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.
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.
This illustrates how Mattie feels confident, annoyed, and frustrated, and these feelings lead her to stepping up during tough times and taking charge. Anderson’s amazing story, Fever 1793, shows the theme that stepping up during tough times is important. It is seen how this is possible through the the way the theme impacts the characters and the different author’s craft moves the author
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.
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a normal fourteen year old girl named Matilda Cook, who was working at the family’s coffee shop, living life in search of her identity. Matilda went through life always working and being lectured by her mother about right from wrong, what’s lady like and what’s not. She had a normal life, her family wasn’t the riches but she had everything she needed, until the an illness called yellow fever came to Philadelphia. When the fever hit people were leaving to other places with their family, but the rest who were too poor to pay for a wagon, or who already had the fever stayed in Philadelphia. One of the people who had caught the yellow fever was Mattie’s mother.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
