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**Major Conflict ** = **Yellow fever is striking Philadelphia. So many people are dying from the horrible disease, and Mattie is fighting to stay alive. ** =
 * Plot and Conflict of Fever 1793 **

**External Conflict ** **﻿****Robbers vs. Grandfather ** **Mattie vs. Mother﻿ ** **Silas vs.Mattie ** **Mattie vs. Yellow Fever **

**Internal Conflict ** **Mattie vs. Her Feelings ** **Mattie vs. Sanity **

**Conflicts in a Paragraph ** **The main conflict is Yellow Fever is striking Philadelphia. Many people are dying from the the terrible disease, and Mattie has to survive it. Externally, Mattie has to face her mother. They fought (verbally) in the beginning. Silas never listens to Mattie, so Mattie has a problem controlling her own cat. At one point in the book, Mattie gets Yellow Fever and has to fight to live. She also has to face robbers with her grandfather. Internally, Mattie has to face her feelings and her sanity. **

**Summary of Fever 1793 ** **In 1793 in Philadelphia, a fourteen year- old girl named Matilda "Mattie" Cook lives with her mother and grandfather. Her mother owns a coffee shop in which they live. Mattie hates having to do work or chores. She does as little work as she can for the family business. Her mother keeps trying to introduce Mattie prospective husbands, but Mattie is more interested in Nathaniel Benson, who her mother thinks is unsuitable. **

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything changes for Mattie and her family when a life threatening sickness comes to Philadelphia. Rapidly people are fleeing to get away from the sickness. The sickness turns out to be "Yellow Fever." Her family is determined to stay in Philadelphia until mother is taken ill from the fever. **

**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Demanded by her mother, Mattie and Grandfather leave the city before they can get sick. On the way, their ride out of the city abandons them because Grandfather doesn't pass the medical inspection. While Mattie takes care of her ill grandfather on the way home, she faints. Everything goes black for her. She wakes up in a hospital for yellow fever patients... **

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