There is a deadly killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia, unfortunately you are just a merchant, who happens to be in the lowest part of society, therefore fleeing the city is not an option because you are unable to afford it. In this case, what would you do? The year was 1793, it was the end of a summer that would seem to last forever, but fall was right around the corner. It was a time of celebration for the people of Philadelphia after all they did win the American Revolution, but at the blink of an eye all that would come to an end. Unnoticeable, yes it was by the simple fact that Philadelphia was one of the busiest cities. Despite the terrible conditions brought along with the summer heat, ships would dock, goods would be exchanged, …show more content…
While the book Chains talks about a thirteen year old girl, Isabel, fighting to gain what is rightfully hers, freedom. Although these books seem very different they do convey similar messages. One of these themes that can be pointed out is acts of heroism where scarifies of oneself for the better good of the people were made in both books. In An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 many doctors sacrificed their lives to save others and find a cure, as did a few black Americans. In addition, the mayor stood along his fellow citizens and he decided something has to be done enable to save his town. As in Chains Isabel wanted to gain her freedom and she would do whatever it took. Isabel also sacrificed herself for the better good of her friend, Curzon, she risked the possibility of death if caught to save his life and make her way to freedom. In like manner both books although unlike share a common …show more content…
The hot summers came along with intense heat, heavy rainfall, mosquitoes everywhere, and open sewers. Although these odors did a great danger on the people’s health business would still go on. Since the Americans had just won the Revolutionary War everyone was celebrating and too busy to notice the fever walking among them. In the streets of Philadelphia quarantine was very low standard. “Dead dish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air.” Even though no one had cared about how sanitary the city was this was one of the reasons the disease spread. All the rotten foods and dead animals attracted mosquitoes which then spread the disease from one person to the next. Environment around the people did a major part in spreading the deadly
When the Fever Epidemic broke out in 1793, George Washington actually fled the city to avoid the fever. Bush Hill was the residence of Alexander Hamilton and a hospital in Fever 1793. There were not many medicines or real medical treatments that were proven to work and cure diseases as well as fevers
There was poor dysentery. There was freezing cold, wet winters and hot, dry summers. The dead bodies in the heat would have made trench fighting a misery. This is a quote about the
Your mother is stranded,your town has become a ghost town and pestilence is roaming . In 1793 the state of Philadelphia battled against a deadly enemy,deadly yellow fever . It took the lives of 5,000 citizens . Matilda’s story may have been fiction however for many people this was very real . In the novel “Fever 1793” by Laurie halse Anderson, Matilda finds herself struggling with the fever.
The primary source I chose for my analysis is “A Most Terrible Plague: Giovanni Boccaccio”. This document focuses on the account of how individuals acted when a plague broke out and hundreds of people were dying every day. This source is written by Giovanni Boccaccio as it is a story told by him and friends as they passed the time. Boccaccio discusses how “the plague had broken out some years before in the Levant, and after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc along the way, had now reached the west.” Readers of this source can assume there wasn’t much cures and medicinal technology weren’t used much during this time as even their physicians stayed away from the sick because once they got close they would also get sick.
They both are very good books and tell stories about suffering, trying to make the best out of everything and trying not to lose
In both dystopian novels they prove their points on how their society is different in relationship but the same in the concept of equality. Both are different by relationship but the same in equality and each society discovers the way of individualism. In our future everyone should believe individualism will be applied to our daily lives and the government will remove
The routes the ships took into North America were heavily infected with the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which was risking the safety of everyone onboard, especially the port workers and residents around the docks. Molly Crosby references the ships which came from Cuba stating that they were heavily infected with Aedes aegypti eggs. Passengers bitten by the mosquitos would shortly become ill and their immune systems would quickly become compromised and they would die. Since steamboats were the only means of transportation to and over seas, it was the predominant cause of yellow fever spreading worldwide because everyone lived so close together, making it very difficult to be
The American doctors couldn’t find the right cure so that was when the French doctors came to America and helped treat the fever. The fever got spread due to infected mosquitoes. Refugees came to America and brought the disease. The American doctors along with the French Doctors had similarities and differences
Though the content might be different, the theme of these two pieces of literature are the same. The theme being that change does not come without sacrifice.
They would also both do anything for their families. Although Isabelle and Madam Lockton were very different people treated very differently, they still had similarities and similar characteristics. In the book chains both their similarities and differences showed throughout Anderson's
To Kill A Mockingbird , and Mendez v. Westminster are two very different stories. They both have different meanings and different things that they talk about in their stories. Then they have some similarity. They both have a cause and effect, but most of all they both have some Coming Of Age.
Both the book and novel follow the trial of a man who killed the men who raped his daughter, and the young lawyer representing him. Between the two they are a few similarities, but overall there were more
Both the novels are Conrad’s darkest novel. In both the novel the stories begins with adventures. The characters develop with regard to self awareness. Both the characters goes through different sort of challenges, struggles, power and hard work which led them to succeed at the end both the protagonist belong to America.
Although, they have similarity, the two stories has major differences also. First, both author differs the way they introduce and develop their lead characters to the reader. Second, they also differ in perspective from which their stories are being told. Third, they differs on the choice of settings and how it impact to the stories.
The only similarity between the two is that a great wrong is done by each, yet how each character chooses to handle these wrongs is a testament to their character,