Mattie's Life In Philadelphia During The Summer Of 1793

David O. Stewart’s The Summer of 1787: the Men Who Wrote the Constitution provides an un-biased historical account on how the constitution came to be. The book begins in post-revolutionary war America under the failed Articles of Confederation to the constitutional convention and through the ratification process of the constitution. It provides the readers with an in depth look at the hard ball the founding fathers played to create a government that could deal with a violent rebellion, mass debt, and the states conflicting goals. The goal of The Summer of 1787 the Men Who Wrote the Constitution is to enlighten readers on how the constitution came to be by illustrating how the founding fathers personalities affected the process by providing a deeper look into these key figures personal life’s and how their experiences shaped their political views.

Has an ordinary cold ever came out of nowhere and infected you, your friends and your family. This is the case for 14 year old Matilda Cook in Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson but this is not an ordinary cold, it is a raging yellow fever outbreak in the United States capitol Philadelphia (the capitol is later moved to its current location Washington D.C.). Matilda’s personality was altered a great amount over the course of the outbreak for example she started to become a more responsible worker and she was treated and respected more like a grown adult.

The reader knows that yellow fever has proven deadly to many Philadelphians and may kill Lucille as well. Matilda’s mother dying of yellow fever could be foreseen when the author writes about what happens to Matilda’s mother when she is sick. When Matilda took a nap, while she was supposed to be watching her mother, she woke up to her mother throwing up liquid that normally would not come out of someone, “I must have dozed off. One moment, the room was still, the next, Mother flew off the pillows and was violently ill, vomiting blood all over the bed and floor. Her eyes rolled back in her head”(Anderson 68).

Yellow Fever Essay In 1793 a rapid fever ran through the city of Philadelphia like the fastest track runner in the world. That fever was called yellow fever. If you had a despicable case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French doctor or an American doctor to treat you. Yellow fever came to Philadelphia by foreign ships.

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.

They mainly behaved this way, because of the disease. Matilda stated “ And so I left home in a manner quite unpredicted.” - page 77. She wasn’t expecting to have to leave because of this Fever.

In Fever 1793, Mattie’s family is always trying to do the best for her. For instance, she is always grasping for her family to stay with her. While her mother was sick she did not want to leave her side. Then

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And put Mattie second because Mattie is already healthy. Mattie is making the hard decision to value her mother’s choice and not make her mother feel any worse because Mattie knows she has a complicated relationship with her mother, and has many differences with her. Mattie does not want to make her mother feel pressure because of the yellow fever sickness. Moving on towards the middle of the story, the Grandfather and Mattie decide to move out of the country, and leave the mother to rest, and get better, and Eliza to take care of the mother. But that doesn’t go as planned.

But Eliza insists that they go because she wants them to be safe and she can care for her mother by herself. So Mattie and her grandfather get in a wagon with another man who is going to a different town to be safe from the fever. But when they arrive at the gates of the new town grandfather starts coughing really bad and the guards at the gate will not let the enter because he might have the fever. So the man driving kicks Mattie and her Grandfather out of the wagon and they go into town. So Mattie and her grandfather start walking and soon they find a big tree to rest at.

Matilda must have been in really bad shape. Although to survive is a very eye opening experience. Matilda’s nurse in Bush Hill, Mrs. Flagg. “You’ve beat the Grim Reaper, you have lassie... we weren't sure you’d make it through the night,” (99) Matilda was so sick that doctors didn’t know if she would survive the night.

Did you know that in 1793, more than 5000 people died from the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia? The book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a historical fiction about a girl named Matilda trying to survive against yellow fever with Her Mother, Grandfather, and Eliza in Philadelphia. The theme of the book is “Perseverance allows the overcoming of hardships and brings hope to those who persevere.” During the novel Fever 1793, Matilda endured through the entire Yellow Fever epidemic with it having ups and downs that built hope and destroyed it completely, this is a reason that perseverance allows the overcoming of hardships and brings hope to those who persevere. One example is when Mattie was with a child to take care of and is trying

When yellow fever strikes Philadelphia, where Mattie lives, she is forced to change her ways. In order to survive, Mattie must become resourceful and responsible. Throughout her journey, she catches the fever, helps an orphaned girl, uses her house to save lives, and starts up her coffeehouse again after it was shut down. The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 changed Matilda Cook from an unproductive teenager to a responsible young adult.

Mattie mentions that she has to force back the tears and bite her cheek to stop her from crying. This shows her love for her Grandfather and that hurts her to see him in this condition. My last piece of evidence comes after Mattie and her Grandpa return to Philadelphia after Mattie is done recuperating from the yellow fever. Once Mattie and her Grandpa are back in Philadelphia they go along with their day and do their best to keep on keeping on but when night falls Mattie made the mistake of keeping the window open, and robbers get in and beat up Grandpa when he is trying to defend Mattie. Even though Mattie manages to chase off the robbers Grandpa is still to far to save, But in his final moments Mattie does everything she can to comfort him while trying to fight back the tears.