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Fever 1793
In Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793, Nell is a young girl who becomes orphaned and homeless after her mother dies of yellow fever. Matilda, the novel's main character, discovers her crying in the...
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Fever 1793
Matilda "Mattie" Cook is a young girl living in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather if 1793. In the first chapter, which takes place on August 16th, Mattie wakes up on a very hot morning...
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Fever 1793
Fever 1793 is a work of historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson concerning a widespread illness known as "Yellow Fever" spread by infected mosquitoes that many people in Philadelphia,...
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Fever 1793
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who led the medical fight against the yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793, asked free Africans in the city to help treat the fever victims because he believed that they were...
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Fever 1793
In Chapter 7, Matilda (or "Mattie") visits the Ogilvie mansion with her mother. A maid leads them to a drawing room as large as the coffee shop, and the lengthy windows are dressed with expensive...
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson's historical novel Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia. As portrayed in the book, Philadelphia was then the nation's capital. The narrator of the novel mentions the State...
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Fever 1793
In this chapter, Mattie is fourteen years old. The chapter is dated August 16th, 1793. Therefore, if Mattie was four years old when the War of Independence ended in 1783, she would be fourteen in...
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Fever 1793
The main character (and narrator) of Mattie, or Matilda, demonstrates honesty in two ways: by being a typical teen living in the post-revolutionary period in America and by giving avid examples of...
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Fever 1793
The most important conflict in this novel is the internal conflict that Mattie has to face with death. As the events in the novel clearly demonstrate, humans are very frail creatures who can die...
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Fever 1793
When you are reading this book, it would be helpful for you to find out some background information so the history makes more sense to you. Basically, the book takes place during the Revolutionary...
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Fever 1793
Let us remember that the climax of a work of literature is the moment of heighest emotional intensity, which is what the rising action leads up to. If we think about the plot of this novel, then,...
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Fever 1793
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: United States of America. This was the Capitol at the time.
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Fever 1793
The main conflict is the fever and how it kills everyone. Also, the fever put people out of business because everyone went to their country homes.
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Fever 1793
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Fever 1793
They are thrown out of the wagon because a docter said that Matilda's Grandfather was infected with Yellow Fever.
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Fever 1793
nell, i believe, is about 3-5. i think that they mention her age somewhere in the book, though.
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Fever 1793
Mattie isn't truly troubled by this. She may be worried that they are returning when the fever has not totally passed and the plague might return. The return is a sign that the plague has passed...
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Fever 1793
Try doing a Google search of French medicine 1793. There is a little information in the Wikipedia article and more in an article on the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. American doctors were not used...
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1793" the War for Independence had ended in 1783 and is referenced on page 7. The narrator makes reference to black people in Philadelphia. She states that most of them living...
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Fever 1793
Mattie dislikes work and cleaning, though she has to do a great deal of work in her mother's coffeehouse. She particularly dislikes working in the heat and getting up early, and she longs for...
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Fever 1793
In the book Fever 1793 Mattie returns home from her stay at the hospital with her grandfather. She enters the coffee house and finds that it has been damaged. The furniture is all topsy turvy and...
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Fever 1793
When I give my students a book report, I usually include a handout of the required elements. You don't say if your teacher has given you any parameters for the book report, so I will give you some...
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Fever 1793
In writing a reaction essay, the teacher is having you express how the essay made you feel and why. What things within the book Fever 1773 made you react the way that you felt after reading the...
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Fever 1793
Dr. Deveze is a Frenchman who had dealt with the yellow fever before, probably from the colonies near the equator that France had. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a Scotsman who had not encountered the...
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Fever 1793
The cold weather brought about the end of the yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever is spread by mosquitoes; people continued to get sick as long as mosquitoes proliferated. Mosquitoes thrive in hot,...
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Fever 1793
In the book Fever 1773 Mattie is in search of finding her mother. A woman hits her on the back with a cane after she finds out that Mattie had been to the Bush Hill hospital. As she wandered up...
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1773" on page 197 the reader learns that the twins are coming down with the fever. It is ho outside and they open a window. Hot air blows in the window. Mattie realizes that...
