Matilda’s mom was very cautious about yellow fever, she never wanted Matilda to leave the house because her mom was afraid that she might get sick. “Off with you now and take your cargo... The man turned back and looked at the wheelbarrow and dumped the woman on the street. “Mother!” I screamed” (pg 89-90)
In the book “fever” there lived a girl named Mattie (cook) short for Matilda. She’s the main character. She lives and works in coffeehouse. There is this killer disease going around called the fever making people sick and die. In this story, you will have to reveal the characters experiences by time and place, mood
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.
Did you know that in 1793, more than 5000 people died from the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia? The book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a historical fiction about a girl named Matilda trying to survive against yellow fever with Her Mother, Grandfather, and Eliza in Philadelphia. The theme of the book is “Perseverance allows the overcoming of hardships and brings hope to those who persevere.” During the novel Fever 1793, Matilda endured through the entire Yellow Fever epidemic with it having ups and downs that built hope and destroyed it completely, this is a reason that perseverance allows the overcoming of hardships and brings hope to those who persevere. One example is when Mattie was with a child to take care of and is trying
Sometimes something happens in life that forces you to grow up, even if you don’t want to or don’t feel like you are ready. The historical fiction book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a girl named Mattie who is forced to grow up when she goes through many hardships during the Yellow Fever epidemic. Without her mom and grandfather to rely on, and many things that have to get done, Mattie has to figure things out and do things on her own. As the story goes on, Mattie goes from being lazy to being dependable.
The reader knows that all was not right in the city because Jim talks about how they had influxes of pigeons and the drought or heat may have been the cause of the fevers. On page 11 in the first paragraph it talks about Catherine LeMaigre and how she was becoming sick. “It was clear that thirty-three-year-old Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. Between agonized gasps and groans she muttered that her stomach felt as if it were burning up.
Fever 1793 In difficult circumstances people show bravery that they thought they did not have. In fever 1793, characters experience a great deal of loss. For example Nell losing her family, or Mattie losing her grandfather. Even though these bad circumstances have been occurring, characters are getting brave.
In 1793 a fever infected Philadelphia that killed 10% of its population. The book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a historical fiction from a young girl named Matilda’s perspective. The book is about her experience dealing with the Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. She learned many lessons and one of them was that fear can control you. Some of the reasons fear can control you is how it can make you leave what you know, it can make you turn on people, and it can make you vulnerable.
Throughout Fever 1793 several characters experience significant challenges or adverse situations but the one character that I think experienced the most challenges and was faced with the most adversity was Mattie. Grandfather’s death is when Mattie was faced with the most adversity. She changed a lot after his death, she became mentally stronger. Also, I learned a lot about life from Mattie’s response to her grandfather’s death.
Many families suffered from economic hardships as well as emotional distress. Therefore the Braddock family overcame there challenges which are not having much to eat, not having money, and not having a place to live. To start with, one of the problems the Braddock family had was not having enough food to feed the whole family. For example, in
They overcame their challenges, although, they struggled along the way. Alexie and Douglass show their story to represent to others that may be in their position to have faith in all you do. Despite the fact that things get hard, it is how you finish that keeps you
Poets and other writers often express life through their works and characters. Some poems convey a depressing, gloomy attitude towards life, while others show the world as a joyful and simple place. Two skilled creative writers, Edgar Lee Masters and Edwin Arlington Robinson, wrote detailed poems describing the lives of characters with extremely different perspectives on life. Many obvious differences can be identified between the lives of Robinson’s Miniver Cheevy and Masters’s Lucinda Matlock. Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem about Miniver Cheevy paints life as miserable and useless.
In real life there are many hardships that face us everyday, making our lives more difficult. Hardships are something that happens in everyone 's life, they teach us valuable lessons that make us wiser by giving us a different perspective on life. The experiences that many of the first colonists endured when they first came to the new land; America, were extreme. They came from a place where they had all of the materials and equipment they needed, into a place where they were they were fighting to stay alive everyday.
Families “Crumbling” Down: Allusions to a Classic Fairytale Families are fragile and without the proper stability, they can easily fall apart. Two flawed families are portrayed in “The Farmer’s Children” and “Hansel and Gretel”. Hansel and Gretel have a wicked stepmother, and a father who obeys her selfish orders. Similarly, Emerson and Cato have a careless stepmother, and a clueless father. In both tales, this leads to families falling apart.
“Another source of greatness is difficulty. When any work seems to have required immense force and labour to effect it, the idea is grand” -Edmund Burke”. Obstacles are challenges that make a better version of ourselves, doors that we need to open to achieve greatness and success. These obstacles can range from your school work to the death of a loved one.
