In The Wake Of The Plaque Summary

While I was reading “In the Wake of the Plaque”, I was not sure at first whast the purpose of the story was. After I read the whole book, I figured out that the Plaque is simply an epidemic that kills off a huge percentage of the population in England. It is said that the plaque was brought into the area through rats. It kind of shocked me when they said rats but then again the rats were infected which infected the population because of the all of the shipments that come on and off the ports. Now, how it got into humans there is much he say she say gossip. According to the team at the Laboratory of Microbial Structure and Function, it went from rats then to fleas and then to the humans. When I read that the fleas infected the humans, it kind of made sense because the fleas bit the rats that were infected and then bit the humans. With fleas being so small it is hard for them to be seen, which means it is hard for them to be killed. This transfer of the bubonic plaque just shows how fast things can travel in the matter of a couple of days or seconds. Being that this was a very dark part of history, until this day it is still trying to be understood, that a lot of artists such as painters have started to receive inspirations from the few people who did survive because it was very unlikely that they
would have.
The painter around the time period of the Black Death gained inspiration from the way the people where enslaved because of the plaque, the way the people joined together, the way the people checked their principles.
At this time, people became more unified and it can be seen in most of the paintings. The people soon began to realize this was not a battle they could fight on their own so they had to come together. They realized that whatever they had to do to overcome this epidemic, it had to be done. However, being that this happened early in history, there was not much technology so there was not much they can do about medicine or antibiotics to see them through
this. The Professor’s purpose for writing this book is to give us an insight on what really happened during this hard time. Just because it is over with as of now, there is still a chance it can happen again. The old saying is “If you do not know your history you are bound to repeat it.” I truly believe this is true because even today there are diseases that are coming from unknown sources that cannot be treated. In conclusion, the Black Death was an epidemic that shunned the area of England. However, these people who had different backgrounds came together to help their country get through this horrible time.