Quarter 4: Book Portfolio

(<------Book cover Fever 1793)Fever 1793, By: Laurie Halse Anderson 2001. It's about the yellow fever spreading through Philadelphia, people all of a sudden just start dieing in no time. Mattie a little girl goes through allot of troubles with losing friend and family to this horrible sickness, the question would be is she safe from this? The theme of this book would be never take anything for granted, because you never know what is coming. People fight allot and hold grudges towards people, but you never know if you will ever see them again, just cherish every moment of life.

Allot of people in this world need to just look around at what they truly have, you don't know how rich you are. I'm not even talking about money I'm talking also about family, people that care about you. Never abuse that at all, love is one of the most important things in this life. A part of the book that could described this is when Mattie was having problems with one of her best friends and then all of a sudden she got sick and died, Mattie never forgave herself after that. Another thing is when Mattie had been fight non-stop with her mother, and only a couple of days after her mother got very sick, and she then later passed. All these things that happened was horrible for Mattie. If she could have taken back, (all the fighting) she would've but it was to late. One more example would be when she had argued with her grandfather about how to treat her mom when she was sick, well guess what later her grandfather started to get sick. This theme in history is that this sickness actually happened in the later 17oo's, and people probably actually did feel this way when family got sick.

(<------ Guy with yellow fever, pain in his arm)

People actually had to go through this back then, the yellow fever was horrible i will share some background information on it. One reason that people almost always died from the yellow fever is because there was no cure for it, there was nothing you could do but rest. Some of the symptoms that you could get were head aches, chills, BAD pains in the arms, legs, and back. After about three days of your fever being done it would come back. You would then have had a high fever where your red blood cells are destroyed and then your skin and eyes turn yellow. You then start to throw up black and your nose bleeds non-stop. The significance of theme in history is that this is a true story, these things actually happened in history.

(<------Laurie Halse-------> Author of Fever 1793)Do not take anything for granted, you don't know what you've got until it's gone. The significance of the theme in the book is that it helps described what the characters are really like and what they really truly care about. The significance of the theme in history is that people actually had to go through this, this sickness was a HUGE deal and ended up killing many people. The book presented the theme very well and it was clearly understood, the author did a very good job and the theme. The importance of understanding the theme is that this happens all the time still in our everyday lives and this book could help with a loss, if it be a person or an animal it could still be useful. I would recommend this book to any age or anyone, it was a very well written novel.