Little Women
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In Little Women, you will meet the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy who live with their mother, Marmee, and their maid Hannah, during the Civil War. The first half of the novel takes place while their father is away, serving in the war. Each sister has a distinct personality, a reader, an artist, a musician, the quiet one. You will get to know this family in touching little stories of their daily life. Each chapter seems to set up a moral lesson for the reader to learn. We also meet a wonderful set of neighbors, Mr. Laurence and his nephew "Laurie" who quickly find a place as part of the March family.
The second half of the novel, focuses on the girls as they leave their childhood and begin their journey into adult life. Lessons of friendship, family, and love are covered as we join the characters through the ups and downs of life, good times and bad. It seems that Louisa May Alcott used her own family as the basis for the stories in Little Women, basing the character Jo on herself. It is amazing how though the book was written in the late 1800's, so many things about humans remain the same. The foundations of life that are important in friendships, family & love don't change through time, as Alcott has shared with us. This is a book that young and old can read and appreciate。

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　　Alcott's original work explores the overcoming of character flaws (many of the chapter titles in this first part are allusions to the allegorical concepts and places in Pilgrim's Progress). When young, the girls played Pilgrim's Progress by taking an imaginary journey through their home. As young women, they agree to continue the figurative journey, using the "guidebooks" — copies of the New Testament, described as 'that beautiful old story of the best life ever lived (chapter 1, see also chapter 19) — they receive on Christmas morning. Each of the March girls must struggle to overcome a major character flaw: Meg, vanity; Jo, a hot temper; Beth, shyness; and Amy, selfishness. The girls must work out these flaws in order to become mothers, wives, sisters and citizens.

In the course of the novel, the girls become friends with their next-door neighbor, the teenage boy Laurie, who becomes a particular friend of Jo's. As well as the more serious and sadder themes outlined above, the book describes the activities of the sisters and their friend, such as creating a newspaper and picnicking, and the various scrapes that Jo and Laurie get into. The story represents family relationships and explores family life thoroughly.

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　　《小妇人》读后感：
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Little Women
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In Little Women, you will meet the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy who live with their mother, Marmee, and their maid Hannah, during the Civil War. The first half of the novel takes place while their father is away, serving in the war. Each sister has a distinct personality, a reader, an artist, a musician, the quiet one. You will get to know this family in touching little stories of their daily life. Each chapter seems to set up a moral lesson for the reader to learn. We also meet a wonderful set of neighbors, Mr. Laurence and his nephew "Laurie" who quickly find a place as part of the March family.
The second half of the novel, focuses on the girls as they leave their childhood and begin their journey into adult life. Lessons of friendship, family, and love are covered as we join the characters through the ups and downs of life, good times and bad. It seems that Louisa May Alcott used her own family as the basis for the stories in Little Women, basing the character Jo on herself. It is amazing how though the book was written in the late 1800's, so many things about humans remain the same. The foundations of life that are important in friendships, family & love don't change through time, as Alcott has shared with us. This is a book that young and old can read and appreciate。

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　　[《小妇人》的英文读后感]
little women is a novel published in 一八六八 and
written by american author louisa may alcott. the story concerns
the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the american
civil war. it was based on alcotts own experiences as a child in
concord, massachusetts with her three sisters, anna, may, and
elizabeth.
little women is a novel published in 一八六八 and
written by american author louisa may alcott. the story concerns
the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the american
civil war. it was based on alcotts own experiences as a child in
concord, massachusetts with her three sisters, anna, may, and
elizabeth.
little women is the story of the marches, a
family used to hard toil and suffering. although father march is
away with the union armies, the sisters meg, jo, amy and beth keep
in high spirits with their mother, affectionately named marmee.
their friendly gift of a christmas holiday breakfast to a
neighbouring family is an act of generosity rewarded with wealthy
mr. laurences gift of a surprise christmas feast. however, despite
their efforts to be good, the girls show faults: the pretty meg
becomes discontented with the children she teaches; boyish jo loses
her temper regularly; while the golden-haired schoolgirl amy is
inclined towards affectation. however, beth, who keeps the house is
always kind and gentle. after certain happy times winning over the
laurences, dark times arrive as marmee finds out about her
husbands illness. worse is to come as beth contracts scarlet fever
in her samaritan efforts for a sick neighbour and becomes more or
less an invalid. the novel tells of their progress into young
womanhood with the additional strains of romance, beths terminal
illness, the pressures of marriage and the outside world. this is
the story of their growing maturity and wisdom and the search for
the contentedness of family life. it was written in 一八六七 and is a
fictionalised biography of alcott and her sisters. it has become a
much loved classic tale and, while some of its issues seem
outdated, many of the trials of the sisters are all too relevant
today as evidenced by its continued following. 名著读后感范文
〔《小妇人》的英文读后感〕随文赠言：【这世上的一切都借希望而完成，农夫不会剥下一粒玉米，如果他不曾希望它长成种粒；单身汉不会娶妻，如果他不曾希望有孩子；商人也不会去工作，如果他不曾希望因此而有收益。】