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592	416_chapter_19_drink	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Toms grandmother raises Tom Foster. The grandmother has had a tough life, going from place to place eking out a living for herself and for Tom after Tom's parent's death. They get an opportunity to return back to Winesburg when she finds a pocket book containing some money. So both pack their belongings, and return to ...	[ "DRINK", "Tom Foster came to Winesburg from Cincinnati when he\nwas still young and could get many new impressions. His\ngrandmother had been raised on a farm near the town and\nas a young girl had gone to school there when Winesburg\nwas a village of twelve or fifteen houses clustered\nabout a general store on t...
593	416_chapter_20_death	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Doctor Reefy's office is a large, untidy room, above the Paris Dry Goods Store. Often, George's mother, Elizabeth Willard comes to his office ostensibly to discuss about her health, but more to sit with the doctor and talk of life. George is then a boy of twelve or fourteen, and his mother forty-one years. Elizabeth sp...	[ "DEATH", "The stairway leading up to Doctor Reefy's office, in\nthe Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods store, was\nbut dimly lighted. At the head of the stairway hung a\nlamp with a dirty chimney that was fastened by a\nbracket to the wall. The lamp had a tin reflector,\nbrown with rust and covered with dust...
594	416_chapter_21_sophistication	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is the time of the country fair, at Winesburg. The day is filled with noise and excitement and people, and the night is still and warm. George is looking at the store lights and waiting for Helen White. George has fast grown into manhood. After his mother's death a sense of maturity has filled him and to his mind it...	[ "SOPHISTICATION", "It was early evening of a day in the late fall and the\nWinesburg County Fair had brought crowds of country\npeople into town. The day had been clear and the night\ncame on warm and pleasant. On the Trunion Pike, where\nthe road after it left town stretched away between\nberry fields now covere...
595	416_chapter_22_departure	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	George Willard wakes up from his sleep, early in the morning. His bag is already packed and he is all set. George has decided to leave Winesburg, his hometown, and go out into the world to seek adventures and his own fortune. When he reaches the railway platform he finds many of his folks out there, come to bid him far...	[ "DEPARTURE", "Young George Willard got out of bed at four in the\nmorning. It was April and the young tree leaves were\njust coming out of their buds. The trees along the\nresidence streets in Winesburg are maple and the seeds\nare winged. When the wind blows they whirl crazily\nabout, filling the air and making ...
581	416_a_man_of_ideas	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Joe Welling, an agent for the Standard Oil company, lives in Winesburg with his mother. He has a tendency to get big ideas about things in his head and then he tells people about them enthusiastically. He falls in love with Sarah King, a young woman with a dangerous brother and father. However, when they come to threat...	[ "A MAN OF IDEAS", "He lived with his mother, a grey, silent woman with a\npeculiar ashy complexion. The house in which they lived\nstood in a little grove of trees beyond where the main\nstreet of Winesburg crossed Wine Creek. His name was\nJoe Welling, and his father had been a man of some\ndignity in the commun...
582	416_adventure	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Twenty-seven-year-old Alice Hindman has lived in Winesburg all her life. She works as a clerk in the dry goods store. When she was a young woman of sixteen, she had a romance with Ned Currie. Just before he went away to the city to make his career, they had sexual relations. When he first got to the city, Ned wrote to ...	[ "ADVENTURE", "Alice Hindman, a woman of twenty-seven when George\nWillard was a mere boy, had lived in Winesburg all her\nlife. She clerked in Winney's Dry Goods Store and lived\nwith her mother, who had married a second husband.", "Alice's step-father was a carriage painter, and given\nto drink. His story is a...
589	416_an_awakening	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	George often goes to see Belle Carpenter, a young milliner who lives with her father Henry, a bookkeeper in the local bank. Belle is in love with the bartender Ed Handby, even though they have only spent one evening in each other's company. Belle walks in the evenings with George as an outlet for her passion for the ot...	[ "AN AWAKENING", "Belle Carpenter had a dark skin, grey eyes, and thick\nlips. She was tall and strong. When black thoughts\nvisited her she grew angry and wished she were a man\nand could fight someone with her fists. She worked in\nthe millinery shop kept by Mrs. Kate McHugh and during\nthe day sat trimming hats...
593	416_death	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Elizabeth Willard often visited Doctor Reefy in her middle age. Together, they would discuss their lives and people in town. They became friends and almost became lovers. She told him about her life and when she spoke, she seemed like a younger woman, not the old, worn out woman she had become. When she tried to commun...	[ "DEATH", "The stairway leading up to Doctor Reefy's office, in\nthe Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods store, was\nbut dimly lighted. At the head of the stairway hung a\nlamp with a dirty chimney that was fastened by a\nbracket to the wall. The lamp had a tin reflector,\nbrown with rust and covered with dust...
