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Fever Year By Don Brown

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The main social issue in the graphic novel Fever Year by Don Brown affects more than one person. The main social issue in the story is illness, and the Spanish Flu affected a very large group of people around the world. In the story it states, “One-third of the world has been infected” (Brown 81). This shows a lot of the world’s population is affected by just one virus. The Spanish Flu was an epidemic because of how quickly it spread and because of that it affected the whole world. Some places that were affected were the US and France. The virus did more than just infect and kill people; it affected community things like stores and schools. In the text, the author writes, “Public leaders scramble to meet the widening infection and closed theaters,
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