Fever, 1793 Review Sheet

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Climax [turning point]: Grandfather dies; Mattie is alone.Falling action: Mattie finds Nell and Eliza. Mattie helps Eliza. Twins/Nell get ill with fever.Mattie will share business with ElizaResolution: Mother returns and roles reversed. Frost kills fever.Find a metaphor on page 151.companion.Death was a heavy companion. You are comparing death to aFind a simile on page 55. I felt like a noodle over boiled in the stewpot. Mattie is comparingherself to a noodle, notice the word like in between the comparison making it a simile.Find an onomatopoeia example on page 54. We suffered the constant buzz of mosquitoes.Find an example of personification on page 207. I followed the jumping light into the garden.Written responseThroughout the book, Matilda and her mother never say they love each other, yet weknow they do. What evidence is there to the story that the two feel deeply for eachother?Mother doesn’t want Mattie to stay with her when she gets the fever. For her own good, shewants to send her to Ludington farm. Mother’s actions when she didn’t know where Mattie was.She left in the middle of night, very ill, to search for her on horseback. When they werereunited, there was hugging, crying. Mattie can’t imagine life without her.
Authors sometimes subject their characters to difficult tasks. What are two tasksMatilda accomplishes?Carrying for grandfather, getting yellow fever, robbers in coffeehouse, hunger, running thecoffeehouse, taking care of Nell, being alone, running a businessBased on what you know of Matilida’s character and experiences throughout the story,what, to Matilida would make a perfect day?Some possibilities are…being outside, always wanted to go to Paris, being with Nathaniel,Grandfather, Mother and Eliza. Going to market; window shopping, fishing with Nathaniel,watching hot air balloon with Nathaniel….How would Matilda’s life changed if Mrs. Cook had stayed healthy and remained with herdaughter at all times during the story?Possible Grandfather would be alive, she might not have Nell, Shem might not have helped Elizawith Free African Society, Not be partner with Eliza with expanded menu, she might not haverelationship with Nathaniel….Explain the dismal scenes that Mattie encounters while helping Eliza with her yellow feverpatients. As a student similar in age to Mattie, is that situation something that you feelyou could have handled. Provide reasons as to why or why not?Houses torn apart, patients being bled, helping patients to necessary, cleaning and washingsheets and rooms, stench would be unbearable of death, black vomit and vinegar; stench ofdying bodies, feeding patients, crying families…What is the main cause of yellow fever? Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoDoes it exist today? yesIs yes, where? Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South America
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