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Alcotts”). The Alcotts were financially in trouble, but they still had to stay strong. Through all of the hardships, young Louisa May Alcott still needed education, which eventually led to finding her destined passion. Her education came from her father and some of her family's friends, such as: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau (“Louisa May Alcott”). Louisa May obtained wisdom through Fuller’s speeches, took walks with Thoreau, where she learned botany and her love for the outdoors, borrowed books from Emerson's library, wrote, made costumes, and performed plays of her creation in Hawthorne's barn (McDonough, “1868: Louisa Mary”). She began school before the age of eight in a room at Emerson's house (Matteson). She loved reading, writing, history, and geography, and believed nature was her best subject (McDonough). Since the age of eight, she kept a journal of her moods, passions, and tempers, which continued into her writing (“Life: The Alcotts”). From that point on, strong-willed Louisa May Alcott wanted to be famous through her passion of writing. Fully aware of the family's financial situation, Louisa May Alcott was a determined young lady that wanted to support her family as much as she could. At the age of fifteen, she was doing small jobs to receive extra cash, such as: working as a seamstress, household servant, governess, laundress, and a teacher (Gribben 338, McDonough, “Life: The Alcotts”). To help out with the…

sustain her. She had many different jobs that allowed her to get by. Soon after doing these miscellaneous jobs she realized this wasn’t what she wanted her life to consist of. She was determined to write and get her books on the shelves. After a while of her persistence and hard work her publications became regulars to local stores. Her books at first were focused on a certain area but she was able to widen her subject matter to appeal to more readers. Louisa 's many experiences in life helped…

a Temple School. Then, in the 1840s, they moved to Concord so they could see how it feels in the country. Likewise, they participated in 1843 in an experiment known as the Fruitlands which was a communal village. However, Louisa made some true family friends there named Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Furthermore, she played with her sisters when she could, but mostly she was writing about her life. Surprisingly her father wanted to let his daughters believe in not only God, but…

For centuries now and many more to come, women have impacted such strong change through accomplishments that have been recognized due to their gender. Over time, the number of women who have joined extreme groups to prove feminism occurs in social status’ to the workplace has increased. Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist and poet was the author to many pieces from fairytales to thrillers, but is remembered as the author who suddenly woke up in the limelight of fame. Growing up Louisa…

provide for a future family. Knowing that she is not yet ready to settle down and get married, Jo waits to meet the man she truly loves, ready to accept all the traits he has to offer her. Another example of Jo’s bold personality is when she begins to fall in love with Professor Bhaer while in New York. Jo knows that the professor is, “...very learned and good, but poor as a church mouse...”, yet she does not allow his financial status to prevent her from falling in love and wanting to be with…

Little Women research paper This research paper is about why the book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott was banned from many schools and libraries. In the next few paragraphs you will be reading and learning about the many reasons I found during my research about why this book was banned. If you have read the book, as I have, you will find many of these reasons idiotic. To counting learning more about Little Women, please read on. According to…

Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick’s goal in writing Scrappy Little Nobody, is to show that she’s not like every other celebrity, she’s different and fun and independent, and because of this, she is also just like everybody else. We’re all different, which is the one thing that makes us the same, and this is the kind of empowering message that she wanted to share with her audience. She wanted to show that she started out, as just a small, wacky, defiant teenage girl, and now she is still just…

For the past century and a half, much of the world has incorrectly come to the conclusion that Louisa May Alcott intended her novel, Little Women, to serve as a conservative icon that endorses the proper life for women to aspire to, the life of a subservient wife and mother. However, Alcott did not intended her novel to be a propagandist piece supporting the cult of domesticity, the philosophy that women in the 1800s should stay at home and not work outside of the domestic sphere. In contrast,…

Louisa May Alcott has many short stories from the war setting. Her background information will allow readers to understand why she has repeatedly wrote her short stories about the war, and or around the war. One story of hers a man named John dies on her watch, she had multiple real life deaths within her family and they had impacted her deeply. The deaths in her family lead to how she felt when the man in her short story impacted her so much. Her experience provides and shows readers the pain…

In the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott the main character; Josephine March, is faced with the expectations of becoming a respectful young women. Surrounded by a household full of girls, Jo has no choice but to conform to society 's ideals and grow up to be like her sisters. Throughout the novel Jo refuses to grow up, faces society 's expectations, and becomes a Little Woman. Josephine March is a fifteen year old girl who goes by the nickname ‘Jo’, she has a bold personality and tends…