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Fever 1793 Adversities
When faced with adversities, the natural way of a human to respond to them are to fix them or just try to move on, but in some novels characters have to go through the worst of them, so let's talk about how they felt and what they went through. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Fever 1793 was one of the best books I have ever read because of the plot and the moments that really got to me. Mattie was one of the main characters and she went through a lot of adversities. Worst of all of the adversities she went through was her grandfather's death, well in my opinion. When she heard a noise coming from downstairs so she went to check it out and saw two burglars robbing their coffee house so she

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