595	416_departure	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	George Willard leaves Winesburg to go make his way in the big city. Several people see him off at the station, but Helen White is too late to wish him farewell. He thinks of mundane things as he waits for the train to pull out of the station. The conductor, who has seen many young men starting off on this journey, says...	[ "DEPARTURE", "Young George Willard got out of bed at four in the\nmorning. It was April and the young tree leaves were\njust coming out of their buds. The trees along the\nresidence streets in Winesburg are maple and the seeds\nare winged. When the wind blows they whirl crazily\nabout, filling the air and making ...
592	416_drink	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tom Foster moved to Winesburg with his grandmother as a teenager. She cleans Banker White's house. Tom used to be the stable boy at the Whites' house, but because he is rather dreamy and irresponsible, he lost that position. Now, he does odd jobs and is quite happy. His grandmother comes regularly to clean his rented r...	[ "DRINK", "Tom Foster came to Winesburg from Cincinnati when he\nwas still young and could get many new impressions. His\ngrandmother had been raised on a farm near the town and\nas a young girl had gone to school there when Winesburg\nwas a village of twelve or fifteen houses clustered\nabout a general store on t...
580	416_godliness	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Godliness I . This is the first in a four-part story. Jesse Bentley was born sensitive in a family of rough farmers. He went off to study for the ministry and married an equally delicate woman. When all his four older brothers died in the Civil War, he came home to run the farm. Although he was sensitive, there was a s...	[ "GODLINESS", "A Tale in Four Parts", "There were always three or four old people sitting on\nthe front porch of the house or puttering about the\ngarden of the Bentley farm. Three of the old people\nwere women and sisters to Jesse. They were a colorless,\nsoft voiced lot. Then there was a silent old man with\nt...
575	416_hands	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wing Biddlebaum, a forty-year-old man, lives on the outskirts of Winesburg and has little involvement in the community in which he has lived for twenty years. Wing is the kind of man who talks a lot with his hands. He has "slender expressive fingers, forever active," and his natural tendency is to gesticulate a lot as ...	[ "HANDS", "Upon the half decayed veranda of a small frame house\nthat stood near the edge of a ravine near the town of\nWinesburg, Ohio, a fat little old man walked nervously\nup and down. Across a long field that had been seeded\nfor clover but that had produced only a dense crop of\nyellow mustard weeds, he coul...
588	416_loneliness	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Enoch Robinson is a childish man who seems crazy. He grew up on a farm near Winesburg, and he used to want to be an artist. When he was twenty-one he went to live in New York City, where he remained for fifteen years. There, he made friends who were artists, and they came to visit him in his little rented room. They ta...	[ "LONELINESS", "He was the son of Mrs. Al Robinson who once owned a\nfarm on a side road leading off Trunion Pike, east of\nWinesburg and two miles beyond the town limits. The\nfarmhouse was painted brown and the blinds to all of\nthe windows facing the road were kept closed. In the\nroad before the house a flock ...
577	416_mother	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Elizabeth Willard owns the Winesburg hotel, which she inherited from her parents. Her husband, Tom, runs the shabby, unnprofitable hotel and behaves as though he is a very important man. He has a dream that one day he will become a Congressman or even governor. Elizabeth, on the other hand, has faded away and does not ...	[ "MOTHER", "Elizabeth Willard, the mother of George Willard, was tall and gaunt and her face was marked with smallpox scars. Although she was but forty-five, some obscure disease had taken the fire out of her figure. Listlessly she went about the disorderly old hotel looking at the faded wall-paper and the ragged ...
576	416_paper_pills	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Doctor Reefy, an old man with a white beard, once had a wife, but she died young. Now he lives alone and has become eccentric; he has worn one suit of clothes for ten years, which is now frayed at the sleeves and has holes at the knees and elbows. He has only one friend in the town, another old man. Doctor Reefy met hi...	[ "PAPER PILLS", "He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and\nhands. Long before the time during which we will know\nhim, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from\nhouse to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later\nhe married a girl who had money. She had been left a\nlarge fertile farm w...
590	416_queer	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Elmer Cowley is the son of Ebenezer Cowley, a farmer who sold his farm a year ago and became a storekeeper. Ebenezer is not much of a merchant, as he just buys up a jumble of things that cannot really be sold. One time, Elmer threatens a merchant who tries to sell them an item they will never be able to sell again. He ...	[ "\"QUEER\"", "From his seat on a box in the rough board shed that\nstuck like a burr on the rear of Cowley & Son's store\nin Winesburg, Elmer Cowley, the junior member of the\nfirm, could see through a dirty window into the\nprintshop of the Winesburg Eagle. Elmer was putting new\nshoelaces in his shoes. They did...
