Laurie Anderson’s historical fiction book, Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia during the 1700s. This book mentions about a girl and her family living during the Yellow Fever epidemic. Throughout the story Mattie loses and gains family members while they are trying to protect her. Mattie goes through one of the worst epidemics in the history of Philadelphia, and her family tries to take care of her during it. Anderson uses description and imagery in the story to portray the theme, family is always trying to protect each other.
The novel goes through many recurring themes such as child abuse, social and economic differences, and legitimacy. These themes not only impact the main character but all the characters as a whole. It is the harrowing story of how Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright, a child must learn to cope and deal with the many terrible atrocities that are inflicted upon her by her stepfather, “Daddy Glen.” Before Bone could even coherently make a judgment upon herself she was labeled as an outcast. She was a sin and mistake that should be labeled as such for the world to know about it.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel, Fever 1793, appears in the city of Philadelphia. Matilda Cook, a young girl, lived in a coffeehouse with her widowed mother and grandfather. Soon disease breaks out and clears the streets of Philadelphia. Using descriptive language and inner thoughts Laurie Halse creates a message that when there are hardships in life you change.
The story of one kid’s upside down life in the neighborhood of Harlem is told by Walter Dean Myers who creates a very interesting situation in a book called Scorpions. Jamal Hicks, a boy like no other, faces the choice of a life of peace or violence, especially when payback is so tempting. In addition, Jamal tries to avoid meeting the horrible fate of his older brother, currently in jail for stabbing someone. At home, Jamal is saddened by his mother crying because of Randy’s departure and her efforts for his reappeal. In school, Jamal is accused of not doing his homework and being late several times.
The society in this book is basically the epitome of a dystopia. It has a totalitarian government and everything about the world the people live in is a frightening nightmare. The government has completely dehumanized the way people live their lives. People in this dystopia aren’t even actually human any more. They aren’t even born the natural way through reproduction, they are created.
First, the book is a quick read. Life is busy. Especially for high school students with their many extracurricular activities, volunteer duties, and of course homework. This book will take just a few hours to read and anyone would be able to fit it in a crazy
This historical fiction book by Laurie Halse Anderson is about how people living in Philadelphia at the time of the spread of Yellow Fever. I would recommend this book to lovers of the historical fiction genre. In the summer of 1793, Philadelphia, Matilda Cook lived with her grandfather and mother above their coffeehouse. Matilda, her mother, and their worker Eliza worked hard selling treats, meals, and drinks at their coffeehouse.
Matthew the creator of the review acknowledges the poor living conditions and the epidemic diseases of the times. The reviewer further goes on to summarize the novel and explains the immigrant ethnicities and how they played a role to giving examples of the living conditions in the tenements. The second person to review the novel Roy describes the novel of the many people who died during The Progressive era. He goes on to speak of the segregation of the ethnicities and also the separation of the wealthy and people living in poverty. Further in the review he gives a short biography of the
The novel is set in the year of 2025, where the world is overrun by corruption, greed, criminals, violence, famine, thirst, slavery and division. The main character, Lauren Olamina, narrates her life and journey in the novel. Lauren describes the horrendous and corrupt world around her and notes of the population’s response to the violent acts. Lauren views the world around her when she
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But few people admired them. They were just more bad weather and more bad gravity that families endured from time to time.” (130) The depiction of post-flu Manhattan shows a world in which hierarchy is nearly meaningless, with many people actually wanting to be slaves, and the equality of almost everyone in the post-flu Manhattan society. Despite this, the protagonist is still called the “King of Candlesticks” a position with no power.
The novel is set in a dystopian future that illustrates the collapse of the US government, a new theocracy taking over, and how the theocracy has supposedly solved the problem of fertility with the creation
This cautionary novel portrays the drastic changes that can occur in a seemingly ordinary society like ours, causing readers to
