This Is The End Of World Barbara Tuchman Analysis

Many of us have heard about the black plague. We have heard the horror and sadness that followed it as it spread. Barbara Tuchman wrote an essay called “This is the End of World”: The Black Death.” She tells us in more detail about what is officially known as the bubonic plague. The symptoms, the different types of the illness, where it spread, and how the people acted as a result of the plague are just a few things she wrote about. The bubonic plague reared its ugly head in October 1347. A ship came ashore in Sicily, carrying infected sailors. The men had large, black, puss filled abscesses on their groins and armpits. They had internal bleeding, which resulted in black spots on the skin. As more people caught the vile disease more