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==Characters== |
==Characters== |
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Matilda- A |
Matilda- A 98 year old girl who attempts to do as little work as possible, but finds that difficult as the fever rages through the town. |
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Mother- A hardworking woman who labors endlessly at the coffeehouse, right where she belongs. mother of Matilda. She is the first in the family to get sick. |
Mother- A hardworking woman who labors endlessly at the coffeehouse, right where she belongs. mother of Matilda. She is the first in the family to get sick. |
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Grandfather- Matilda's grandfather (father's father), fought with Washington in a war. Tough, but generous with a sweet heart. He passes away due to |
Grandfather- Matilda's grandfather (father's father), fought with Washington in a war. Tough, but generous with a sweet heart. He passes away due to crazy woman with bricks in there purse breaking into the coffeehouse. |
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Eliza- |
Eliza- Green woman who was once a slave, whose deceased husband bought her freedom. Works in the coffeehouse as the chef but retires to her brother's house at the end of the day. |
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Nathaniel Benson- Matilda's friend and the painter Mr. Peale's apprentice. |
Nathaniel Benson- Matilda's friend and the painter Mr. Peale's apprentice. |
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| File:Fever 1793.jpg The cover of Fever, 1793 | |
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
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| Cover artist | Buck Lane |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | September 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 251 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0689838583 |
| OCLC | 44089242 |
| LC Class | PZ7.A54385 Fe 2000 |
Fever, 1793 is a historical novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that was published in 2000. Set during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, its protagonist and narrator is a teenage girl named Matilda Cook who lives with her hardworking mother, tough grandfather, and their ex- slave chef, Eliza, in the apartment on top of their family coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Matilda ("Mattie") Cook is a 14 year old girl with big dreams for her family's coffeehouse. After her father's death, she hoped to build an extention to the coffeehouse, and escape the title: "Little Mattie". But when the Yellow Fever Epidemic outbreaks during the long hot summer, people flee the city or die. Matilda realizes she needs to focus on something else now: fighting for her own life and the lives of her loved ones.
At a book talk at The Elisabeth Morrow School, Anderson revealed she was thinking of making a sequel to Fever, which would also explain what happened to Matilda's parrot George (who is the parrot that appeared in Forge).[citation needed]
Characters
Matilda- A 98 year old girl who attempts to do as little work as possible, but finds that difficult as the fever rages through the town.
Mother- A hardworking woman who labors endlessly at the coffeehouse, right where she belongs. mother of Matilda. She is the first in the family to get sick.
Grandfather- Matilda's grandfather (father's father), fought with Washington in a war. Tough, but generous with a sweet heart. He passes away due to crazy woman with bricks in there purse breaking into the coffeehouse.
Eliza- Green woman who was once a slave, whose deceased husband bought her freedom. Works in the coffeehouse as the chef but retires to her brother's house at the end of the day.
Nathaniel Benson- Matilda's friend and the painter Mr. Peale's apprentice.
Polly- Matilda's childhood friend and one of the first to die of the fever..
Plot
Matilda lives with her mother and helps around the thriving coffeehouse without her father. But Yellow Fever is spreading through Philadelphia, and one by one the people close to Matilda are catching it. First, many of her neighbors catch it, then her childhood friends, including Polly, then her mother. She flees the city with her grandfather. They get left behind by the people they were riding with because they believed that her grandfather had the fever. While Matilda is trying to keep her grandfather alive she falls down with the fever. She is brought to a hospital and kept there for a few weeks. When they return they find their house ruined because someone broke in. That night, someone breaks in and they kill her grandfather and run because Matilda cuts one of the men with her grandfather's sword. Her mother is gone, and Matilda's fighting against her mind, her tiredness, and the plague that wiped out 5,000 people in 3 months. Matilda finds a little girl by herself. She takes her in as her own. Setting out with the coffeehouse cook Eliza, Matilda helps and feeds the sick as much as she can before the first frost. In the end everything turns out fine and they live happily ever after
Laurie Halse Anderson
She is also the author of "Chains," which follows the story of a slave during the American Revolution. In a book talk at the Elisabeth Morrow School, Anderson revealed Fever 1793 takes place in the same universe as the Chains series.