594	416_sophistication	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	George Willard is thinking of Helen White on the day of the county fair, and she is thinking of George, even though she is stuck with a college instructor of hers who has come to town for the day. In the evening, her mother insinuates that this instructor would be a good match for Helen and keeps the two talking on the...	[ "SOPHISTICATION", "It was early evening of a day in the late fall and the\nWinesburg County Fair had brought crowds of country\npeople into town. The day had been clear and the night\ncame on warm and pleasant. On the Trunion Pike, where\nthe road after it left town stretched away between\nberry fields now covere...
574	416_the_book_of_the_grotesque	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	An old writer has a bed that his carpenter raised up so the writer can see out the window. Unfortunately, it is now difficult for him to get in and out of the bed. From this bed, he dreams "a dream that was not a dream" in which all the people has had ever known pass before his eyes. These figures are grotesques. From...	[ "THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE", "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some\ndifficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the\nhouse in which he lived were high and he wanted to look\nat the trees when he awoke in the morning. A carpenter\ncame to fix the bed so that it would be on a level with\nthe wi...
591	416_the_untold_lie	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ray Pearson, an older farmhand, is a quiet man. He is married to a shrewish woman whom he had to marry after he got her pregnant many years ago. They have six children. His colleague, Hal Winters, is a young, boisterous man who has gotten his girlfriend pregnant. One day in October, when they are working together in a ...	[ "THE UNTOLD LIE", "Ray Pearson and Hal Winters were farm hands employed on\na farm three miles north of Winesburg. On Saturday\nafternoons they came into town and wandered about\nthrough the streets with other fellows from the\ncountry.", "Ray was a quiet, rather nervous man of perhaps fifty\nwith a brown beard...
596	514_part_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Playing Pilgrims I'll try and be what he loves to call me, "a little woman," and not be rough and wild; but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else. One December evening in the mid-nineteenth century, the March girls--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--sit at home, bewailing their poverty. The March family used to...	[ "\"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,\" grumbled Jo, lying\non the rug.", "\"It's so dreadful to be poor!\" sighed Meg, looking down at her old\ndress.", "\"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty\nthings, and other girls nothing at all,\" added little Amy, with an\ninjur...
597	514_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Merry Christmas On Christmas morning, the girls wake to find books under their pillows. Jo and Meg go downstairs to find Marmee, but the family servant, Hannah, tells her that Marmee has gone to aid poor neighbors. When Marmee returns, she asks her daughters to give their delicious Christmas breakfast to the starving...	[ "Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No\nstockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much\ndisappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down\nbecause it was crammed so full of goodies. Then she remembered her\nmother's promise and, slipping her hand unde...
598	514_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Laurence Boy Jo reads in the attic with her pet rat, Scrabble, while eating apples. Meg comes to her and tells her that the two of them have been invited to a New Year's Eve party at the home of Meg's friend, Sallie Gardiner. Meg is very excited, but does not know what to wear. Unlike Meg, Jo is not particularly ex...	[ "\"Jo! Jo! Where are you?\" cried Meg at the foot of the garret stairs.", "\"Here!\" answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found\nher sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped\nup in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.\nThis was Jo's favorite ...
599	514_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Burdens After the holiday festivities, the girls find going back to their jobs difficult. Meg does not want to look after the King children, whom she baby-sits, and Jo is reluctant to tend to Aunt March, for Aunt March makes Jo read boring books aloud. Though Aunt March is strict with Jo, Jo does like her; both women a...	[ "\"Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on,\"\nsighed Meg the morning after the party, for now the holidays were over,\nthe week of merrymaking did not fit her for going on easily with the\ntask she never liked.", "\"I wish it was Christmas or New Year's all the time. Wouldn't it be\nfun?\"...
600	514_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Being Neighborly One winter afternoon, Jo goes outside to shovel a path in the snow. While she is outside, she sees Laurie in a window. She throws a snowball at the window to get his attention. Laurie leans out and tells Jo that he has been ill. Feeling sorry for him, Jo says she will go keep him company if it is all r...	[ "\"What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?\" asked Meg one snowy\nafternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber\nboots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the\nother.", "\"Going out for exercise,\" answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her\neyes.", "\"I ...
601	514_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful The March girls start spending time at the Laurences' house. Meg loves to walk in the greenhouse there, and Amy loves to look at the artwork. Beth loves Mr. Laurence's piano, but she is still afraid of him; she will not venture far inside the house. Mr. Laurence learns of Beth's fears an...	[ "The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time\nfor all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old\nMr. Laurence was the biggest one, but after he had called, said\nsomething funny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over old\ntimes with their mother, nobody felt ...
