Context Director- Madicyn
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush born on January 4, 1746 and was a Founding Father of the United States. He was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College.
Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, became highly regarded for his work during the 1793 Yellow Fever outbreak. Rush thought that the outbreak had originated in a pile of rotting coffee beans left on the docks. He developed an approach to treatment, copiously bleeding his patients and injecting mercury in the patient’s veins. This therapeutic became well known as “heroic medicine.” It wasn’t always favorable by many people though.
Bush Hill
The mayor and a committee organized a hospital at Bush Hill. Bush hill housed, fed and cared for the sick. The city members (Rush) requested the assistance of the Free African Society, because they thought that native Africans would have the same immunity to the disease malaria, but they were wrong. Many blacks became ill and died. But before that Black nurses aided the sick and the group's leaders hired additional men to take away corpses, which most people would not touch. Many blacks and whites in the city died, about 240 altogether. Some neighboring towns refused to let refugees in from Philadelphia, for fear they were carrying the fever over.
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Director of Rhetoric- Hewson
Choose the 5 best literary devices from the entire novel. Revise the descriptions, include page numbers and place in a Doc. At the beginning of the page, add a paragraph explaining why you chose these devices as the best examples and possibly connect them to one another. What do these devices show us about the writer's voice/style?
I chose these devices because they really do represent some of the fundamentals of this book, and how the author writes it. Obviously since this is a historical fiction novel,there would be allusions, so I included that. As well, some of the characters in this book were flat, could’ve been more well developed, or were archetypes, like Nell. so I included that device. But onto the syle. This author uses many similes to convey to us the full meaning of an action or idea. As well, the author uses simple, and complex metaphors to express ideas similarly to similes. This style of metaphors and similes very much works, for it puts sounds sights, images, and idea into your brain with full understanding of their meaning rather than just a normal description.
Device One: Metaphor- A great metaphor used throughout the novel is that of the coffeehouse. The coffeehouse represents Philadelphia, as it survives the epidemic. In the beginning of the book the coffeehouse is doing well, but needs to grow, or do something with its earnings to help the business. In the middle of the book, the coffeehouse sits, seemingly abandoned, as time goes on, just like the city, with its ghost town presence in the height of the pestilence. The shop, just like the city is robbed. Robbed of its people, robbed of its workers, robbed of its money. Yet, in the end, the coffeehouse opens up again, better than ever before, strengthened in some ways by the fever itself.
Device Two: Archetype- Nell, the small child that Mattie finds in the street is an example of the common archetype of the almost-daughter or almost-little sister. This often younger girl is usually used for the main character to care about, take care of, or otherwise nurture. This ends up serving as a way for the author to show development, emotion and attachment, or to incite emotion from the readers and characters, usually after their death. Examples are Rue in the Hunger Games, Baby in In The After, and of course, Nell.
Device Three: Simile- There are many uses of similes throughout the book, which as mentioned previously, is one of the author’s key devices for describing and helping the readers understand certain ideas, or objects in the world. A couple of the best examples of this are on page 94 and page 142, respectively. ““the pears… felt like tiny anvils” This helps us understand how bad and weighed down Mattie is feeling when she’s clearly being sucked down by the fever. “Two bony hands curled around my shoulders like the claws of a panther.” This helps convey the fear Mattie is feeling, since she thinks this, and the creepiness of this robber grabbing her.
Device Four: Allusion- Quite a few times, as this is a historical fiction book, the author binds together real events into the text, and makes many references to events and controversies that actually went on during the prevalence of Yellow Fever. One of these is when one of the characters makes reference to the takeover and remaking of the hospital on page 102. “Mr. Stephen Girard, Lord bless his name, has taken over and turned this place into a right hospital.”
Art Director- Maggie
This picture to me represents Mattie's life, during the fever. The maze itselfs represent her journey. Like when you get to a dead end you lose something and then you have to turn around again and start over. The big stairwell, that even means something (where the picture is being taken) that we can overcome obstacles . At the end of the book Mattie's life is starting to piece back together one piece at a time. But in the end she looks back at what she has overcome and what she lost during the process of everything becoming normal again. In the end the maze represents the ups and downs that she has to overcome. For example like losing her grandfather was a down, but when her mother comes back that is a up.
# 2
The fish represents the activeness and how much strength she and then the fever just came over her so quickly. She was trying to take care of her grandfather and then he carried her to Bush Hill.
# 1
The cooks coffee house
We start out the book at the cooks coffee house it is a bustling store for cakes tea and of course coffee.
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