Little Women (Annotated)

Little Women (Annotated)

by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (Annotated)

Little Women (Annotated)

by Louisa May Alcott

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Differentiated book•It has a historical context with research of the timeThe story takes us to meet the March family and their experiences, which has war as its environment, in which the father of the March family is involved at the beginning of the book.Little women have 4 sisters with different personalities each: Margaret, called Meg by nickname, is the oldest of them, is a fine and elegant girl, who shows a mature attitude because she is the oldest of the sisters, is considered the most vain of the sisters and has a certain attachment with her sister Amy, the youngest of the sisters.The second sister is Josephine, nicknamed Jo, she is the second oldest in the family, she is the one with the strongest character of the 4, she is a young woman who has some rebellion against society that at that time was presented as a society macho which the woman was full of stereotypes and had to fulfill by obligation to fit into society.She presents herself with a strong attitude, something stubborn, open and different, she is also a very fresh and lively girl. He is the most complete character in the book, that's why he is considered in the films made adaptations as the protagonist. He also has great affection for Beth, the third sister of the family. Jo is considered the feminist symbol of the book for its constant refusal to comply with stereotypes.The third of the sisters is Elizabeth, nicknamed "Beth", she is a shy, calm and adorable young girl. She is the one who speaks the least in the family, she has a great appreciation for Jo, which is the one she loves most.The fourth sister of the family is Amanda, nicknamed Amy, a young girl proud of her beauty and her blue eyes, loves art, and is the only one who goes to school, because her older sisters Jo and Meg, already They graduated and Beth preferred to take classes at home. She is considered the most selfish sister of the three because she has a tendency to be a bit conceited due to the influence caused by her companies, this is reprimanded by Jo.Other characters that are important in this book are the mother of the March. She is a kind, calm and affectionate lady with her daughters, who is always present when one of them has a problem to comfort them.Another important character would be, the father of the March, who actually has almost no participation in the book, except when he arrives from the war and is welcomed by his family. And finally one of the characters that occupies relevance in the story, is Theodore Laurence nicknamed Laurie and her grandfather. The Laurence family is a neighbor of the March. Teodoro Laurence meets the March thanks to Josephine and becomes close friends with them, becoming Josephine's best friend. And this character is quite related to the family in the first and second books, as does the grandfather to Elizabeth who recognizes that he reminds him of his deceased granddaughter.In the course of history the experiences of each one of them are seen their crushes, their intellectual aspirations, their complications, their life. There is also the attempt of the sisters to try to fight against their negative aspects of their personality, such as with Meg: his vanity, with Jo, his anger, with Beth, his shyness and with Amy his selfishness. Louise May Alcott's way of writing is quite enjoyable, dialogues and descriptions abound. As the individual and free spirit of 4 girls who aspire to become great women to achieve their own dreams and goals demonstrates.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791221390919
Publisher: Avneet Kumar Singla
Publication date: 08/26/2022
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 610 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard and under it wrote novels for young adults.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888. Henry James called her "The novelist of children... the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom."
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