The Cook family garden is at the back of the coffeehouse and is a source of food for both the Cook family and their business. Why, though, do you think the balloon is yellow? What else in the novel is yellow? The Garden Matilda constantly references Blanchard's experiments as a source of wonder, excitement, and hope (1.28, 25.53, epilogue.15). Pierre Blanchard was an actual French inventor who flew his hot air balloon across the English Channel and over the skies of Philadelphia, near Walnut Street Prison. What else does Paris, or even France come, to symbolize in the novel? (Hint: think of the French doctors at Bush Hill.) Blanchard's Hot Air Balloon She may be a dreamer, but this girl is also always an entrepreneur.
But while Paris may be the city of love and lights, our business-minded young heroine also wishes to visit in order to collect French "fripperies" – trinkets to sell to customers in her own brand new expanded store (6.33). Paris is a city of wonder and excitement, "far away and wonderful," and Matilda longs to go there (5.51). Let's consider: where in the novel do we actually see mosquitoes? (Hint: check the very first line of the novel.) Why might insects – especially ones that suck blood – be important for this story? Paris In fact, everyone's blaming everything but the bugs for the yellow fever epidemic. They're tiny and pesky and no one seems to know just how dangerous they actually are. At last, the culprit: it's those darn blood-sucking bugs that keep spreading the yellow fever.
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