Suffering In Fever 1793

As we find out in Fever, 1793, people can suffer in so many ways: physically, yes, but also emotionally. The pain of yellow fever completely transforms Matilda's body. She becomes pale and gaunt, thin and sallow. There's another kind of scar, however, that's not so easy to see. Matilda experiences the loss of someone she loves – her grandfather – and it fills her with pain, grief, anger, fear, and just about every other nasty thing you can think of. The trauma of loss is something that will stay Matilda her for a very long time.

But while pain and suffering are supremely terrible, we also learn that there are strategies for coping with the harder parts of life. Matilda, for example, refuses to remain a victim of the fever. She's a survivor