As I grew up, my mother was a very hard woman. I could never quite understand why she kept herself distant from me, and how she usually refused to show any kind of love towards me. All through childhood I never understood who she really was, and why she raised me like she did. So this is the story of her life, June Alcott’s life, and how she came to be who she is today. June was born to Sarah and Laurence Alcott in the autumn of 1796, in east Lancashire. Laurence was a textile factory owner, and would subsequently mover from upper-middle to upper class whilst June grew up, as his textile business boomed. She got to experience the best childhood, as she was the youngest of 9, with six sisters and two brothers. Being the youngest she was able to experience growing up with her father’s newfound riches the most. June didn’t enjoy schooling with her governess very much, preferring to play games with her sister closest in age Betty or run around the factory. Her other siblings became rather jealous of June, particularly the older ones who had moved out and married. Her eldest sibling Margarite was 20 when she was born. They compared their upbringing to June’s, which was far stricter and without the small luxuries June was allowed. Although her siblings could occasionally be mean to her, her parents thought the world of her and always defended June. As June got older it became apparent that she was an excellent seamstress. She made the finest clothes with frills and lace, much nicer than anyone else in her family could make. At the many events her family was invited to she would war her favourite dresses. She made others for the females in the family too. Some older woman would say that June’s dresses were too inappropriate, but in fact... ... middle of paper ... ... went against every belief society had for women and raised an illegitimate child on her own. She still works as a seamstress, and poor Frank is very old. He says he will give mother the shop when he dies. We are at peace now. She admits now she was a terrible mother. I tell her not to be so hard on herself she did her best. She tells me her story with tears in her eyes, telling me to write it down so my children and their children after won’t make the same mistakes. I believe her mistakes all ended up okay. I turned out okay. She turned out okay, from an over-indulged young woman to a hardened lady who knew what suffering really was. I only need to know my extended family and my father through her stories. Perhaps one day one will find us, or one day June and I will visit. But for now, we are content; we have found a harmony that ‘proper’ families may never reach.
After Toosweet (Anne’s mother), quit a domestic job she had with a lady that worked her so hard, she got another domestic job with the Johnson’s. Mrs. Johnson was a school teacher and Mr. Johnson was a rancher who bought and sold cattle. The Johnson were very nice to Anne and her family. However, it was Mr. Johnson mother, Miss Ola, who lived with the Johnson’s that appeared to have impacted Anne the most in the household. Though Anne did a lot of chores for Miss Ola, Anne learned to like Miss Ola very much and they had lots of fun together. Miss Ola would bake cookies for them every Saturday and had a bell she would ring when she had cooked something for them or wanted them to do something for her. The old lady (Miss Ola) who would call
America had a huge industrial revolution in the late 1800”s. Many changes happened to our great nation, which factored into this. The evidence clearly shows that advancements in new technology, a large wave of immigrants into our country and new views of our government, helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth from the period of 1860-1900.
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, was published in 1868 and follows the lives, loves, and troubles of the four March sisters growing up during the American Civil War.1 The novel is loosely based on childhood experiences Alcott shared with her own sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth, who provided the hearts of the novel’s main characters.2 The March sisters illustrate the difficulties of girls growing up in a world that holds certain expectations of the female sex; the story details the journeys the girls make as they grow to be women in that world. Figures 1 and 2 in the Appendix are of Orchard House, the basis for the March family home, where the Alcotts lived.
Prior to the industrial revolution people rarely experienced change. It was an extremely different place than it is now. During the industrial revolution there was a radical change in the socioeconomic and cultural conditions. People in majority were farmers since they didn’t have any technology everybody had to grow their own food. They were interdependent in maintaining all their necessities, mainly in their local communities because of the difficulty in distant transportation because they had no motorized vehicles. In villages there were private and public lands and in most there was no separating fence. In the public lands or village commons villagers could gather wood or have their livestock graze in the pastures and sum of the less wealthy farmers would even produce crops from it. The rich landowners lived on enormous estates and giant houses, cottages, and massive barns and huge fields. They also had servants who did whatever they wanted. However the people who rented land from them had quite a controversial life style. They often had to live with the farm animals they raised and a considerable amount lived in tinny, smoky, ill lighten, cottages.
The beginning of the book introduces Diana Dalziel, a privileged yet insecure debutante growing up in New York City during the Gilded Age. Young Diana, dissatisfied with her homely appearance, set out on a mission to reinvent herself. She changed her style and mannerisms. She developed grace, wit and poise. “Too bad your sister is so beautiful and you’re so extremely ugly,” her mother told her. Despite the emotional abuse inflicted by from her narcissistic mother, she remained optimistic and eventually achieved her goal of gaining popularity with her peers. Like her socialite mother, she became a regular in the society pages.