602	514_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Amy's Valley of Humiliation At Amy's school, the girls trade pickled limes, a fashionable treat at that time. Amy is worried because she has been given many limes but doesn't have the money to buy limes for her friends in return. Taking pity on her little sister, Meg gives Amy money to buy some limes. Amy tells her ene...	[ "\"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?\" said Amy one day, as Laurie\nclattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.", "\"How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome\nones they are, too,\" cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about\nher friend.", "\"I ...
603	514_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo Meets Apollyon I am angry nearly every day of my life. Jo and Meg are going to a play with Laurie, and Amy wants to go too. Jo tells her, a bit harshly, that she cannot go because she was not invited. Angered, Amy tells Jo that Jo will be sorry. During the play, Jo feels some remorse for her bad treatment of her lit...	[ "\"Girls, where are you going?\" asked Amy, coming into their room one\nSaturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out with an\nair of secrecy which excited her curiosity.", "\"Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,\" returned Jo\nsharply.", "Now if there is anything mortifying to our ...
604	514_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meg Goes to Vanity Fair I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace. Meg has plans to stay with Annie Moffat, a wealthy friend. She packs all of her nicest clothes, but wishes she had more splendid attire. The Moffats are very fashio...	[ "\"I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those\nchildren should have the measles just now,\" said Meg, one April day, as\nshe stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her\nsisters.", "\"And so nice of Annie Moffat not to forget her promise. A whole\nfortnight of fun ...
605	514_part_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The P. C. and P. O. In the spring, the girls take to gardening. They also hold meetings of the Pickwick Club, a society for arts and letters modeled on an all-male society in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers. The sisters produce a newsletter each week, with advertisements, poems, and stories. At one meeting,...	[ "As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the\nlengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. The garden had to be put in order, and each sister had a quarter of the\nlittle plot to do what she liked with. Hannah used to say, \"I'd know\nwhich each of them gardings b...
606	514_part_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Experiments During the summer, the King family, for whom Meg is the governess, and Aunt March go on vacation, leaving Meg and Jo free from their duties. Relieved, Meg and Jo decide to do nothing at all with their newfound freedom. The younger girls, Amy and Beth, also take a break from their studies. After the girls ne...	[ "\"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and\nI'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!\" exclaimed\nMeg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an\nunusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and\nAmy made lemonade for the refreshmen...
607	514_part_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Camp Laurence One July day, Meg receives one glove in the postbox, though she has lost them both and wonders where its mate is. With the glove comes a German song translated by Mr. Brooke, Laurie's tutor. Laurie has also sent an invitation to a picnic to be held the next day. The following day, the March girls attend t...	[ "Beth was postmistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it\nregularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door\nand distributing the mail. One July day she came in with her hands\nfull, and went about the house leaving letters and parcels like the\npenny post.", "\"Here's your p...
608	514_part_1,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Castles in the Air I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream. Laurie swings idly on his hammock and spies the March girls walking out to a hill. There, the sisters sit working--knitting, sewing, drawing, and reading. Feeling left out, Laurie asks if he may jo...	[ "Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm\nSeptember afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too\nlazy to go and find out. He was in one of his moods, for the day had\nbeen both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could\nlive it over again. The hot weathe...
609	514_part_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Secrets Jo finishes the manuscripts for two stories and brings them to a newspaperman in town without telling anyone. She is very anxious. She meets Laurie as she comes out of the news office. After he pleads with her to tell him what is going on, she confides her secret. Laurie then tells Jo his secret--that Mr. Brook...	[ "Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow\nchilly, and the afternoons were short. For two or three hours the sun\nlay warmly in the high window, showing Jo seated on the old sofa,\nwriting busily, with her papers spread out upon a trunk before her,\nwhile Scrabble, the pet rat, promenaded...
610	514_part_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Telegram November arrives, and everyone is glum. Marmee receives a telegram saying that Mr. March is ill and that she must go to Washington, D. C. to be with him. Marmee sends Laurie to ask Aunt March for money and sends Beth to ask Mr. Laurence for wine. In the spirit of the moment, Jo runs out to find a way to con...	[ "\"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,\" said\nMargaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the\nfrostbitten garden.", "\"That's the reason I was born in it,\" observed Jo pensively, quite\nunconscious of the blot on her nose.", "\"If something very pleasant should ...
