Qualities of One in Little Women

            I'm still reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It's a really good book. I really want to talk about one of the characters in the book. The characters in this book are so fascinating. The one that I just read about and want to talk about is Meg. The March family isn't that rich. Meg was invited to a party of the Moffats and the Moffats. Meg has only one party dress but compared to the dresses of the Moffats it was like rags. When she goes there no one pays any attention to her because of what she was wearing. She overheard people talking about her. The next day the Moffat girls came to her and said they wanted to dress her up so that her beauty would come out.
            She eagerly agrees because she does want to look pretty. After she goes down the people who praised her when she was wearing her own simple dress were shaking her head at her. They were saying how she looked better in the simple dress. Laurie the boy that Meg likes even said that she didn't look like herself in the fancy dress. He said she would look much better in the simple dress. Right when Meg heard these two comments she wanted to change. The things that the people close to her affected her so much that she got embarrassed. After she went back home she said that she learned her lesson. A few small words from the people she new her the most changed her completely on the idea of needing fanciers clothes. These days everyone is so stubborn and won't change their mind.

Strong Women in Little Women

I just started the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. This book is really good so far. Except in this response I don’t want to talk about the book in general. I’m going to talk about the strongest relationships in this book and connect them to our life. I feel like the relationships that you see in this book won’t be that common these days in our life. It’s the relationship of mother and daughter and father and daughter.

In the book the March sisters have a very close relationship with their mother Marmee. Each of them are always eager to hear their mother first thing in the morning and when she comes home. If a inexpensive gift is given to them by their mother it’s much more valuable to them than any other gift. When their mother comes home they rush around to make things comfortable for her. They share everything with their mother. The thing that is shocking is that they are ages of sixteen to maybe eight. All have equal relationships with their mother. these days teenagers don’t like to share everything with their mother. They want to be independent.

The March sisters have a very important relationship with their father. Their father works far away so he can’t stay with them. The sisters haven’t seen their father in a very long time. They only hear his words through the letter that he sends all the time. In the book their father just send them a letter and he said he wants them to be perfect little children for their mother. All of them at once started to think of how they would be better for their mother. They wanted to please their father.

These relationships is not what you would find in families today. They are very rare. Teenagers now are very different from those in the book and from those back then.

The Goodness of Grass

The beautiful grass is flowers in sight.

For when the wind blows, the thin grass quivers.

The bright green shines in the ray of the light

and white light bounces off as it shivers.

The rain droplets pile up and have to slip

but not before glistening like diamonds

and the rain droplets making the grass dip

forming upside down shapes of cute almonds.

During those days they’re never forgotten

because everyone comes out to have fun

or sit and enjoy the grass like cotton.

For it won’t stay because it has to run.

When winter comes they shrivel up and die

to come again to get ready to fly.