Black Plague Research Paper

Imagine you are a young child, living in the 14th century. Both of your parents have died, as they had tried to abandon you because of the illness you had. They didn’t leave fast enough though, so now they are in the street, rotting away as wild dogs eat their soft, green flesh and large, black flies buzz around them. The pain has overcome you, and now you are just an animal as the egg-like reddish black lumps cover your thighs and armpits. Dark, thick blood covers your face and bed, as workers haul your body out of the house. They drag you along, locking you into an airless building with other slightly rotting, alive bodies that scream and moan. The stench is strong, the smell of sweaty bodies and blood. You claw at the walls of the building, feeling as if the walls are closing in

Your fingernails break, and as you continue clawing, your fingers become bloody and ragged with skin. You die, with other dying bodies. This plague was called the Black Plague, and killed around 20 to 25 million people in the area of Europe, and it is thought that it could’ve started in China. (McCabe, pg 43) The Black Plague began around in the late 14th century, and often times it came back up before disappearing again, from the death of the rats that the fleas fed on. There are many interesting facts about the plague, such as: where it started, the symptoms and how doctors treated it, some of the effects the plague had on Europe, and more.
The Black Plague was an epidemic in history that was so deadly, that there was a quote by an Italian writer, Giovanni Boccaccio said, “It was such a frightful thing, that when it got into a house....no one remained. Frightened people