Literary Essay: “Fever 1793” Laurie Anderson’s historical fiction story, Fever 1793 is about the big massacre that happened in Philadelphia. The disease (Yellow Fever) destroyed everything in its path by sickening people and even killing them. The feeling of losing loved one's changed everyone. Not just emotionally, but also physically. By using emotions within sentences and dialogue, Lisa Anderson shows the lesson death can change a person. Because of this whole epidemic, Mattie has grown more mature and independent which is a theme that Lisa Halse Anderson displays near the middle to end of the book. Her grandfather died while robbers broke into their house trying to steal things. From there on Mattie was all by herself hunting for