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Fever 1793
After the fever time has passed Mattie is looking for candy and food for the twins and Eliza at the market. She is going from person to person trying to find out if anyone had seen her mother....
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1773" Mattie Cook's mother is a widow. She owns a coffeehouse with her father. It is a family owned business. Mattie and her grandfather dream about expanding he shop so that...
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Fever 1793
In the book Fever 1793 Eliza is the coffee house cook for Mattie and her family. Mattie and her grandfather struggle together through the fever outbreak. Mattie nearly dies but survives after...
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1773" Mattie and her grandfather had returned home from the hospital to find that someone had broken into and robbed the coffeehouse of all food items and messed it up. A little...
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Fever 1793
When George Washington returns to Philadelphia, it is a sign that the fever is over. As the president of his country, he would not be permitted to put himself into danger such as the plague...
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Fever 1793
In the beginning of the book Fever 1793 Mattie had been the one who helped in the coffeehouse with her family, but was not the one in charge. Her mother wants Mattie to leave the city as the fever...
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1773" Matilda and her grandfather returned home. Matti had been hospitalized because she had been very sick. She had survived but upon returning to the coffeehouse she found...
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Fever 1793
In the book "Fever 1793" Mattie and her grandfather were away at the hospital because Mattie was very sick. Upon their return they arrive at the coffee house to find the doors open. When they go...
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Fever 1793
Once a thriving city, Philadelphia has become a place where dead bodies are lying everywhere. There are also trenches that have been dug to place the dead. Thieves are taking advantage of the sick,...
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Fever 1793
The name of the "hospital" where Mattie wakes up is indeed Bush Hill. Bush Hill is a mansion with a terrible reputation. According to local gossip, "Bush Hill (is) one step away from Hell, filled...
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Fever 1793
There are a few things that the looters do not take. Some of them are important and can help Mattie and Grandfather right away, and some are not. One thing the thieves leave behind is the strongbox...
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Fever 1793
In the book Fever 1793 people are leaving the town to get away from the spread of fever. Yellow Fever is spreading and grandfather and Mattie's family decide that it is time for her to leave the...
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Fever 1793
On the road to Ludington, Mattie's grandfather tells Mattie that she is "turning into a regular scold." I believe that this reprimand might be more hurtful to Mattie than another for a couple of...
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Fever 1793
A scrap of yellow cloth tied to the door of plague houses was a sign of illness within. The pushcarts moving through the city was symbolic of the dead victims that needed someone to bury them, for...
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Fever 1793
At the dinner table grandfather suggests that the family go into the trade business and sell more types of goods. Mattie's wants to keep the coffeehouse and buy another urn but is concerned if...
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Fever 1793
Eliza is a freed African American slave. She works at a coffeehouse and is Mattie's best friend. She is around 30 years old. Eliza helps Mattie nurse and care for the sick people who are...
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Fever 1793
Mother and Matilda have received an invitation to afternoon tea from Mrs. Pernilla Ogilvie, a wealthy resident of Philadelphia. Mother is delighted to be asked to come, calling the invitation "the...
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Fever 1793
One reason Mother Smith is so gruff is that she was once a slave on a farm. When she leaves Eliza's house after ordering the narrator to stay and eat, she mutters to herself that she "Never thought...
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Fever 1793
Grandfather won his parrot in a card game. The parrot’s name is King George. King George was the King of England when the Patriots went to battle against English law. The Americans wanted to be...
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Fever 1793
Mattie begins her maturation when she flees from the city with her grandfather, they are abandoned, and she must take care of him with few resources. She uses the lessons about soldiering he taught...
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Fever 1793
September 25th turns out to be a good day for Mattie because for the first time since the onset of the fever in the city of Philadelphia, she has managed to get through the day with some semblance...
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Fever 1793
This novel is of the genre called historical fiction. Although the main characters and their dialogue is fictional,the story is based on real happenings in history. 1. historical- The city of...
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Fever 1793
The resolution (what happens after the climax of the story where the problem is resolved) is when Mattie's mother follows George Washington back into Philadelphia. His arrival signals the "all...