611	514_part_1,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Letters Marmee departs, and the girls communicate with her by letter. The girls write letters in their own ways: Meg writes of everyday events in a refined way; Jo writes impassioned letters with slang and silly poems; Beth sends simple notes of love; and Amy strives for sophistication but ends up discussing trivialiti...	[ "In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp and read their chapter\nwith an earnestness never felt before. For now the shadow of a real\ntrouble had come, the little books were full of help and comfort, and\nas they dressed, they agreed to say goodbye cheerfully and hopefully,\nand send their mother on her a...
612	514_part_1,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Little Faithful For a while, the girls are extremely diligent in their work, but they soon grow lazy again. Marmee had asked her daughters to visit the Hummels every day, but Beth is the only one who has done so. One day, Beth asks that another sister take a turn visiting the Hummels, but her sisters, wrapped up in the...	[ "For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied\nthe neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a\nheavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved\nof their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed\ntheir praiseworthy efforts a lit...
613	514_part_1,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dark Days Beth is much more seriously ill than anyone supposed. After a while, the family decides that Marmee must be sent for, just in case something dreadful happens. Jo breaks down in front of Laurie, saying that she does not want Beth to die. Laurie admits that he telegraphed for Marmee the day before and that she ...	[ "Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than anyone but Hannah and\nthe doctor suspected. The girls knew nothing about illness, and Mr.\nLaurence was not allowed to see her, so Hannah had everything her own\nway, and busy Dr. Bangs did his best, but left a good deal to the\nexcellent nurse. Meg stayed at ho...
614	514_part_1,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Amy's Will During Beth's illness, Amy has a hard time living with Aunt March. Though Aunt March likes Amy, she makes her niece work very hard. For consolation, Amy turns to the servant, Esther, who tells her stories and plays with her among Aunt March's old dresses and jewelry. After a while, Esther tells Amy that she ...	[ "While these things were happening at home, Amy was having hard times at\nAunt March's. She felt her exile deeply, and for the first time in her\nlife, realized how much she was beloved and petted at home. Aunt March\nnever petted any one; she did not approve of it, but she meant to be\nkind, for the well-behaved l...
615	514_part_1,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Confidential Marmee watches carefully over Beth, while Laurie goes to Aunt March's to tell Amy of Beth's recovery. Later, Marmee also comes to visit Amy. Amy shows her the chapel, which Marmee approves of as a place for quiet reflection. Amy also asks Marmee if she may wear the turquoise ring that Aunt March has now g...	[ "I don't think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the\nmother and daughters. Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard\nto describe, so I will leave it to the imagination of my readers,\nmerely saying that the house was full of genuine happiness, and that\nMeg's tender hope was realized, for wh...
616	514_part_1,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Laurie Makes Mischief, and Jo Makes Peace Jo has trouble keeping secret the potential courtship between Meg and Mr. Brooke. Laurie tries to get the secret out of Jo and grows annoyed when he cannot. In the meantime, Meg receives a letter allegedly from Mr. Brooke declaring his love. She answers it before Jo gets a chan...	[ "Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her,\nand she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg\nobserved it, but did not trouble herself to make inquiries, for she had\nlearned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so\nshe felt sure of being told ev...
617	514_part_1,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Pleasant Meadows Christmas arrives and everyone is very merry. Laurie and Jo make a snowwoman for Beth, and everyone else gets lovely presents too. The Laurences and Mr. Brooke surprise the family by bringing Mr. March home for Christmas. They have a very joyful time, and Mr. March tells the girls how much each of them...	[ "Like sunshine after a storm were the peaceful weeks which followed.\nThe invalids improved rapidly, and Mr. March began to talk of returning\nearly in the new year. Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all\nday, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time\nwith doll's sewing, which had...
618	514_part_1,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Aunt March Settles the Question Meg becomes nervous and blushes whenever Mr. Brooke is mentioned. Her parents think that she is too young to be married, and in order to follow their wishes, she prepares a speech of rejection in case he makes advances. When Mr. Brooke comes over, she softens somewhat in his presence. N...	[ "Like bees swarming after their queen, mother and daughters hovered\nabout Mr. March the next day, neglecting everything to look at, wait\nupon, and listen to the new invalid, who was in a fair way to be killed\nby kindness. As he sat propped up in a big chair by Beth's sofa, with\nthe other three close by, and Ha...
619	514_part_2,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gossip This chapter, the first in Part Two of the novel, opens after three years have passed. Meg is about to get married. The war has ended, and Mr. March has returned home. Mr. Brooke has gone to war too, and has returned with only a minor injury. In the meantime, Meg has learned more about keeping house, and Amy has...	[ "In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding with free\nminds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.\nAnd here let me premise that if any of the elders think there is too\nmuch 'lovering' in the story, as I fear they may (I'm not afraid the\nyoung folks will make that object...
