Little Women Chapter Summaries

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In the book Little Women there are many key points.Here are the key points from chapters 1-8.First, Chapter one states that the 5 daughters are bying gifts for there ma instead of there selfs to have good cristmas spireate when there fathers in the the cilver war.The gist of chapter 2 is when they bring there food to the poor and put on a show.After that Jo and Meg go to a party and Jo bumps into Laurie and they become friends.Chapter 4-5 states that Jo meets and takes care of Laurie and they found out they had a lot in common.I read that on chapter 6 Meg buys limes and she gets in trouble.Her punishment was that she had to throw the limes out the window and get hit in the hand.The author wrote that Jo wouldent take Amy to the theater, so when

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