Matilda (Mattie) Cook displays many of our schools core values during her story. The core values at Palm Beach Day are as follows. Trust, respect, integrity, empathy, responsibility, and grit. In my opinion, the core values that Mattie demonstrate the most are responsibility and grit. I say this because in the the story, the town of Philadelphia is undergoing a terrible sickness called yellow fever and Mattie must learn to take care of her grandfather and herself because her mother catches the fever. She shows grit when she and her grandfather are on their way home from the hospital and her grandfather becomes fatigued and is not able to find food. Mattie is forced to go find food because if she didn’t she and her grandfather would die of
