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    Would you rather name or your little girl Alice or Alyss? 9 times out 10 a family will name their little girl Alice spelled like A.L.I.C.E instead of A.L.Y.S.S because it more normal. The author uses rites of passage to reveal how Alyss changes as a character in throughout the whole story. In the book The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor made a character named Alyss that goes on a rather exciting journey... In the beginning of the novel,Alyss is characterized as bored…

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    Alcott, L. M. (1997). A long fatal love chase. New York: Dell Pub. Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women and her other juvenile fiction, but she also wrote gothic thrillers. A Long Fatal Love Chase is one of these and has been referred to as a "bodice-ripper" by reviewers. Originally written for serialization in 1866, after her travels in Europe and about two years before Little Women was published, her manuscript was rejected as "too long and too sensational". Several years later,…

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    Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

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    Little Women

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    With every adventure one faces, they are shaped into an individual by the people they meet along the way. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids, Foster uses a first-person point of view to present techniques to truly analyze literature. More specifically, he elaborates on the idea that all characters go on quests to discover themselves. This theme is represented in Little Women, where Louisa May Alcott tells the story of four sisters, Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth, as they go through the…

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    Writing one genre of literature for a certain audience is a challenge in and of itself, but those writers that push their boundaries, expand their thoughts, and adapt their writing styles are the notable authors that we all know today. In 1832, the renowned author, Louisa May Alcott, was born into a family of girls, although she was surrounded by females she grew into a strong individual who described herself as a tomboy. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race, and no girl if…

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    The first theme is Little Women is the necessity of work for balance and functioning. According to the text, “As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hung so heavily that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat. Jo read till her eyes gave out and she was sick of books, got so fidgety that even good natured Laurie had a quarrel with her, and so reduced in spirits that she desperately wished she had gone with…

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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…

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    The Revelation of Louisa May Who would she have been if she had given in to fear and allowed a man’s life to be sacrificed? Louisa Alcott, the main character in The Revelation of Louisa May, begins her life changing adventure as an astute young woman, eager to experience the glory of independence. She soon faces the truth about life, love, and her own self identity on this road, however. The Revelation of Louisa May, by Michaela MacColl, is a coming of age novel. In the book, the…

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    Jo's Hardships

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    In the book, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, we see the family overcome misfortune multiple times throughout the story. Jo deals with her father being in the war by writing a manuscript, unfortunately later in the book, her sister burns the manuscript. The misfortune helps Jo as a person because it taught her that she needed to control her temper. The success is important to the book because it shows how humans are guilty of having bad tempers. Jo’s character overcomes her hardship of poverty…

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    Imagine being considered less than the people you love and care about. In Louisa May Alcott’s novel, The Inheritance, this is the case for Edith Adelon. Although she is loved by the ones she loves, she desires to be equal. Edith longs for acceptance and equality throughout the whole novel. This conflict reflects upon the structure, setting, plots, characterization of Edith and many other characters, social and economic factors, symbolism and irony. The Inheritance contains 15 chapters, numbered…

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