620	514_part_2,_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The First Wedding Meg's wedding is casual and small. In their summer dresses, all of the March girls look beautiful and slightly different from how they appeared three years ago: Jo is a bit softened, Amy is gorgeous, and Beth is pale and fragile but good-spirited. The wedding goes smoothly. When Laurie asks what happe...	[ "The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that\nmorning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine,\nlike friendly little neighbors, as they were. Quite flushed with\nexcitement were their ruddy faces, as they swung in the wind,\nwhispering to one another what they had seen, for...
621	514_part_2,_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Artistic Attempts Amy spends much time working on her art. Though she is not a genius, she has passion. At the end of one of her art classes, she asks Marmee if she can invite her girlfriends over for a luncheon and an afternoon of sketching. She wants to make the party elaborate and lovely, and she offers to pay for a...	[ "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and\ngenius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning\nthis distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for\ninspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity. For a long time there was a lul...
622	514_part_2,_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Literary Lessons Jo continues to write. Then, one night, she goes to a lecture on pyramids. While she is waiting for the lecture to begin, a boy shows her a newspaper. It has a sensationalist story that Jo finds silly. She sees that the newspaper is offering a one hundred dollar prize for the best sensationalist story....	[ "Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good luck penny in her\npath. Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would\nhave given more real happiness then did the little sum that came to her\nin this wise.", "Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her\nscribbling s...
623	514_part_2,_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Domestic Experiences Meg learns to tend house and be a good wife. She and Mr. Brooke must be careful with money because they are poor. One day, Meg tries to make jelly, which turns out to be a miserable failure. That night, John brings home unexpected company. Meg gets angry at his insensitivity, even though she has t...	[ "Like most other young matrons, Meg began her married life with the\ndetermination to be a model housekeeper. John should find home a\nparadise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously\nevery day, and never know the loss of a button. She brought so much\nlove, energy, and cheerfulness to the ...
624	514_part_2,_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Calls Amy and Jo go out visiting, and Amy makes Jo dress up and behave nicely. At the first house, Amy reprimands Jo for being too reserved and for hardly speaking at all. To tease her sister, Jo imitates a social butterfly named May Chester at the second house they visit. Amy grows even more mortified as Jo reveals se...	[ "\"Come, Jo, it's time.\"", "\"For what?\"", "\"You don't mean to say you have forgotten that you promised to make\nhalf a dozen calls with me today?\"", "\"I've done a good many rash and foolish things in my life, but I don't\nthink I ever was mad enough to say I'd make six calls in one day, when\na single o...
625	514_part_2,_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Consequences Amy is to work at the art table at the Chesters' upcoming fair. She works hard to put the display together. The night before the fair, Mrs. Chester hears how the March girls insulted her daughter, May, and tells Amy that she should work at the flower table instead, while May will work at the art table. Amy...	[ "Mrs. Chester's fair was so very elegant and select that it was\nconsidered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be\ninvited to take a table, and everyone was much interested in the\nmatter. Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fortunate for all\nparties, as her elbows were decidedly akimbo...
626	514_part_2,_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Our Foreign Correspondent Amy sends several letters from Europe, detailing her romps through England, France, Germany, and Switzerland. She says that she is trying to absorb every beautiful attraction. Along the way, she runs into Fred and Frank Vaughn, Laurie's English friends. She and Florence, Aunt Carrol's daughter...	[ "Dearest People, Here I really sit at a front window of the Bath Hotel,\nPiccadilly. It's not a fashionable place, but Uncle stopped here years\nago, and won't go anywhere else. However, we don't mean to stay long,\nso it's no great matter. Oh, I can't begin to tell you how I enjoy it\nall! I never can, so I'll...
627	514_part_2,_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tender Troubles Marmee asks Jo to find out if something is troubling Beth, for Beth's spirits seem low. After thinking, Jo concludes that Beth might be in love with Laurie, but Jo is afraid that Laurie is in love Jo herself. Jo asks her mother if she might go away for a while in an attempt to broaden her horizons and t...	[ "\"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.\"", "\"Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.\"", "\"It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure\nthere is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is.\"", "\"What makes you think so, Mother?\"", "\"She sits ...
628	514_part_2,_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo's Journal Jo sends letters from New York. She reports that the children are fine and that she is enjoying her little room in the big boarding house. She also writes about another boarder, a German professor named Frederick Bhaer. Professor Bhaer does not have much money, and tutors children in order to make a livin...	[ "New York, November", "Dear Marmee and Beth,", "I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got heaps to tell,\nthough I'm not a fine young lady traveling on the continent. When I\nlost sight of Father's dear old face, I felt a trifle blue, and might\nhave shed a briny drop or two, if an Irish lady with f...
