Resumo de Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Write your abstract here.A harp, a piano, a flute. More
piano playing,

flute,

and a short and melancholy bit of violin playing.

Alternation between piano and harp during a brief

interval. Soft guitar, followed by gentle, rythmic
playing of

drums.

Louder drums, intermingled with cymbals. Finally, a

cacophony of modern, electric drums and guitar,
combined

with several sets of cymbals.

This is the only possible way to accurately describe

Louisa

May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN. This masterpiece opens in
a

warm

yet drab parlor, wherein reside the four March
girls.

Ever

the tomboy, Jo lies on the rug, destroying her
knitting.

Meg

and Amy work industriously while shy but attentive
Beth

listens with such interest to the others'
conversation

that

she toasts Marmee's slippers rather than the bread!

The March family lives a comfortable life during the

first

part of the book. Rambunctious Jo makes the
acquaintance

of

Theodore (Laurie) Laurence, a shy young man who
becomes

the

March family's close friend. Meg and Amy are
hopeless

aesthetes--constantly pursuing physical beauty and

popularity. Though her dread at playing her
treasured

piano

for anyone except her family is immeasurable, Beth's

perseverance wins the affections of Laurie's father
and

she

is soon presented with a baby grand piano. Marmee is
the

model mother, giving the March sisters wise counsel

according to the Judeo-Christian tradition. The
Bible

and

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS serve as the bases of Marmee's

teachings.

As Part I progresses, the family must face the
illnesses

of

both Beth and their recently-returned father. Joyful
are

the

first moments of the latter's homecoming--a
beautiful

Christmas gift.

Part II opens with Meg's marriage to John Brooke,

Laurie's

former tutor. Though their marriage is not perfect,
they

and

their children constitute a loving family.

Following this episode in the March history, the
plot

becomes convoluted and extraordinarily unrealistic.

During

Beth's last moments of life, Jo is entangled in a

devastating "break-up" with Laurie; Laurie is in hot

pursuit

of Amy; and Jo's German tutor is falling madly in
love

with

her. Contrary to the unromantic, no-nonsense nature
that

Jo

has set forth throughout the book, she decides to
marry

the

elderly man. The tale ends abruptly in an enormous

family

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