Fever 1793
This book is about a girl named Mattie Cook, who lives above a coffee shop in Philadelphia. It was all okay until the Fever broke out. Disease spread everywhere, and then everything changed. Her mother gets the disease first, but fortunately lives through it but sadly her grandfather doesn’t. Mattie loses a lot of close ones, like her friend Polly. She has a friend names Nathaniel Benson who fancys her and she feels the same way, but he is off with the Peale family who is a painter, he works for them as in assistant. He doesn 't catch anything because he away and safe. In the book there are actual quotes and letters from actual people from that time on each chapter.The setting was in 1793. Here 's a quote from chapter three; “Oh then the hands of the pitiful mother
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And in most cases you would most likely die because the doctors weren’t as advanced as they are nowadays, they didn’t know how to treat it. What they did was cut you open, letting leeches suck the blood off of you. Even now we don’t have a cure, but we have treatments that may help. But in rare cases you would live, like Mattie 's mother did. By the end of the book everyone was okay, they started a new coffee shop, and re started with there lives. Trying to forget the horrible past of what had went down in 1793. Mattie used to be lazy, and careless, but now she 's brave and responsible. She was all alone after her grandfather died, she went through someone trying to rob their home, she had to take care of a child, a little girl, seeing her loved ones die, and her life how she knew it and was used to vanish right before her eyes, see dead people on the streets, not very kept up graves in which they piled bodies in a huge hole and buried them. Her grandfather was one of them. There are no cases in America as of right now, and there is no cure for it either. But we have doctors and technology that is advanced that we can live through it, Mattie and the people of her time did
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Knowing is good, but knowing all is better. Based on an actual incident, Gary Paulsen's book Nightjohn showcases this life lesson. In the story young Sarny, a slave, is taught to read and write by a fellow slave, John. She knows that as a slave that reading is dangerous. But she takes that chance, because she knows wisdom is sharper than any weapon.
Almost every single day you start a task with the intent to finish it and then you don’t. You may give up because it’s boring, or too time-consuming, sometimes it’s not even your fault, stuff happens. But maybe you give up because it’s too difficult. Yet some characters in the Historical Fiction book Fever 1793, although it was too hard, continued to move forward. The book's protagonist, Matilda “Mattie” Cook, had to survive an epidemic that destroyed her city and life.
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This illustrates how Mattie feels confident, annoyed, and frustrated, and these feelings lead her to stepping up during tough times and taking charge. Anderson’s amazing story, Fever 1793, shows the theme that stepping up during tough times is important. It is seen how this is possible through the the way the theme impacts the characters and the different author’s craft moves the author
Her father’s hand was molded to his coffee mug. Her mother’s hand stuck to her spoon… The demon had seized them all in his daymare. Her mother sank very slowly into a chair. Her father slowly raised his chin to look into his wife’s eyes.
In the story, the yellow fever hits Mattie and her family hard, causing the loss of her grandfather. Although this was very hard for Mattie, she later comes to build up her life and is able to put her dreams into action. She is able to reopen the coffeehouse with Eliza, which was her dream from the beginning. Without the fever hitting Philadelphia, Mattie would have never acquired the amount of independence and responsibility that she needed to run the coffeehouse and fulfill her dreams. For example, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson has Mattie state, “Looking down the peaceful street, it seemed no one could imagine the terror we had all endured. ...
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