The Role Of Suffering In Fever 1793

Chapter One of of Jim Murphy’s book, An American Plague, opens with the quote, ‘About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us” (Murphy 1). This quote is accredited to Mathew Carey in November, 1793. The term scourge is defined as, “a person or thing that cause great trouble of suffering,” and the term malignant is defined as, “tending to produce death or deterioration.” These are very strong terms with extremely negative connotative meanings. The figurative language which is evident in the quote at the opening of Chapter One is personification. Carey’s quote give yellow fever an eerie, human-like quality when he writes, “the destroying scourge, the malignant fever, CREPT in among us” (Murphy 1). CArey’s word choices and use of personification help to create a powerful image in the reader’s mind of the threat looming over the city of Philadelphia.\

Matilda or Mattie is the fourteen year old protagonist and narrator of this book, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is the typical teenager. She would rather play than work. She avoids doing her chores and would rather watch her mother do them than herself. She is lazy and a procrastinator but she is also nurturing. She took care of her mother while she was sick, she took care of her grandfather on their trip to Ludington’s farm and she also took care of an orphaned, homeless girl named Nell.

Fever: 1793 by Laurie Halsey Anderson is told from the perspective of Mattie Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. She lives with her cold-hearted Mother, her aging Grandfather, a Revolutionary War veteran with a parrot named King George. There’s also Eliza, a free black woman who works at the Cook Coffeehouse and Nathaniel, a charming guy Mattie likes. It starts out as yellow fever spreads around with the punishing heat. It’s killing many people, such as Polly, their often lazy servant girl. “Mother” as Mattie calls her is being very protective with the fever spreading around. In fact, people don’t really know what’s going on. As the fever got worse and people started realizing that

1] The fever caught us all by surprise, every day more citizens will become ill, we lost countless loved ones.It seemed like the end of the world though we did not surrender.We worked with each other and after a long wait, we brought Philadelphia back to its original state.

Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793, many people in Philadelphia were facing a disease called “Yellow Fever” the patients were to get help immediately or they would soon die. During the rough times, most people of the city fled to a safer place where the fever did not eat off others. These times were rough for the people and most couldn’t afford to flee the city or it was too late to consider it. The people were to wait till winter which is when the fever left and the city was safe again.

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.

Don’t take what you have for granted as disaster can strike at any moment. In “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson, Matilda lives with her Mom and Grandpa in their cafe. She doesn’t like her mom because she compares Matilda to her as a kid. When the Yellow Fever strikes, it throws everyone's life in jeopardy. As the fever gets worse, people start panicking and flee the city.

The stories of Fever 1793 and Copper Sun on the surface do not demonstrate any similarities, but deeper into the meanings of both stories show us otherwise. Copper Sun is the story of Amari, a young tribal girl in africa stolen from her homeland to become a slave. She endures countless acts of cruelty, is subjected to pain and suffering, and is forced to fight for not only her freedom- but her life. The themes in this novel continue to delve deeper into the cruel reality of the human mind, but also the inner strength of the human spirit. Fever 1793 is the story of Mattie, living around the same time period. She is white, so she is not subjected to the same pain Amari has been. Initially, at least. Deeper into the novel as the flow of time progresses, Mattie too begins to accept the cold reality of life. Mattie experiences a deadly fever in her city that grips not only her, but members of her family. Since this disease is widespread and very lethal, people

“Never Give Up! You never know what is just around the corner.” is a quote that really fits our theme. Fever is about a city who the people in the city get yellow fever. Mattie (the main character) goes through many struggles such as losing her friend, having to find her mother and Eliza after some troubles pass with Grandfather, and much more. They never gave up though. In Fever, 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson shows us lots of themes through Mattie and Eliza. One of the themes that stood out is Never Give Up.

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when the Yellow Fever epidemic is flooding through the city. The novel is focused around Matilda or as she is called in the book Mattie Cook, and her family. Mattie is faced with many difficulties throughout the novel, including sickness, death, loss, and learning how to be independent. By using personification and descriptive word Anderson creates the theme that fear can cause people to mature or act differently in situations. At the start of the sickness spreading, (pages 68-69 ) Mattie’s mother Lucile is sick in bed with, what they were told was “just a virus”.

Fever,1793 by Laurie Hale’s Anderson is a historical fiction book about yellow fever. Fever is about a girl named Mattie and her family, and how the get through the pestilence. The reader, believes the theme is to never give up, even in the hard times. The reasons why the reader believes this is the theme, is because perseverance can help you survive through the hard times, even when it would be easier to give up its better to persevere, and when you persevere you reach your goals.

In the town of Hamelin, now called Hameln, there is a street in which no one can play music or dance. This is because of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who was reported to have kidnapped 130 children, after the townspeople refused him payment. He was promised payment for ridding the town of rats. Although, is this story really telling the truth? Experts cannot deny that a tragedy happened, but just what was it? Did am mysterious man really kidnap 130 children and lead them off into the mountains? Or, perhaps, is there a more logical explanation? Maybe there is no explanation that our minds can comprehend that sits there, waiting in the abyss for the day to come when we can understand it. Because of the lack of original sources, there

The 1st way she was responsible in Fever 1793 was how she took care of her mom while the mom was suffering from yellow fever. Matilda was able to calm her mother(Lucille) down while Lucille was coughing up blood, which if she didn’t Lucille might have died. Matilda also calmed Lucille down when Lucille kept screaming at Matilda to leave, but Matilda stayed relaxed and didn’t panic as someone thoughtless or. In conclusion, The theme of responsibility can be seen in “Fever 1793 from how Matilda was she dealt with her mother while the mother was severely ill.

Fever 1793 is a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson that describes how Yellow Fever affected lives of everybody during the three months of sickness and panic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Life today is more straightforward than it was in 1793 because of the technology. Fever 1793 is a story about a young girl, Matilda “Mattie” Cook, who faces challenges surviving in a Yellow Fever- struck city (Philadelphia). Mattie loses her grandfather on her journey of survival and her mother is nowhere to be seen, leaving Mattie to grow up and survive her journey alone. If the story was taking place in modern times, Mattie and the rest of Philadelphia would not struggle as much as they did in the story. The modern day technology that is here today allows this generation to progress through life smoother. Today’s technology would have a significant, positive impact on the community during 1793. If the people of Philadelphia had the knowledge of symptoms and treatments of Yellow Fever, they would have known for sure if the fever was occurring in the beginning and they would have also known how the fever was to

Everyone can relate to getting sick and having to go to the doctors and going to pick up medicine at a pharmacist.But what you might not know is how people with illnesses or some sick symptoms were treated in the Medieval days.Receiving medication is something a bit different.People in Medieval times would go to the doctors. However the doctors had extremely limited knowledge and really did not know what caused illnesses.It was hard enough for ordinary poorer people or people who did not live in big main towns to get medical help.They had a difficult time for access doctors Those who were in need of medical assistance in those situations may have and ask local people who had medical knowledge.Most people when they had minor symptoms and nothing to serious hat required medical assistance,Such as upset stomachs,headaches,eye problems,exd.They Would go to the apothecary and there they would be given mixtures of