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Historical Factors in Year of Wonders
The novel of the Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks, can be looked at as a comparison of the contemporary events that society is affected by today. The thought of AIDS, Ebola, or the threat of biological warfare frightens society today. By reading this novel about past catastrophic events it can become a psychological way to deal with the dangers we now face in the present. "The term plague was [mainly] recognized with bubonic plague which is a highly contagious and feverish disease caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, often known as Black Death" (List of Bubonic Plague Outbreaks, 2006). The presence of rodents among the dead was an indicator of the outbreak of the plague, where scholars believe that rodents were the main transporters of the disease. "The first records of the bubonic plague originated in Libya, Egypt, and Syria" (The History of Bubonic Plague, 2003). The first pandemic of the plague occurred in Egypt by 542, where trade......

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