Book Review by Amruta Victor Pereira, Roll No- 41, SYBEd 2019-21
Little
women is a story of 4 sisters named Margaret called as Meg, Josephine called as
Jo, Elizabeth called as Beth and youngest one was Amy, living with their mother
Mrs. March in their house with maid Hannah who was more like family member now
as she was there with them since many years. Their father Mr. March was in Army
fighting. They were not rich and they felt bad sometimes about it but they were
contended with whatever they had mostly because they had each other for moral
support.
In
this story many different characters are shown with different personalities
which even we face in our day to day life. There is at least one character to
which you will get attached, as it almost resembles you or you would related to
each character at something or the other point or quality.
As
this story deals with daily struggles of life
it becomes interesting as we go on reading it with each passing page.
The
four girls called their mother as " Marmee" in this book. They highly
respected their mother and inspired her, as she was their pillar of support
with their father not around them. Their mother on other hand always told them
stories with very good values of life. And not only that but, made them put
into action too. One such incident is that even though they were poor,
Christmas morning was the only morning when they used to have good breakfast
with lot of Christmas sweets, but once on Christmas their mother asked them to
sacrifice their mouth-watering breakfast to the poor family Little away from
their house, who didn't had even wood in the house to save themselves from
freezing cold on Christmas morning, that family had 6 children and mother with
new born also had nothing to eat. All the Girls put their big girl socks on and
took everything to that poor family and fed all the children and also their
mother. Whenever their mother asked them to do something they never refused.
They
used to eagerly wait for their father's letter and used to behave good only for
their father and he called his all 4 daughters as his "little women".
They used to listen and respect their mother because father told them to do so.
Every time they used to get letter from their father they became emotional and
read with love and also feeling of longing for their father.
This
book further deals with various phases of life, which March family goes
through. It includes all fours girl's personal life which also includes Meg's
love life and Jo's book publication. Beth also catches viral fever and doesn’t
get full recovered through it. Amy works with old aunt March where Jo used to work previously.
Amidst
of this their family gets bad news of their Dad getting sick which makes
everyone in the worried. Their Marmee goes to nurse Mr. March and stays with
him.
This
is how with various twists and turns in life of 4 girls and their family how
they stay together and overcome their difficulties with love and care for one
another even if it takes their sacrifice they did it willingly.
This book on my personal note influenced me a lot to stay strong in life
and be with your family and support them as they are the ones who stay with you
through thick and thin.
Reference:
Alcott, L. M. (2002). Little women. ProQuest Ebook
Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
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