by mosquitoes. Yellow fever in 18th century was one of the worst epidemics in Philadelphia history because of its mysterious cause, tenacious symptoms, and economic impact. When the yellow fever came to Philadelphia it became a ghost town. So many people effected by the yellow fever. It killed them from...
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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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...The front cover that I illustrated on the 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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...“Cough Cough”, “I feel as sick as a dead fever patient” murmured one of the fever victims. A first year physician Dr. Blesi, newly arrived in Philadelphia volunteered to treat yellow fever victims in 1793. King George lll asked Dr. B.J. Hardick to help knock out and cure the thousands of people affected from yellow fever in Philadelphia. He can either use the American way or the French way to treat the yellow fever victims. They are both alike yet so different from each other. The French treatment and the American treatment are similar in many ways. One way their similar is they both can treat people. Also, they are both alike because the two treatments involve highly trained doctors. Lastly, the two treatments both give the fever victims...
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..."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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...Jack FitzWilliam Mrs. Ruettgers English 9 October 2012 Yellow Fever Horrible sickness, awful violence, and sudden death are all experiences that no child should have to go through. However, these experiences can change a person’s character completely in a helpful way. The main character, Matilda Cook, in the book Fever, 1793 experiences all of these things as a teenager. This book follows her story of how she makes it through the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, and how it changes her character and personality in a constructive way. This book was written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon & Schuster Books in 2000. Fever, 1793 is a horrifying, historical fiction book that is understood easily enough that anyone over the age of ten or eleven could read it, but the content can be graphic when scenes of sickness or death arise. Laurie Halse Anderson has also published popular books such as Speak and Wintergirls. The book Fever, 1793 is a powerful story of horrible sickness and death along with the transformation of a teenager into a mature, young adult. Stubborn Matilda lives in her family’s coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather, a parrot, and a cat. Just like everyone else at the coffeehouse, Matilda must get up early and do her chores, but Matilda is your average teenager. No teenager enjoys getting up early, and Matilda is no exception. I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear and my mother screeching in the right....
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...History is filled with periods of great suffering and change. The 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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...“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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...By the time Henry Bissex was born in 1796, Philadelphia was crucial in the foundation of the United States. It was the largest American city by population and had one of country’s largest trade ports. Its economy had boomed after the end of the Revolutionary War in 1787 and Philadelphia experienced massive growth in population and trade. By 1790, Philadelphia was chosen to be a temporary (and first) national capital of the United States under the new United States of America Constitution. The city had already been the capital of the Pennsylvania state government for centuries and was the site of both the First and Second Continental Congress. In 1791, Philadelphia was the location of the First Bank of the United States. It was chartered for a term of twenty years by the United States Congress and United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton on February 25, 1791 as an attempt to stabilize the United States’s national credit and pay debts from the war....
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... John Payne went to Quaker meetings with Mary and her parent, John was later accepted into the Quaker faith. John and Mary, had nine children, unfortunately one of their children died as an infant. Dolley was the fourth out of the eight chilldren. When Dolley was 15 years old her father sold their land in North Carolina, and the entire family moved to Philadelphia. TEENAGE YEARS & FIRST MARRIGE Picture...
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...living in Philadelphia during 1793. Matilda's journey was a mind-altering experience about a her facing the fever head on. It commenced when Matilda Cook’s best friend Polly died on one of hottest summers of the decade, due to the fever. She barely had anytime to mourn her friend’s death when her mother got sick with fever as well. Matilda knew something was amiss when her mother consigned her away with her grandpa to the country. But things didn't turn out that pleasant when the Chauffeur kicked them off because of a cough that was mistaken as the fever. leaving them stranded alone miles away from the city or farm lands. Then Matilda ends up waking up in a hospital after fainting to too much sun exposure and finding out she had the fever, but survived it. After hearing the crazy news her grandpa and her ended up going back to their coffee shop house in the city. and then getting robbed in the middle of the night. Due to a fight against a robber and her grandpa Matilda felt very alone without her grandpa, not to mention hungry. She set out to town to scavenge food but stumbled upon upon an orphan that just lost her mother, she took it upon herself to take her to the orphanage. But decided not to when she found Eliza, her coffee house maid, and close family friend. Confronted by Eliza's presence, she opened the coffee house once more with Eliza at first sight of snow. And The next day Matilda's mother came home from the country alive and well, showing that no fever was going...
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...between the United States and Spain. Spain was a colonial power at the time, holding many territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. Revolts against Spanish rule were taking place in many of these territories. In Cuba and in the Philippines, the seeds of revolution were steadily growing. The United States found themselves in a position to assist these people with their fight for independence and to gain some land and power in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. It has long been thought that the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor was the catalyst that propelled the US into war with Cuba. I have found evidence that the US entered into war for a different reason. My research has led me to believe that the spread of disease, especially yellow fever, from Cuba into the US was the true reason for the American declaration of war against Spain. The sinking of the Maine has historically been accepted to be the cause of the US entering into war. It can be argued that it was, but, was the sinking really caused by the Spanish? There is no conclusive evidence that it was or was not. The Maine was sent to Havana Harbor in January of 1898. The ship, along with other US military vessels, was used to help blockade the port. This would keep the Spanish fleet from replenishing supplies and weapons to quell the rebellions going on in Cuba against them. On February 15, 1898 the Maine sank. It was believed that the Spanish caused the sinking that led to the death of 260 American sailors. The incident...
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...One of my mother’s many nicknames for me is pest. A pest for her flowerbeds to be exact. As a child I would often pluck flowers from the garden and proceed to dissect them on the front porch. This was the start of my intrigue for the natural world. As a seventh grader, I started taking pond water to school to look at them under the microscope. That was the year my teacher assigned Fever 1793. This young adult novel by Laurie Anderson about the 1793 yellow fever epidemic ignited my passion for bacterium and prokaryotic cells. By the time I reached tenth grade I was deeply entrenched in this minuscule world. It was then my biology teacher shared a story with us about the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It was researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine that discovered how this parasite crosses the blood-brain barrier. That was the moment that I became aware of the University of Pennsylvania. Since then I have come to realize the in-depth...
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