What Does Lucille Symbolize In Fever 1793

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In the novel "Fever 1793" Laurie Halse Anderson writes about a teenager girl called Matilda Cook that she lives in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather above the family coffeehouse, which has been built by her father who died two months after the coffeehouse had opened. The coffeehouse was profitable and successful until the yellow fever epidemic has spread in the city. Mattie has been just a typical teenager trying to get out of doing her chores and hang out with her best friends Polly and Nathaniel, but that disease made Mattie's life turning upside down. The fever killed thousands of people and affected many of people. One of those people who affected by the fever is Matilda and her mother Lucille. At this novel, we followed Matilda

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