Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

Fever Crumb

Characters

In the beginning of the story the main character, Fever Crumb, is rational and reasonable. “Then there was her hair, or rather, lack of hair. The order was keen to hurry humankind into the future, and they believed that hair was unnecessary. Fever shaved her head every other morning.” (8). This quote shows how Fever is rational because she removes things from her life that have more to do with comfort and beauty, which she believes to be irrational, than have to do with usefulness. Fever has been sheltered from irrational things for most of her life so when she is thrust into the city of normal people she doesn't understand why they have or do irrational things. In the end of the book she doesn’t have the same disapproval of irrational things as she does in the beginning. “Fever touched her fuzzy scalp, and tried out a smile. “I’m planning to grow it out.”(324) This shows that Fever doesn’t mind irrational things anymore. Her shaved head was a symbol that she did not fall victim to comfort and beauty but now she is growing her hair back. Initially when Fever interacts with other people she is usually not shy and she will tell them if they are doing something irrational unless she can sense that it has a lot of meaning to them but by the end she no longer cares.

Ideas

The main character, Fever Crumb, is being chased by two people who want to kill her because of her breed. One of those chasing Fever is Bagman Creech who was shot by Fever’s friend. Charley is other other. He shoots Fever and thinks he killed her (but he did not). He realizes that she was a person just like him and feels terrible. His feelings show in this quote “..... not enough to make it worth doing the thing that he’d j...

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...hem dared suggest it for fear the other would think them irrational”(17) shows this point of view. It shows two different peoples’ motives which means the narrator knows more than one person's thoughts and feelings. “In a voice too small for her or anyone else to hear”(18) shows that the narrator is using she which is used for third person.

Order

The story is mostly told in chronological order except there some are flash backs. When they tell about some events in the past it isn’t a person talking, it is put into third person omniscient instead. “When Gideon Crumb first came to London the city was still ruled by the Scriven”(150) This quote is when a character is telling what happened to him in the past but instead of him talking, When I first came to London…, it is being told in non-Dialogue so it is like you are traveling back to the past in the story.