The answers are George Washington’s feelings about the event and details of what it was like to experience the event
Nonfiction is a style of writing in which every line is factual and researched. Textbooks are nonfiction, as they write about real events and people and information that has been gathered and fact-checked over periods of time.
Historical fiction, which this passage could be classified as, is a style of writing where the setting takes place during a time in history and the plot relates to past events, however the characters are not real, historical figures.
An American Plague by Jim Murphy is a nonfiction novel. The two accounts in the passage provided in the question allows a deeper insight into the reality of the events that took place. In the passage:
- George Washington's impatience and anxiety about the fever is discusses, letting you know how he felt at the time
- His emotions give some extra details about how it felt experiencing the event
The passage does not:
- give readers characters they can connect with since they are real historic figures, not characters
- give Mr. Carris’s thoughts on Secretary of War Henry Knox, as this passage is about Washington's stress at the time
- tell a biography of George Washington, but instead an account about the spread of yellow fever