Louisa May Alcott Little Women

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In an excerpt of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the March sisters give up their Christmas breakfast to help an impoverished immigrant family. The March family's servant, Hannah, describes how the girls' mother helps others, "Some poor creeter came a-beggin', and your ma went straight off to see what was needed. There never was such a woman for givin' away vittles and drink, clothes and firin'" (Alcott para 17). The sisters want to follow their mother's example and make her proud. The girls were having a wonderful time planning on how to give their mother her Christmas presents, when "Marmee" March, informed her daughters, "Not far away from here lies a poor woman with a little newborn baby. Six children are huddled into one bed to keep

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