Suffering In Fever 1793

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Suffering plays a huge role in the world today. People suffer everyday whether it be a loss of a family member or internal struggle. This is especially shown in the book Fever 1793, by Laurie halse Anderson the author gives a great image of what people go through everyday and how suffering affects our everyday actions. In the story a young girl named Mattie, faces many challenges having to experience the devastation of the fever in Philadelphia 1793. She sees the huge effects it is causing on people on a personal level and a large scale. She gets through the awful time, and all the catastrophic events, and suffering she has endured makes her a better and more mature person.

In the beginning of the book the first casualty of the fever was a serving girl named Polly Mattie suffers the pain of the loss though from a distance she imagines what it is like to be in Polly's family’s shoes as well as what it is like to be in her brothers Matthews.”The house was silent for a moment , Except for the sound of Matthew down the block still hammering away at his forge. Had anyone even told him polly was gone? (4).This illustrates that Mattie is thinking about others and is worried for the future for herself and others. She suffers another issue with her mother in the beginning wanting to go to polly's funeral. “What about
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