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Atmosphere of fear in literature
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Cece Baumann 3/12/15 Fever 1793 "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a girl named Matilda Cook. Matilda lives with her mother, grandfather, their cat Siles and her grandfathers bird King George. They all live in their coffee house in Philadelphia. They have a cook named Eliza who is a free black woman. They also have a server girl named Polly.
Josie Cormier from the novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult was guilty of killing her boyfriend, Matt Royston. She confessed to it when she went to court for Peter’s trial. She hadn’t told anyone about what she did for five months. Only one other person knew, because he watched her kill Matt and told her he wouldn’t tell anyone: Peter. Matt had been an abusive boyfriend, both mentally and physically.
At the outbreak of World War I, Lucy Paignton-Fox enlists in the Australian Army Nursing Service and leaves her family’s cattle station in the Northern Territory to join the war effort. During the Gallipoli campaign she serves in hospitals in Egypt, but when the Anzacs are posted to France she moves with them. A talented and spirited nurse, with dreams of one day becoming a doctor, Lucy finds more opportunities than she ever imagined: working alongside doctors and surgeons, sharing the soldiers’ dangers, helping them through their pain, and making lifelong friends. But with war comes suffering.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Caroline is treated poorly because some of her students think she is picking on a kid that comes from a poor family. It is the first day of first grade for Scout and Miss Caroline is her teacher. Miss Caroline's students do not realize that she is not trying to pick on a student named Walter when she tries to be nice by paying for his lunch but does not know that he would have to pay the money back. “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you”.(Lee 28)
The Way Matilda Has Prospered In the book, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, we comprehend that Mattie has changed substantially. In the beginning of the book, Mattie is self-absorbed and helpless.
Now Mathilda Cook, the protagonist, develops throughout the story as a result of the central conflict because the Yellow Fever makes her stronger, more responsible and more courageous. In the beginning of the book, the author portrays Mattie as a typical child wanting to go back to sleep and ignore her chores. This is demonstrated when her mom tells her, “Get out of bed, Mathilda . . . You’re sleeping the day away.”
Fever 1793 was written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Matilda (the daughter of Ms. Cook) and her family endured many hardships during the yellow fever epidemic. During the epidemic, many people died and moved out of city because of how dangerous it was at the time. Some hardships that Mattie and her family encountered were: losing her grandfather, being separated from her mother, and being judged for opening the coffeehouse. These three reasons show that Matilda and her family endured many hardships.
Betrayal and revenge can be powerful motivators in a story. Legend by Marie Lu follows June Iparis and Daniel Wing, also known as Day, living in the Republic. The Republic forces children to take a test called a Trial when they reach a certain age, so while June scored perfectly, Day scored below average, forcing him to run away from his family to live as a criminal on the streets. When June’s brother is killed, everyone suspects Day as the culprit. The Republic sends June undercover to find and arrest Day for his crimes.
However, this adventure of hers comes with many risks and dangers. Regardless, Pelly is determined to find the sick man and save her dear friend, even if it means dealing with evil itself. This novel is organized into nineteen chapters, all from the protagonist’s point of view. The first couple of chapters describe Pelly’s lifestyle after all the therapy and help she received after the incident with her best friend at the mall. At the beginning of the novel Pelly is a very vulnerable and weak sixteen year old girl who has trouble dealing her depression and anxiety.
My sweet Mattie…. Love you” (147; ch. 19). After watching the light fade out of “Grandfather’s” eyes, Matilda, walked down the dismal, somber, abandoned avenue. She came upon two unexpected girls who help her climb out of her deep, dark ditch of despair. As “Grandfather” died by leaving a window ajar, Nell was found by a misplacement of a step.
Matilda’s mom is starting to get scared and worried about her daughter, she consider to leave town to go to Virginia. Family friends start getting sick and a more and more people are leaving. Matilda isn’t worried so much compared to everyone else, she is just upset that they might sell the coffee shop. Her cook Eliza helps out majorly when her mom starts getting sick. They do not know if she has yellow fever yet, but it takes a major turn on Matilda.
Having Flaws doesn’t mean they are Flawed Everyone wants to fit in. People go to great lengths just to fit in. By changing the way they dress, act, look, pushing their true self aside, and by pretending to be who they think they should be instead of who they are. For most of her life, this hasn’t been a problem for Dahlia.
The quotes in the Red Pony has deep a meaning. You can apply them to your daily life or use them to understand people better. On page__ “Hold onto what makes you happy, if it tries to buck you off, just hold on even tighter” This quote means that no matter how hurt you may get from the comments of others or the physical activity may hurt you,don’t give-up and just try again harder again!
This passage explains love and emotional significance in the war . Although the small role of women in The things they carried ,it is an importance threw out the book. Females character’s Martha ,Mary Anne and Kathleen have all effects on the men. Different women in the book have different effects on the men and affect them in different ways .For an example “Jimmy cross carried letters from a girl who named , Martha who 's an English major at Mount Sebastian College.
Sedgwick in her Epistemology of the Closet, claims that “many of the major nodes of thought and knowledge in twentieth-century Western culture as a whole are structures—indeed, fractured—by a chronic, now endemic crisis of homo/heterosexual definition” (Sedgwick 2008, 1). Sedgwick argues that it is a crisis “indicatively male, dating from the end of the nineteenth century” (1).The author says that “virtually any aspect of modern Western culture must be, not merely incomplete, but damaged in its central substance to the degree that it does not incorporate a critical analysis of modern homo/heterosexual definition” (1). Sedgwick is aligning with some of the arguments that Butler also addresses in her work, she is tackling the constraints of binaries and the rigidity they imply. Sedgwick abounds in that statement saying that “the appropriate place for the critical analysis to begin is from the relatively decentered perspective of modern gay and antihomophobic theory” (1). The epistemology of the closet is the: [i]dea that thought itself is structured by homosexual/heterosexual definitions, which damages our ability to think.