Dominique LaGambina
Mrs. Bewick
Ms. Conner
English 4
5 May 22
Final Essay Day 2
Amari from Copper Sun by Sharon m. Draper and Mattie from Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson are similar in many ways. They both show characteristics of strength, independence, and pride. Amari was a young girl who was taken from her normal everyday life and forced into slavery. She watched as the people around her died and never looked back. Mattie is also a young girl who was taken out of her normal routine and demanded to uproot her life to safety and leave as the ones around her were dying one by one. Both amari and mattie show these similarities throughout the whole text and both hold a strong female role in the stories.
Amari…show more content… A normal coffeehouse and a normal job. Over night matties world went from teenage complications to life or death. Amari took her job seriously at the coffeehouse but when her friend polly didnt show up for work one night she started to worry. To then hear the news that polly caught the fever and she died over night in the comfort of her bed. Mattie insisted to attend the funeral and to see her friend one more time. But being raised protected her whole life her mother refused to let her go because she believed it would give her nightmares. Mattie respected her mothers wishes after a minute of back and forth with her mother. After polly passed word around the coffeehouse was that the refugees brought the fever back with them and are infecting everyone. People in Matties town started to die left and right which is when mother caught it. She watched as her mother got sick from the fever. Her mother did not want mattie to see her in this way so she then demanded mattie and grandfather go to the country in the morning and try to find somewhere safe until the frost comes which could get rid of the mosquitos which where the ones carrying the fever. Mattie went to the country the next morning with grandfather. Grandfather and mattie went through many situations that would test there ability to survive. When they began their journey to the country they were stopped by a group of men the doctors wanted to examine everyone to make sure they were not infected with the fever before they entered the country. The man and his daughter who had been traveling with them stole there carrige and continued his journey and left them to get there on feet. They were told to just turn around and go back to the city. When
