MARCH BAM

MY BOOK

• Little Woman, by Louisa May Alcott
• Reason: the title in itself was interesting to me

RATING

• I loved this book. It teaches that even when living in poverty, it is important to always be a giving, caring person.

JO MARCH

• the tomboy of her family, her hair is her only beauty
• Her passion is writing
• She is very outspoken with a fiery temper to match
• The 3rd oldest of the March sisters

MEG MARCH

• Oldest of the March sisters
• Has a big weakness for luxury, but she marries a poor man
• The prettiest out of the sisters
• She's your typical housewife

SETTING

• The end of the Civil War, in New England

THE BEGINNING SITUATION

• It's Christmas and the sisters are arguing about what they'll get for a present to their mother
• Their father is away and they're poor, so they don't get any presents

CONFLICT

• The girls struggle with being poor and having nice things like their friends do
• In the end they all accept that they came from a humble background, but do everything they can to become better people from it.

MEG'S CONFLICT

• She has always struggled with not having nice things
• Wants to live a life of luxury
• Very prim and proper
• In the end she marries a poor man, deciding that love is better than luxury

THE TITLE AND THEME

• The book is based a little around the war
• The sisters try and keep to their duties of being at home and helping their mother out instead of wanting to be somewhere else
• They strive to be "little women" and knowing what their duties are to their family

QUOTE

• "Money is a needful and precious thing. When well used; a noble thing. But I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace." --- Mrs. March, ch. 9, p. 97
• Meg allowed herself to be very luxuriously dressed up for a party and is made a fool.
• The sisters discover that marrying for money is a foolish thing to do; do it for love