“Fatal Fever- Tracking Down Typhoid Marry” written by Gail Jarrow. This book is about a germ detective, George Soper, tracking down the healthy bacteria career, Marry Mallon. In the beginning, when people found out about Marry’s career, polices and doctors were crazy about catching her in the hospital, which made her more scared, so she decided to escape and hide away. The problem is, there is bacteria wherever she goes and touched, all the families that used her as a cook were infected. After years of finding and tracking down, George Soper finally heard the news about Marry. In this book, the author wrote many facts about Typhoid fever,  warned readers to be knowledgeable, and reminded readers to wash their hands and keep clean.

Beneath is my notebook and some central ideas I found in the book:

The first central idea I found was: People should gain more knowledge. There are many examples through the book of how because people lack scientific knowledge, they fall into hard situations. If everyone knows what to do, I believe that everything will be solved way more easily.

After reading more pages,  I found another idea the author mentioned many times and summarized in the end, people should keep a clean environment. 

During lesson 7, we learned how to make connections between ideas that at first did not seem to be connected but actually are.  One I found is how the author touched lightly on many people were isolated because of their gender. In other words, sexism. It’s hard to find because at first, I thought it’s just paragraphs that introduce Dr. Jo, but after you read again, you’ll realize it’s secretly describing and introducing the society at that time.

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