The Little Grey Men

My body rubbed against the furry carpet on my bedroom floor. The smooth layer of fur soothed my body and put me back to sleep. I dreamt about the time Simran took me to the nearby park and taught me how to ride a bike. My balance was very unstable, so every time I peddled it evidently led to me falling down. Simran was only 6 when she was teaching me, yet she was calm and patient with me. In the process of remembering that, I woke up and looked around my room. A little teddy bear stood on my desk. That teddy bear was given to me by Anuj. The little grey rock had a banner which said, “I will miss you!” I stared at the idol for a couple of seconds, yet this time I did not cry. I realized that nothing was going to stop them from moving. I just had to get over the fact, that this is not the end. My mom finally stopped talking, and saw me on the…

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,…

them but she made something great out of them , Little Women. Even though I have never read this book , reading about Louisa’s life make me want to spend some time reading it. She portrayed her life and everything that made Louisa , Louisa and not only in Little Women but every book , poem or journal she wrote. She has inspired many young women in not only the nineteenth century but in today 's world. I really enjoyed researching about her life and how she was a strong very brave…

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…

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…

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…

Classic Book Essay The book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, was first published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. It’s about four sisters that are trying to figure life out and stumble along the way. Little Women should be considered a classic. It has universal themes, high quality writing and gives a view into life in the 1800s. One of the reasons Little Women should be considered a classic is because it contains universal themes. As an example, the characters Jo and Laurie fights the…

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…

Michael Ende’s novel, “Momo” is a reflection on the nature of time. The author suggests that there is a loss of humanity when people lose a sense of the true value of time. This fiction illuminates truths about real life as the heroine ventures off to save her town from the men in grey. Through her quest, the story conveys that time has to be enjoyed like children and that there is no saving time. Momo and her friends illustrate the importance of a life of quality. Before the arrival of the…