The Theme Of Family In Little Women By Louisa May Alcott

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

What is a family? As a young child, Kingsolver played in her room with a toy set called “The Family of Dolls”, which served as the perfect example of what a “real” family is: “four in number, who came with the factory-assigned names of Dad, Mom, Sis, and Junior.” She always ended up comparing her family to this perfect idea of a family that she played with. As a grown-up Kingsolver went through divorce herself, creating a “broken” home for her child. Kingsolver experienced the abnormalness and society’s ideals pushed through her head. But although her family was

Imagine: A young boy scavenges for food to provide for his impoverished family which was composed of his ill mother and starving siblings or a homeless, single mom desperatley seeking for shelter. These synopses from "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry share a common theme: perseverance through hardships. In "Angela's Ashes," a memoir by Frank McCourt, he stells about the harships he endured through his childhood, such as, struggling to assist his family in the midst of poverty by stealing food to provide for them. Futhermore, in "The Street," a novel by Ann Petry, tells the story of young Lutie Johnson, a homeless single mom who is seeking shelter for herself and her children. In these two excerpts, the authors use the characters, settings, and events to develop the theme, which I've identified as perseverance through hardships.

Many times people are asked to think about what is important to them. A person may say their home, car, children, material items and some may even say family. In the book Little Women (1868-1869) written by Louisa May Alcott illustrates several family values. The story of the March family starts out during the civil war in New England. The family is left to survive on their own because their father went to protect his country. During the years of life the March children, Margaret (Meg), Josephine (Jo), Beth and Amy, had to face the fact that they were very poor, and couldn't have everything that they fancied. As the family stayed home and awaited the return of their father they received "fatherly" support from an old neighbor Mr.

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

Firstly how does the novel show the theme of family in the novel. An example from the novel is when Ada wants to move to the city to find a job in the city. But she can’t because she has to stay at home and look after her family because her mum has died and her dad is always drunk, so if she leaves things might go badly. Also, family is shown in the novel when Willand Murray don’t talk much anymore because after what happened

An example of how her family values each other is her description of the conventions and norms of her family. They are thoroughly supportive of one another, attending every graduation, baby shower, birthday, and house warming party. Her father and siblings have burial plots together so that they are never separated. Life is lived with everyone being connected and concerned for not only each person’s well-being, but happiness as well. She says her “relatives form an alliance that represents a genuine and enduring love of family…”

Family is important to live a happy, healthy life. A poor, black family, the Youngers, live together in a small house in Chicago in the 1950s. Their main focus is not getting money, but staying together and loving each other. Lena, Walter's mother, is the head of the family and live out the moral of the importance of family. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Lena attempts to bring her plant back to life, which can be a symbol of the family struggling.

Poverty is and has been an issue for the majority of human history but that lack of resource and struggle to live where one could even be excused for being selfish is where miracles of humanitarianism and empathy for each others pain is shown. The loss of a family member especially the largest wage earner leads to potential starvation and a sense of hopelessness. In the case of Francie Nolan and her brother Neeley, a close friend of their

A very dramatic situation is described on page 36. Richard Wright´s mother who must lead the family now, the father has left the family, does not have enough money to pay for rent. She had some money from her mother, but the money is gone now and that is why she cannot buy food and she cannot take a proper care of little Richard and his brother. Richard´s mother has been thinking over this situation for a long time and she has been looking for possible solutions. She finally found a job – she washed up in a kitchen for white people but even the money she earned here was not enough to feed her and her two children. She was finally made to make a very uneasy decision. Her life situation made her put her children into an orphan house for some

There is three wonderful siblings living in Ecuador, Maniela is ten years old, Mary is seven and Josue is five. They live in a house that is made of a cottage wood with their parents. It looks like a pie, and it’s made of stick. Their father is addicted to alcohol and drugs. He does not work or care about them. Their poor mother is the only one who takes care of them. She works as housekeeper. She gets only about 300 dollars a month. When she gets bake home, she cooks for her children whatever they have. As they wait for her to come bake, they stare to the food until it’s cook. They do not have an oven in their house, so their mother cooks on a stone with a wood. They often eat one to two times a day. As the picture is showing, they looked

The literary work of Louisa May Alcott is world renowned, and familiar to most readers. Perhaps her most famous work is Little Women, which is why I selected this book for further characterization of Louisa May Alcott in Murder by the Book. Little Women gives prime examples of Louisa’s writing voice, and a loose biography of her life. This work gave the opportunity to compare Jo, Louisa May Alcott, and the Raven Society member. Louisa May Alcott’s simplistic script proved valuable in advanced characterization for Murder by the Book.

One thing that stood out was that in the face of hardship, people often extended the hand of help to the people going through the difficulties. In some modern societies, there is the replication of the same where people make contributions to help people who are in financial or emotional difficulties. Going back to the Sula, there is the portrayal of people offering help to people going through hard times. When BoyBoy left Eva after having been unsatisfied by the marriage life, Eva had little to hold onto. Morrison, (1973) observed that she only had five eggs, $ 1.65, three beets and no emotional standings. She had a lot of responsibilities on her shoulders one of such being providing food to her children. Hunger and confusion engulfed her. However, people did not leave her alone in her abyss of sufferings. The author outlined that the Suggs living in the area “brought her a warm bowl of peas, as soon as they found out, and a plate of cold bread” (Morrison, 1973). Eva would also take a bucket to Mrs. Jackson to fill it up with the milk. The authors added that the people continued helping Eva up to December which was the culmination of the end of the year.

When analyzing the change in the Little family’s lifestyle using Stratums C -- before the introduction of the railroad-- and B -- after the introduction of the railroad -- evidence of this transformation exists through the increase of manufactured food products. For instance, in Stratum B, the container in the highest quantity, as indicated in the above summary, is cans of condensed milk that, according to the additional notes, were canned in a factory. This contrasts with Stratum C in which the most prevalent item is empty canning jars (an item that decreases to just nine units in Stratum B) so as to demonstrate changes to the Little family’s subsistence strategy through the presence of the railroad by indicating their ability to rely on industrialization rather than individual agency to produce food.

In Little Women the four sisters were very close and spent much of their time together. They play-acted together and frolicked around the house. They challenged each other, they supported each other, and they quarreled with each other, as siblings do. For example, Amy burned Jo’s treasured notebook because she was not allowed to attend The Seven Castles of the Diamond Lake with Laurie, Meg, and Jo. Jo was furious with Amy. The next day Jo and Laurie went ice skating and Amy followed after them, which led to her falling into the ice. Jo’s anger had been festering, but her love for her sister overrode the previous day’s quarrel. Together the sisters endured mishaps and hardships. For example, Meg provided Amy with a quarter to pay off her debt for the pickled limes at school. Yes, Amy ended up humiliated for hiding the pickled limes in her desk. However, this shows how the sisters provided support for one another.