Despite her wishes to take on a bigger role around the farm, her mother is constantly reminding her that she should be helping out around the house as opposed to outside. In the narrator's eyes, work in the house was “endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing” whereas work done outside with her father was “ritualistically important”. When the narrator says “I continued to slam the doors and sit as awkwardly as possible, thinking that by such measures I kept myself free”, her rebellion towards these concepts is evident. However, with time she finds herself trying to make her bedroom fancier and becoming more concerned with her appearance. By doing so, it becomes apparent that her family’s persistent nagging is beginning to impact her and she has begun to succumb to the gender roles being forced upon
The American industrial revolution took a dynamic course in history, transforming society with both negative and positive results. For example, some of these positive effects were the creation of new jobs, boosting the economy, and manufacturing of new products. However, there were also the not so nice outcomes, such as low wages, depletion of natural resources, and unsanitary living conditions. Together, both the positive and the negative worked in tandem to transform American society.
Birthplace of Industry from the free library by Farlex, from freelibrary.com the article was about the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, using the new product coke to smelt iron. The Darby family demonstrated the uses of iron by building the first iron bridge. The article showed the inventiveness of people and how they contributed to advancements in technology. Written well and organized conceptually showing the importance of smelting iron with new technology of coke a product of coal.
The industrial revolution was the most important, which started around the eighteenth century towards the nineteenth century in Europe. This great event was the fastest spreading event in human history. The capacity of economy and population growth was unexpected especially at the areas in which it flourished. The industrial revolution benefited almost everyone around the world and brought about new social classes, large cities and many new innovations including medical discoveries especially in Britain as it based it is scientific innovations on experiments and practical work rather than theories and logic.
The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, English People began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. Sometime later they invented locomotives. Productivity began a steep climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain had become the workshop of the world. From Britain the Industrial Revolution spread gradually throughout Europe and to the United States.
In Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women the reader is privy to the impact motherly nurturing has on a young girl. There is about a four-year age difference between Josephine (Jo) March and Francine (Francie) Nolan. The age difference allows a close comparison of the emotional growth that takes place when a mother is present in the life of her daughter. Yet the emotional ties to the mother for each protagonist fits into a different cultural time. The families are both living in an era of poverty, yet the impact of their destitute world is felt in different manners. The story of the March family begins during the era of the Civil War whereas the Nolan family are poverty stricken second generation Irish immigrants
June is the older, responsible sister with a job, who lives at home with her parents. Her description builds on the contrast between Connie and June. June is the complete opposite of Connie because Connie spends her time daydreaming rather than paying respect to her family and being productive. June does not show the conceited characteristics like Connie that their mother criticizes. June is “so plain and chunky and steady that Connie had to hear her praised all the time by her mother and her mother’s sisters” (Oates) shows the purpose of why June is included in the short story. June represents the child that Connie’s mother wishes for and the chasm that was created between Connie and her mother. June is an overweight girl with no ambition or thought for looks. She is dutiful to her parents and does her chores. Therefore, June causes Connie to feel separated from her family where she is looking for comfort and attention from others to fulfill her fantasies shown through her obsession with music. Connie’s disdain for June ...
The Industrial Revolution during 1760 to 1820 in Great Britain was a burgeoning period. The revolution brought massive benefits and changes on socioeconomic and cultural conditions. Firstly, it pushed the development of socioeconomic, and also released a great amount of working opportunity. At second his extraordinary change made the communication and transportation more efficient. Lastly, this revolution it made the production of agriculture boost, and fewer workers were needed in farm work. The Great Britain Industrial Revolution assisted the growth of agriculture, communication, transportation and socioeconomic.
After failing to excel at each task set before her, June begins to feel more and more resentment towards her mother. She sees her mother's hopes as expectations, and when she does not live up to these, she feels like a failure.
Catherine, nicknamed Kitty, is the fourth daughter in the Bennet family. She is “weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance” (206). Like her younger sister, she is carefree and shows little remorse for her behavior. Lydia is the youngest daughter of the Bennet family and the tallest. As the favorite of Mrs. Bennet, she is “self-willed and careless” (206) and, like Catherine, she is “ignorant, idle, and vain” (207). Little concerns her more than potential husbands and officers of the militia. Each daughter of the Bennet family is vital to the complexity of Pride and Prejudice as each of their temperaments contradicts and complements those of the others.