The Burglars In Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793

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Have you ever had been alone in a time of need and loss? Unfortunately, people have to go through this all the time, in the book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, Mattie was alone with grandfather when he died and she said, “...Oh dear god please don’t go..”. Mattie was fearful throughout the book because burglars tried to robbed the house, when grandfather got beat up, and when grandfather died.
First of all, when the burglars broke into their house, she was frightened by their presence because burglars are a main threat to people in the fever, and they are also one of the worst thing you could have in a “fallout”. When they broke into the house, Mattie was scared because the burglars were going to take everything that they had left. In

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