Typhoid fever
Nope
When the theives broke in.
No, the mother doesn't die... but the grandfather does.
he died by falling off a ladder.
Yes, Mattie's mother dies from yellow fever in the book "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Well, Fever was actually real and people really did die from this event. AND NO CHEATING ON YOUR SUMMER READING PROJECT!
In "Fever 1793," the constant references to the fever as a yellow killer that sweeps through the city can be seen as a metaphor for the devastation and chaos that epidemics bring. The fever itself represents the unseen danger lurking in the midst of everyday life, waiting to strike at any moment.
Curtis Bok died in 1962.
Uhm Bok-dong died in 1951.
Yi Bok-nam died in 1597.
Bok de Korver died in 1957.