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             Fatal Fever, by Gail Jarrow, explains how water contamination and one single person could lead to massive outbreaks happening all over America. The story happened in the late 1800s (1870), when the typhoid fever first infected people in the United States. One of the biggest problems at the time was water contamination. People rarely drink boiled water, they would take water straight from a lake that was appointed by the government and drink from it. Mary Mallon is an American woman in her 40s, I think. She works for rich people as a cook and as a part-servant. She doesn’t know or believe that she has typhoid fever, however, Mary has it. She shows no signs of any sort of symptoms or infection in her body and seems to be a healthy person. Every time somebody that she works for get sick, she will almost instantly quit her job and move on to the next house. She believes that the people that she worked for got typhoid in some other way, and they were going to infect her, therefore she forfeited her job. Read on if you would like to explore Mary’s fate in this world of death and disorder…

 

Below is my first page, made on lesson 3. It is a sequence of events that happened to Mary Mallon throughout the book. I figured out a theme at the end of the page, it’s kind of like a lesson that we should all learn from Mary’s actions and consequences. Because I kinda ran out of space, I did not manage to fit in one of the things that happened. But keep in mind that Mary got caught and put in a hospital on a island for the rest of her life. See my ideas below:

 

For this next page here, made on lesson 4, I decided to consider the water contamination that was mentioned before Mary in the Book. I looked at all of the things that got affected by the water contamination. For this page, I found out that the problem here (central idea) is that in a lot of places over america at the time, people were not drinking boiled water. Instead, they were drinking from a appointed river or lake that was near their town/city. If that one lake got contaminated, it basically meant that every single person that drank from that lake will get Typhoid fever.

 

This page was made on lesson 7, it shows how Mary Mallon could be connected to the contamination of the water that was drank in the cities. It also shows how mary infects her victims. It was sort of a disgusting thing to write about, I gotta say. By the way, Did you know or believe that people in the early 1900s didn’t wash their hands before cooking food or eating? That was a major problem that had to be fixed in America at the time.

 

This last page here, made on lesson 11, just emphasizes the severeness of the Typhoid fever. It also shows why Mary really needs to be contained and not let out of the island and the hospital. Look for yourself how bad the infection could get:

 

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