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Matilda Matie Cook Analysis

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Matilda "Mattie" Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather (a former military man), a parrot named King George, and an orange cat named Silas. Eliza, a free black woman, is the coffeehouse cook. A typical teenager, Mattie is always in the middle of daydreams, beginning to notice boys and getting into all kinds of arguments with her single mother, Lucille. (Sounds like some things never change.)
What happens to the main characters?What do they learn from their experiences?One day, the coffeehouse's serving girl, Polly, doesn't show up for work. Turns out she came down with a case of the fever, and the next thing you know, she's being buried. Scary, right? Matilda sure thinks so. More and more cases of the fever start popping up, and rumors of an epidemic spread through the coffeehouse and across the city. Around this time, we're also introduced to the ever-so-dreamy Nathaniel Benson, a painter's apprentice, who Matilda runs into at the marketplace. The two have been friends for a long time, but Matilda is starting to see the chap in a whole new, hearts-and-flowers kind of light.Chapeter 2
Anyhow, Matilda's very own mother, Lucille, is the next person to fall ill. One doctor after another visits the coffeehouse and, soon enough, they start draining her blood in an effort to cure her. …show more content…

Matilda does her best to provide food for herself and her grandfather, scavenging what she can from the small garden. One night, though, robbers enter the coffeehouse through an open window and attack Mattie, who's sleeping downstairs. Grandfather intervenes and gets injured in a scuffle with one of the robbers. He dies with Matilda at his side. It's all very, very sad, and Mattie, completely alone now, takes it pretty darn

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Until polly arrives matilda will have to do her chores and work. “Matilda polly’s dead”. Most people have to work real hard for the valuables but end up selling them to make money to afford

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Although in doing so it led to his own death. Two men entered the coffeehouse to steal, but Matilda was caught after she knocked down one of the men. Grandfather had heard and walked down stairs with his rifle; he tried to shoot one of the men but had missed. The other man had scrambled out the window. The man that grandfather had trid shoot jumped on him and punched him in the face and

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Matilda’s mother insists Matilda leave home in order to protect her from the fever. Matilda and her grandfather try to leave but they are stopped by guards and are turned away when grandfather is proclaimed sick. Matilda and her grandfather are stranded in the desert and Matilda gets sick. Matilda’s grandfather brings her to Bush Hill, a place where yellow fever patients are brought to heal. Lucille, Matilda’s mother, is not at Bush Hill, which leads to the reader to think that Matilda’s mother is dead.

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However, because they did not know how the disease was being spread, there was very little the doctors could do to prevent it. When the fever reaches Mattie’s house, it infects her mother and forces Mattie and her grandfather to vacate the area. When they return, all is out of

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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.

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In 1793 in philadelphia there was a outbreak of a deadly fever. This fever was know as Yellow fever. In the book Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson. The main theme is Death. This book is about a young woman named Mattie who lives through the fever.

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Matilda needs to become more responsible cause her mother is ill. The doctor comes to the coffee shop to check Lucille, Mattie’s mom. He announces that Lucille has yellow fever. The mom and grandfather make a quick decision and decides to send Mattie and her grandfather to Virginia. Matilda is

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Anderson uses Matilda’s loss of people and her determination to keep going to show her overcoming challenges during the yellow fever epidemic. In multiple situations, Matilda was shown being separated from the people she holds closest to her. The most noteworthy of these events was when she had to leave her mother behind in Philadelphia and venture to safer lands and when her grandfather died before her eyes. After her mom falls sick the Doctor advising her confirms that she does, in fact, have yellow fever, and while talking to Mattie’s grandfather says “‘I advise you to send Matilda out of the city at once. ’”(pg.

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