Beth March, short for Elizabeth, has never been much of a book character. Always quiet and timid, never outspoken. Held dearly is the hearts of many readers, but rarely favored over all the March sisters. However, Julian did favor Beth. Julia had a feeling the majority of the book there was always something brimming on the edge of Beth’s tongue. Something she wants to say, but will never. Julia cried when Beth died. She’s sure she was not the only one who cried, but she was truly outraged.
Julia reread the book four times since the first. Always hoping she would find a part where Beth spoke out, where she said what she actually wanted to. Julian never found that part. Julia could relate to Beth.
“I wish I could be like Jo,” Julia muttered to herself. Julia thought of the more bold of the March sisters. Despite Julia’s wishes she fell under the Beth category. She would never do or say anything that would compromise her all so predicable reputation. Not that she cared for her reputation. She just had no idea how to break free from it without doing something regretful.
As Julia often did, she skimmed through the parts with just Beth in them. The parts never changed. Beth would always repeat the same thing for eternity, and Julia will reread it. She knew Beth’s lines so well now that she could play her perfectly in a screen adaption of Little Women and never have to glance at the script.
Julia closes the book, and places it back on the book shelf. The book shelf holds an estimated amount of twenty books. That was another part of Julia’s reputation. She is a known book worm.
Julia sits down in bed, curling under her periwinkle comforter. Her room theme is completely periwinkle with touches of dark green. The periwinkle...
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...ne of those dreams where you learn some big moral lesson, is it?”
“Only if you want it to be,” both Jo and Meg reply simultaneously.
“Are you saying I should learn to speak out at times, yet other times I should keep quiet?” Julia questions.
Jo nods. Meg replies, “Now it’s up to you on whether you choose to listen to us, or not.”
Julia thinks about this for a minute. Finally she says, “No thanks. Stuff like this only happens in movies, and books.”
“Well, it’s up to you,” Meg says.
Suddenly Julia hears the sound of a loud buzzing. Her eyes pop open. She throws her hand to the snooze button on her alarm clock.
Questions swam through her mind. How would Beth decode a dream such as that one? How would Jo decode it? Finally she thinks to herself, how would I decode it?
Julia sits up, and starts dressing. At least for now, she can live with being shy.
...to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped- for liberty.” Never knowing what was going to happen next, like St. John wasn’t first portrayed as a cousin but at the end he was being portrayed as a husband rather than even a cousin all because of Jane. She puts the twist and turn into the story, which causes the reader to being pushed or perceived into liking Jane.
...own choices and the uncertainty that accompanies growing up. Rachel Marsh is a twelve year old indentured servant at the beginning of this novel. She is as lucky in her establishment as she is ill-fated in her sole remaining family member, the crucial, predictable, corrupt and wicked uncle. She is (and was in reality) the nursemaid to John and Abigail Adams. Abigail, an intelligent and forward thinking woman, mentors the young Rachel with books and unfettered opinions. While she is on her quest “to better herself,” she meets up with many of the pivotal figures of the Boston Massacre, such as Henry Knox, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. Central to Rachel’s saga is her friendship with a young redcoat who becomes involved in the Massacre, causing Rachel even more confusion as she makes her mind up about liberty, civil actions and personal and national freedom and identity.
Julia - Julia is an enthusiastic participant in the Two Minutes Hate directed against Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith, a fellow worker in the Ministry of Truth, is both excited and disgusted by Julia and has fantasies of raping and then murdering her. Winston also fears that Julia is a member of the Thought Police.
and starts to loose her words a bit. She says this quote in a way that
Her attendance at the picnic with Tea Cake was an act of faith, taking the relationship into the public arena. Social condemnation was fast in coming, especially because she discarded her mourning colors. She was free of Jody, so she also took steps to defy the restrictions that social convention placed on her behavior. Gaining personal freedom was a two-fold process. First, she had to be free in her private life, but she also had to free herself from restricting social attitudes. Only then could she begin to heal the rift between her outside self and her inside self.
Starting as a journalist that does what she is told Julia breaks escapes the boundaries of her marriage: by no longer doing as Bertrand tells her to do, and no longer falls victim to his appearance by having sex after they fight. By doing this she feels free to to overcome society's rules, as many people are telling her to stop after she has written her article of the Vel d’Hiv, and starts to look for
Julia was on the confederate side as aforementioned and Edwina was on the union’s side. In a letter that is dated May 10, 1861 Julia tells Edwina how Eli, her son, went to Nashville to join the Confederate Army. Edwina then in reply sends a letter dated May 25, 1861 that tells Julia of how Henry, Edwina’s son, is thinking about enlisting in the Union. Another disparity between the two sisters is that Julia says in the same letter that dates May 10, 1861 that their cause is just and that rising to fight for their right to live the way they choose is honorable. Edwina doesn’t have the same way as thinking as she says reply to Julia’s letter, “You say this is the honorable path. I am afraid I do not see the honor in leaving one’s country.” One more way the two sister’s differ is that Julia does not mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln as Edwina does. In one of the letters sent by Edwina she says, “How quickly joy turns to sorrow! We are all in mourning for the president.” Julia when sending a letter in reply says, “Though I do not mourn the late president, I am as horrified by his death as you are.” These are just some of the main differences between the two sisters and their families. Though the two families have some differences they also compare in some
Instead, the novel begins with the seemingly disappointed statement: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that [rainy] day," and counters almost immediately with, "I was glad of it; I never liked long walks." When excluded from Christmas revelries in the Reed household, the child Jane says, "To speak the truth, I had not the least wish to go into company." Jane's defiance, which doesn't exclude childlike fears, strikes us as forthright in the way of the adolescent temperaments of other famous literary voices -- Jo March of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield and their now-countless younger siblings.
...control individuals differently but it still has a negative effect. However, Jane refers to books such as St. Paul’s letters from the New Testament of the Bible to describe his character. This could show how St. John is a calm and graceful man because of the aftermath of the Old Testament. In comparison, St. John’s sisters (Diana and Mary Rivers) both show heartfelt compassion towards Jane which contrasts with St John’s more dutiful sense.
She was willing to let go of her pride and commitment to only be with each other in a marriage so her family could live in peace. For example, Casey says, “It ain’t right, me going up there. You’re my wife” (Offutt 143). Casey didn’t want to be with anyone else, besides his wife. Although Beth told Casey to do this for their family, she didn't throw the incident in his face for being with another woman nor become angry and spiteful.
... of tragedy and lets her be the diamond in the rough. She is the one person whose vision is unaltered from the very beginning of the book and to her the other survivors draw their own courage.
...look" for the first time in her life. The Victorian element of the 1800s has been brought down to a more reasonable level through Lizzie. The wild feminist in Laura has been tamed by the life threatening experience and the overpowering devotion of her sister.
As the sisters gathered together to celebrate Marmee's birthday, they agreed that their lives were happy, rich and full. The little women had become cultured, confident young ladies. There at the table, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, along with one empty chair, symbolizing their love for Beth, sat the contented mother. She wished that such a moment could last forever.
Catherine is 17 years old in this play, and is growing up to become a woman, while starting to think independently as seen in her clothing choices. However, Eddie is against this idea of her blossoming into a woman, as seen when he says, "You're getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can't be so friendly, kid." At the same time, Beatrice gives Catherine advise that she should not be so dependent on Eddie and that she should view herself as an independent woman instead of letting Eddie dictate her life, when she says, "You're a woman […] and now the time came when you said goodbye." Through the story, Catherine is put in a spot where she does not want to leave eith...