In the beginning of the story Matilda Cook was a teenage girl who didn't really like to wake up in the morning but had to do chores for her families coffee house and always tried to sneak out to get out of the work.(pgs.1-11) Matilda also liked a boy named Nathaniel Benson but never expressed her feelings because her mother did not approve. In the end the coffee house gers broken intoand grandpa defends his home and matilda.The robbers hurt granda bad and he dies.Matilda is on her own now and wound up finding a lil girl named nelly.Nelly mom died of yellow fever.matilda takes her in and she end up finding eliza.At this point with helping take care of nelly and helping eliza take care of the sick she finnaly matures.

In the middle of the story yellow fever is spreading rapidly and many people are fleeing philadelphia.Matida mother gets sick with yellow fever,which causes her and her grandfather yo flee.while leaving they get double crossed by the farmer they were riding with to the luington because they thought grandfather had yellow fever.Therefore, they had to fin for themselves.Matilda had to be the care taker because grandfather had came down with sumer gripe.Matilda catches yellow fever but survives so they return to the coffehouse to find that her mother was missing.(chapters 10-13) For example, on pages 1 through 2 matilda mother,lucille, tells her to get up but matilda doesnt bother to get up when she is told.Matilda so far comes off as a lethargic Because she rather play then work. 1793',Matilda Cook seems like a normal teenager

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