In Philadelphia there is lots of conflict caused by the fever, the biggest is (of course) the fever. This disease forces people to …show more content…
The "medicine" failed due to the fact that medicine was not the most understood, or practiced thing at the time. So survival is hard in exact instances like this, due to little understanding of, and lack of ways to combat the sickness.
Selfishness was also one of the biggest problems, the biggest example is people shutting themselves in for survival reasons. They also hoarded food needed for the oncoming pestilence, a prominent example is mr. Peale, who used his live animal collection as food for the family to, you know, not die. This was a good way to live in a sickness like this.
Survival is important only sometimes but if it is ever needed, you will go anywhere, do anything, to keep yourself kicking. So in conclusion Fever is about survival, heck the book’s own summary says, quote, “...and Mattie must quickly learn to survive in a city turned frantic with disease” and quote. See even the summary has emphasis on survival, but that's just an argument, a book argument! thanks for