629	514_part_2,_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Friend In New York, Jo begins to write sensationalist stories for a publication called the "Weekly Volcano. She is not proud of these stories, as they are not moral or profound in any way. They do, however, provide her with a lot of money. Later, she witnesses Mr. Bhaer defending religion in a philosophical conversatio...	[ "Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy\nwith the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the\neffort, Jo still found time for literary labors. The purpose which now\ntook possession of her was a natural one to a poor and ambitious girl,\nbut the means she took to gain...
630	514_part_2,_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heartache All of the Marches except Amy go to see Laurie graduate from college. He has done well there, having spent the last year working hard, probably to impress Jo. When he returns home, he finally confesses his love to Jo. She tries to stop him from speaking his mind, but he insists on telling her how he feels. Sh...	[ "Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose\nthat year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with\nthe grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his\nfriends said. They were all there, his grandfather--oh, so proud--Mr.\nand Mrs. March, John and Meg, Jo ...
631	514_part_2,_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Beth's Secret Coming home from New York, Jo has been surprised to find Beth even paler and thinner than before. She proposes to take Beth to the mountains with the money that she has earned. Beth says that she does not want to go so far and asks to go to the seashore again instead. When they are on holiday, Beth confes...	[ "When Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in\nBeth. No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too\ngradually to startle those who saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by\nabsence, it was very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she\nsaw her sister's face. It was...
632	514_part_2,_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	New Impressions Laurie meets up with Amy in Nice, in southern France, on Christmas. They each find that the other has changed quite a bit. Laurie notes that Amy has grown into a sophisticated and lovely young woman. Amy sees that Laurie is more somber, but she also starts to see him as a handsome gentleman instead of a...	[ "At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice\nmay be seen on the Promenade des Anglais--a charming place, for the\nwide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is\nbounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined\nwith hotels and villas, while beyond l...
633	514_part_2,_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the Shelf Meg is spending so much time taking care of her babies that she rarely spends time with Mr. Brooke. After half a year of this behavior, he takes to going over to a friend's house at night. When he begins to spend less time with the children, Meg is saddened by his absence. Marmee figures out what the troub...	[ "In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married,\nwhen 'Vive la liberte!' becomes their motto. In America, as everyone\nknows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy\ntheir freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually\nabdicate with the first heir to the ...
634	514_part_2,_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lazy Laurence Although Laurie originally intends to spend a week in Nice, he ends up staying for a month in order to enjoy Amy's company. While he is there, Amy becomes more and more distressed at his laziness and bad humor. One day, they go for a drive to a scenic hilltop villa so that Amy can sketch. While there, Amy...	[ "Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month. He\nwas tired of wandering about alone, and Amy's familiar presence seemed\nto give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a\npart. He rather missed the 'petting' he used to receive, and enjoyed a\ntaste of it again, for no atten...
635	514_part_2,_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Valley of the Shadow Because of Beth's failing health, the family sets up a lovely room for her. In it they place her piano, Amy's sketches, and other beautiful things. Meg also brings the babies over to brighten Beth's days. As time passes, Beth gets weaker, but she is not afraid of death. Jo writes a poem about a...	[ "When the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable,\nand tried to bear it cheerfully, helping one another by the increased\naffection which comes to bind households tenderly together in times of\ntrouble. They put away their grief, and each did his or her part\ntoward making that last year a h...
636	514_part_2,_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Learning to Forget Laurie is more active when he returns to Switzerland. He spends some time in Austria working on a requiem and an opera. He tries to make Jo his heroine, but she seems ill fit to be his artistic muse, or inspiration, so he begins to imagine a blonde damsel, although he does not name her. Laurie also b...	[ "Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it\ntill long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers,\nthe lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded\nthemselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act\nupon it, and, if it succeeds, they g...
637	514_part_2,_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	All Alone Jo grows lonely at home, although she tries to make life easier for Marmee, Mr. March, and Hannah. One day, she confides to her father how much she misses Beth. Word arrives that Amy and Laurie are engaged, and Marmee is worried about how Jo will take the news. Jo is calm, though, and pleased that they are in...	[ "It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in\nanother, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example. But when\nthe helpful voice was silent, the daily lesson over, the beloved\npresence gone, and nothing remained but loneliness and grief, then Jo\nfound her promise very hard to keep. H...
638	514_part_2,_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Surprises Laurie comes into the house, surprising Jo. He tells her that he and Amy have married so that they could come home together without a chaperone. He tells Jo that she was right about her being unsuitable for him, and that he is happy to have Amy as his wife and Jo as his sister. With Amy, Laurie, and Mr. Laure...	[ "Jo was alone in the twilight, lying on the old sofa, looking at the\nfire, and thinking. It was her favorite way of spending the hour of\ndusk. No one disturbed her, and she used to lie there on Beth's little\nred pillow, planning stories, dreaming dreams, or thinking tender\nthoughts of the sister who never see...
