Fever 1793
In the summer of 1793 a deadly sickness called Yellow fever spreads everywhere and affects almost everyone, including a young fourteen year old girl, named Matilda, but goes by Mattie. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her family owns a coffee shop in a small wooden building. When Mattie hears about the yellow fever that is caused by a female mosquito bite she becomes so worried. Almost the whole city gets infection with this fever, including Mattie's mother. Her mother becomes extremely ill and gets worse everyday. She stays home all the time in bed. If this fever were to happen today people who became ill would be rushed to the hospital as soon as possible, and it probably wouldn't have spread as fast. Also today …show more content…
Mattie took this death hard. She loved her mother so dearly but she knew that now she had to go live with her grandfather. After the death her mother, her grandfather decides that he can’t stay in Philadelphia anymore, because he wants to be safe from the sickness, so, after hours of traveling in carriages they are told that they have to move back to Philadelphia because the fever was everywhere there is nothing that they can do to escape it so they might as well just go back and hope for the best. If this story was during this time period we wouldn't ride in carriages to places that are hours away. Also it would be all over social media, and the news that the fever was in other places. When she returns back to Philadelphia she meets a boy named Nathaniel Benson, she hangs out with him a lot and tells him stories about her mother. One night when everything was silent and the weather was just starting to cool Mattie heard a gun shot in her home, she ran to the kitchen and seen her grandfather lying on the floor. He was shot by someone who broke into their home. If this were to happen today she could have called someone right then and he could have lived or maybe if she had an alarm system the people who broke in would have been scared
In the summer of 1793 a deadly sickness called Yellow fever spreads everywhere and affects almost everyone, including a young fourteen year old girl, named Matilda, but goes by Mattie. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her family owns a coffee shop in a small wooden building. When Mattie hears about the yellow fever that is caused by a female mosquito bite she becomes so worried. Almost the whole city gets infection with this fever, including Mattie's mother. Her mother becomes extremely ill and gets worse everyday. She stays home all the time in bed. If this fever were to happen today people who became ill would be rushed to the hospital as soon as possible, and it probably wouldn't have spread as fast. Also today …show more content…
Mattie took this death hard. She loved her mother so dearly but she knew that now she had to go live with her grandfather. After the death her mother, her grandfather decides that he can’t stay in Philadelphia anymore, because he wants to be safe from the sickness, so, after hours of traveling in carriages they are told that they have to move back to Philadelphia because the fever was everywhere there is nothing that they can do to escape it so they might as well just go back and hope for the best. If this story was during this time period we wouldn't ride in carriages to places that are hours away. Also it would be all over social media, and the news that the fever was in other places. When she returns back to Philadelphia she meets a boy named Nathaniel Benson, she hangs out with him a lot and tells him stories about her mother. One night when everything was silent and the weather was just starting to cool Mattie heard a gun shot in her home, she ran to the kitchen and seen her grandfather lying on the floor. He was shot by someone who broke into their home. If this were to happen today she could have called someone right then and he could have lived or maybe if she had an alarm system the people who broke in would have been scared