Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Despite alternative arguments towards perseverance, the most prominent theme is that nothing lasts forever. In the novel, though perseverance is very prevalent in Mattie, the main character, when you turn to the other characters and the world, and even some less noticeable areas of Mattie’s character, the book consistently turns back to this theme, for example, when Philadelphia looses the war on Yellow Fever, or when thousands of Philadelphians died, or even simply how Philadelphia was changed. While more subtle, when analyzed, the theme of Fever 1793 is consistent and clear. To begin, Philadelphia lost the figurative war on Yellow Fever. Though Philadelphia,
