The women support each other and give each other the courage to continue on despite the hostile circumstances that surround them. Henri Pichot The owner of the plantation that once employed Miss Emma and Tante Lou as cook and housekeeper. Dr. Joseph He's the school superintendent and complains about the hassle of checking the plantation school's progress once a year.
Fever “Shaft of death fly closer and closer to us every day” (Dr. Benjamin Rush). In the novel Fever 1793 William Farnsworth Cook is the grandfather of Matilda Cook. He was also Captain of the Pennsylvania Fifth Regiment. One pivotal moment in the chaters life is when William tried to protect Matilda from the attackers that had invaded the coffeehouse.
Deborah and Skloot visit Crownsville Hospital Center and meet Paul Lurz, and he gives them a picture of Elsie and what medical records he has on her. They found out that most of the records were destroyed due to asbestos, and that Elsie had undergone Pneumoencephalography, an experimental treatment. Deborah and Skloot talk about their findings so far and compare notes, but have an argument where Deborah pins Skloot to the wall. Deborah decides she’s going to open a museum in honor of her mother. She and Skloot visit her brother Gary and Deborah starts to freak out.
The second part of the novel was intriguing to me because the book explained how the patients were diagnosed. Usually when the doctor came to the patient's home, after a few checks, they would diagnose the patient had yellow fever although they only had a minor summer grippe of a type of fever. This was mainly shown when a doctor came to diagnose Lucille and immediately said she had yellow fever. The main reason this was done was because the doctors thought that disease was spread through smell or by refugees who lived by the river instead of understanding that the disease was spread by mosquitoes. The main characters in this part of the novel were Mrs. Flagg, Dr. Deveze, Grandpa, and Matilda.
As the Mayor of Philadelphia, Mayor Matthew Clarkson demonstrated a strong sense of duty throughout the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. He had felt that he should stay in Philadelphia because the people in Philadelphia where his family and if he had left Philadelphia he would have left his family. It was illegal for him to stay he had broken the law so he can stay in Philadelphia. The yellow fever did not treat his family well it had killed his youngest son and his wife had caught it and he still didn’t leave. “... yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard” (Murphy 24).
As time passes, mother gets better, but now Ruth May rapidly becomes sick and stays in bed most of the day. The family later found out she was sick of malaria because she didn’t’ take her pills to prevent catching a viruses a disease. Meanwhile, Leah begins to spend time with the Kilanga teacher, Anatole. They talk about the Congo, justice, and its independence. On the other hand, Leah starts to get good at hunting thanks to Nelson who teaches her how to use the arrow.
The main character of the book, Allison Mackenzie, came from a middle-class family that owned a home off Chestnut Street. Her mother, Constance, owned a shop in town called the Thrifty Corner Apparel Shoppe. Allison was born out of wedlock and her father was out of the picture. Constance was ashamed of this fact and hide her secret past from society. The situation surrounding Allison was an example of the time period’s denial of family dysfunction.
When Melinda loses her only friend, her depression grows and she begins skipping class. Mr. Freeman and David Petrakis are the only people who notice Melinda’s
Yellow Fever Essay In 1793 a rapid fever ran through the city of Philadelphia like the fastest track runner in the world. That fever was called yellow fever. If you had a despicable case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French doctor or an American doctor to treat you. Yellow fever came to Philadelphia by foreign ships.
To begin with, in the beginning of the book Jamie gets asked by a classmate to help decorate posters for the school dance. Jamie was using her glitter powers to make amazing posters at home, but all of a sudden her dog Stinker gets ahold of the glitter. He eats all the glitter and gets sick, so Jamie and her best friend Isabella brought Stinker to the vet. That 's when both girls see Angelina (Jamie’s future cousin and school enimie) with her rescue dog Sticky Buns. To end off, the girls go home after Stinker was clarified by the vet in good condition.
Hilly is the best mother in the “Women’s League”. When her kids need her she’s there, hand and foot. Hilly gives her daughter compliments back to back; like “you’re beautiful”. And Hilly’s always kissing little Will on the forehead. These are her ways of showing her kids that she loves them.
“Bring out your dead.” In 1793 Yellow Fever wiped out almost all of the population of Philadelphia. I, Ida Brown, sister of Clara and Elizabeth Brown, am a fever specialist in Philadelphia trying to cure this apocalyptic epidemic. We three were sent by King George III here, his orders. The French doctors just arrived from Haiti.
Sylvia feels she betrayed by her best friend because at first they hate Miss Moore and after the trip, everything has changed. However, Sylvia realizes that what Sugar say are all true. Sylvia and other children understand what Miss Moore is trying to teach them a lesson. Sylvia changes her point of
Characterization in “Everyday use” In “Everyday Use” Alice Walker creates the characters of Mom, Maggie, and Dee in order to explore the appreciation and values of African American culture and what it stands for. The story grows around one daughter Dee coming back home to visit her family. As one is introduced to the characters in “Everyday Use”, it becomes noticeable that the two sisters, Maggie and Dee, are very different. Maggie is portrayed as a homely and ignorant girl, while Dee is portrayed as a beautiful and educated woman.
After Matilda retaliates against her parents, her dad finally allows her to go to the rundown Crunchem Elementary School where the principal’s name is Agatha Trunchbull. Miss Trunchbull enjoys giving the elementary children violent and harsh punishments for the fun of it.
