Reaction Paper on Geraldine Brookss The Year of Wonders
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In that rapidly changing world of 1665, where focus was shifting from God to man, Eyam, an English remote village of lead miners, cobblers, weavers and shepherds, became the victim of the bubonic plague, and the radical town minister Michael Mompellion compelled the villagers that they should quarantine themselves in the ‘wide green prison' and meet their end or survival.... he village, in an act of extraordinary altruism and vision to save others at the cost of subjecting themselves to near-sure suffering and death after the plague reached through a journeyman tailor coming from London, who describes London as “The city is like a corpulent man trying to fit himself into the jerkin he wore as a boy”....