Louisa May Alcott

Women's Identities in The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple has a rich array of female characters to examine when answering the above question. I feel that Louisa May Alcott’s short story, “Behind A Mask” offers an equally rich array of female characters to consider. Through the course of this essay I will show how Walker and Alcott used different narrative techniques and made different use of language and dialogue to create

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them” (Alcott). A woman by the name of Louisa May Alcott said this in one of her books titled Marjorie 's Three Gifts. When Alcott mentions this, she brings up the idea that everyday objects can be beautiful, and that it depends on how you look at them. This difference in the way people view everyday objects is the difference between just walking past something or stopping to admire the object. There are many ways

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is brought to life by the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Theatre and Dance at B. Iden Payne Theatre. Little Women occurs in Concord, Massachusetts between 1863 and 1866. It’s talks about the lives of the four March sisters named Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother Marmee. The March family is poor and their father has gone to fight in the Civil War. Megs and Jo both work to support the family. Beth helps with housework, and Amy is still in school. The

J Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsytvania on November 29, 1832. She had three sisters and were raised by their father Bronson Alcott, who was a teacher and a philosopher and their Christian mother Abigail May. Bronson Alcott was well known for his controversial teaching methods which relied more on student involvement and a belief that children should enjoy learning. In 1843, the Alcott family took part in an experimental communal village known as the Fruitlands. Louisa's dad, Bronson

Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both completely different people and yet share the same ideals which is transcendentalism. Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott, and her early life was profoundly influenced by Transcendentalism. Throughout her childhood, the family was quite poor but idealistic. In 1843, Alcott, her three sisters, and her parents joined the transcendentalist uprising

people choose to do something is the desire to help others. People choose to do something nice when they yearn to do it and people choose to be selfish when they have the wish to only care about themselves and not others. In “Little Women”, by Louisa May Alcott, the March family’s desire is to help the Hummels, a poor, homeless, immigrant family who is starving and freezing. When the March family brought supplies to the family in need, they started a fire and fixed up the little room for the family

Louisa May Alcott was an author who volunteered as nurse during the Civil War. While she was serving she sent out letters to her friends and family. These letters later became a book titled “Hospital Sketches”. In this excerpt of the book, Louisa tells of a patient she took care of named John. She describes him in detail, saying that he was physically and mentally very strong and was determined not to die. “He seemed to cling to life, as if it were rich in duties and delights.” However, John was

Louisa May Alcott’s “My Contraband” explores the controversial aspects of gender roles, interracial relationships, sexual desires, and political imagination during the climax of the American Civil War. Alcott’s viewpoint and argument is framed by utilizing main characters that would have been considered stereotypically inferior peoples at the time: Faith Dane (a female nurse) and Robert (a mixed “mulatto” and freed slave). The author daringly challenges views held by a majority of the U.S. population

Abbi Sullins Mrs. Nix AP US History 2 October 2017 Born to Create Change Louisa May Alcott was in every way born to become a reformist. It is even said that “[a]s an adult, Louisa May sometimes signed her letters, ‘Yours for reforms of all kinds’” (Concord Women Cast First Votes). Growing up in early nineteenth century Massachusetts, “a crucible of reform movements,” to parents who were both incredibly dedicated to reformation, she was exposed to many different reform movements throughout the entirety

1.) Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Edited by Bessie Z. Jones. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. Hospital Sketches is a compilation of three short stories based on the letters Louisa May Alcott sent home to her family in Concord, Massachusetts during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army in Georgetown, which lies just outside of Washington, D.C. Alcott explains her decision to become a nurse and the journey from Massachusetts