Analysis Of Little Women

Dark Days Advanced Composition Little Women Close Reading

Passage: p. 151: from " Never had the sun risen so beautifully" until "watching the dazzling sight"

Structure:

1. This passage is about being thankful for life.

2. This passage is about happiness and joy through weariness.

3. This passage is expressing joy in a new beginning, a fresh start.

4. The pain and weariness that Jo and Meg are experiencing are lifted.

5. This passage is about emotional release after a life and death situation.

6. Meg and Jo see life for the beauty it contains rather than the bleakness they were experiencing during their sorrow.

7. This passage is about rejoicing.

8. A vigil was ending.

Word Meaning:

9. “Never had the sun risen so beautifully”, “never

We also can see a metaphor when Meg thinks that the outside looks like a fairy world. She does not intentionally mean that the world looks like a supernatural environment, she is seeing life as enchanting and mystical with the recovery of Beth and her relieved feelings.

26. “Heavy eyes” is another metaphor used this passage to relate to how tired and weary Meg and Jo were that morning. Their eyes were literally not heavy but rather they were exhausted and sleep was upon them.

Textual Context:

27. This passage of Little Women has significant context toward the text by relating how close of a bond that the March sisters shared.

28. During this moment of the reading, you see through Meg and Jo 's eyes how they felt as the weight of the world b lifted began lifting off of them.

29. It was a moment in the passage when you could imagine birds singing, flowers growing and the sun shining by the way that the passage read according to their emotions.

Themes:

30. The emotions that are expressed due to Beth getting well is the main theme of the passage, but later in the reading when Beth dies, we have thematic opposition.

31. Relief and joy are themes that are included in this passage but also play a significant role throughout the novel.

32. Sisterhood is another major theme that is