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Character Analysis Of Mattie In Fever 1793

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Matilda also known as Mattie. A teen living in Philadelphia in the year 1793 when the horror rises. Mattie lives with her Mother Lucille, Grandfather Captain William Farnsworth Cook and her cat.
Mattie is the main character in Fever 1793, and she had lot of encounters with adversity and her are some of the ways she dealt with them.

The main way Mattie faced adversity that started it all was when Mattie and her grandfather got kicked out of the wagon when they were on their way to Ludington’s farm and a doctor thought that Mattie’s grandfather had the fever. They were left on the side of the road with no food no clothes and none of their suitcases and her grandfather was sick. Mattie got her grandfather over to a tree and laid him down. She saw some willow trees and one military trick was if you find a willow tree water is nearby. Mattie found some water and food for her grandfather. Even though they had food and water it was still a long way back to the next town and her grandfather was sick in hot weather. While Mattie was trying to get more food she passed out …show more content…

Robbers had invaded their house and grandfather said it was not like that the other day when he came. That night the robbers came again and Mattie wasn’t sure what to do so she ran for it but was grab before she could escape. The robbers tied her up and her grandfather came walking down the stairs with a musket and fired off a round. After he had shot a robber jumped on top of him and Mattie grabbed a sword and slashed the sword through the robbers back and ran out of the house and Mattie chased him. When Mattie came back her grandfather was about to die. Mattie didn’t know where to go or who to go to and that’s when she found a little girl named Nell that had lost her mother in the fever. Mattie decided to take Nell and to keep looking for her Mother or Eliza and eventually she found Eliza and found out where her mother

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