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cooK COFFEEHOUSE

COOK COFFEEHOUSE

• A coffeehouse owned by Mattie's mother; Lucille Cook
• Most events take place here
• Mattie and her mother live above the coffeehouse
• Small popular family business in Philadelphia

MATTIE'S HOME

MATTIE'S HOME

• Small one bedroom apartment above the coffeehouse
• Mattie and her mother share a room
• Once Mattie's mother becomes sick, they have to move the tub into the bedroom

MARKET

MARKET

• A place to get food
• Stretched three blocks
• "...Chickens clucked, geese honked, customers argued, and children ran everywhere..."
• Where Mattie saw Nathaniel Benson

BUSH HILL

BUSH HILL

• A hospital for fever victims to receive the care they need
• "...according to the gossips, Bush Hill was one step away from hell, filled with dead bodies and criminals who preyed on the weak."
• Bush Hill was now a respectable hospital that Mattie was taken to after becoming sick with Yellow Fever

MATILDA COOK

MATILDA COOK(MATTIE)

• Daughter of Lucille Cook
• 14 year old girl during 1793
• Main character in Fever 1793
• Very brave and self reliant young girl

LUCILLE COOK

LUCILLE COOK

• Mattie's mother
• Owned of the Cook Coffeehouse
• A widow
• Strong, brave, courageous woman
• Became sick with yellow fever

ELIZA

ELIZA

• Coffeehouse cook
• Family friend
• Kind loving woman
• Helped out when Lucille became sick
• Mattie looks up to Eliza

GRANDFATHER (CAPTAIN WILLIAM FARNSWORTH COOK)

GRANDFATHER

• Captain William Farnsworth Cook, of the Pennsylvanian Fifth Regiment
• Cared for Mattie while her mother was sick but soon became sick himself
• Took care of Mattie when she became sick
• Strong brave soldier
• Lucille's father in law
• Died very unexpectedly in the coffeehouse with Mattie

GEORGE WASHINGTON

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• Commander of the Continental Army
• 1st president of the United States
• Lived in Philadelphia during 1793 but left due to the Yellow Fever outbreak

suffering

suffering

• The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship
• Mattie experiences suffering when her mother becomes sick and she has to move away. She also experiences suffering when her grandfather dies an unexpected death in her arms.

bravery

bravery

• Mattie showed bravery when...
• she had to care for her sick mother alone
• she had to move away
• her grandfather became sick and it was up to her to find food and care for herself and her sick grandfather
• thieves broke into her home in the middle of the night
• her grandfather died

medical science

medical science

• Yellow Fever is an acute viral disease caused by mosquitos' in 1793
• There was an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
• Many doctors and medical researchers/scientist tried to uncover this disease and find a cure for it
• Symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains, headaches, and yellowing of the skin or eyes.

figurative language

Simile

• Definition: A comparision using like or as.
• Example from Fever 1793: " Bodies are pilling up like fire wood"

metaphor

• Definition: The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as
• Example from Fever 1793: "Life was a battle, and mother a tired and bitter captain."

hyperbole

• Definition : An extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
• Example from Fever 1793: "A roast beef bigger than a horse."

onomatopoeia

• Definition: The creation of words that imitate natural sounds.

imagery

• Definition: The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
• Example from Fever 1793: "The tin bathing tub."

allusion

• Definition: A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened.

foreshadowing

• Definition: To show or indicate before hand

alliteration

• Definition: The occurance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

personification

• Definition: Giving human abilities to non human things.
• Example from Fever 1793: "We walked past blocks of empty houses along streets that felt abandoned."

symbol

• Definition: Signifies or stands for something else. Represents an idea.