639	514_part_2,_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My Lord and Lady Amy and Laurie display their happiness at every moment, relishing each other's company. They discuss Mr. Bhaer, whom they think Jo will marry, and decide that they want to help the impoverished Bhaer financially. They also discuss the kind of philanthropy that they would like to practice, and conclude ...	[ "\"Please, Madam Mother, could you lend me my wife for half an hour? The\nluggage has come, and I've been making hay of Amy's Paris finery,\ntrying to find some things I want,\" said Laurie, coming in the next day\nto find Mrs. Laurence sitting in her mother's lap, as if being made\n'the baby' again.", "\"Certai...
640	514_part_2,_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Daisy and Demi Demi is interested in mechanics and philosophy, although he is only three. His grandfather adores him. Daisy adores Demi too, and allows herself to be dominated by him. She loves to help Hannah make food and keep house. Both children love to play with Jo, whom they call Aunt Dodo. She plays with them les...	[ "I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March\nfamily, without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious\nand important members of it. Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years\nof discretion, for in this fast age babies of three or four assert\ntheir rights, and get them, too,...
641	514_part_2,_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Under the Umbrella After much visiting, Bhaer stays away for three days. Jo heads out one day to run some errands, hoping to run into him. Just as rain begins to fall, she bumps into him, and he then covers her with his umbrella as they do some shopping together. He tells her that he has finished his business in town. ...	[ "While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets,\nas they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr.\nBhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy\nroads and sodden fields.", "\"I always do take a walk toward evening, and I don't know why I should...
642	514_part_2,_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Harvest Time Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this. Jo and Bhaer spend a year apart, pining for each other. Aunt March then dies unexpectedly, leaving her house, Plumfield, to Jo. Jo decides to turn it into a school for rich and poor boys alike. The family decides t...	[ "For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met\noccasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the\nprice of paper was accounted for, Laurie said. The second year began\nrather soberly, for their prospects did not brighten, and Aunt March\ndied suddenly. But when their ...
596	514_part_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The story opens in the home of the March family. The four March daughters Meg , Jo , Beth , and the youngest Amy are complaining about not having money to buy Christmas presents. Their father is away fighting in the civil war and the family does not have much money. The girls each received a dollar to buy themselves so...	[ "\"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,\" grumbled Jo, lying\non the rug.", "\"It's so dreadful to be poor!\" sighed Meg, looking down at her old\ndress.", "\"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty\nthings, and other girls nothing at all,\" added little Amy, with an\ninjur...
597	514_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	They awoke Christmas morning excited. Under their pillows, they each found matching books from Marmee, and they went down stairs to wait for breakfast. Marmee came home and told them of the charity work she was doing with a food less family, and the girl decided to forgo their Christmas breakfast, and donate it to the ...	[ "Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No\nstockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much\ndisappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down\nbecause it was crammed so full of goodies. Then she remembered her\nmother's promise and, slipping her hand unde...
598	514_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meg and Jo were invited to a dance and party at the Gardiner's house. They fussed over what they had to wear, and Meg went over rules of propriety with tomboy, Jo. The curling tongs burned Meg's hair, but the girls went to the party anyway. Meg proceeded to dance and to socialize, while Jo stood next to the wall. When ...	[ "\"Jo! Jo! Where are you?\" cried Meg at the foot of the garret stairs.", "\"Here!\" answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found\nher sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped\nup in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.\nThis was Jo's favorite ...
599	514_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. March lost most of his wealth trying to help one of his friends, and to help support themselves and their family, Meg and Jo got jobs. Meg got a job in the King household taking care of the children, and Jo got a job being the companion to their rich Aunt March. Since Beth was so shy she did not do well in school, ...	[ "\"Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on,\"\nsighed Meg the morning after the party, for now the holidays were over,\nthe week of merrymaking did not fit her for going on easily with the\ntask she never liked.", "\"I wish it was Christmas or New Year's all the time. Wouldn't it be\nfun?\"...
600	514_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo decides to go out for exercise one day, intent on running into the Lawrence Boy, Laurie. Looking up into his window, she realizes he has been sick and throws a snowball at his window to get his attention. He opens it and they begin talking. Realizing that he has been lonely, Jo offers to come over and keep him compa...	[ "\"What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?\" asked Meg one snowy\nafternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber\nboots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the\nother.", "\"Going out for exercise,\" answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her\neyes.", "\"I ...
601	514_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The March girls began going over to the Lawrence household and Laurie would come over and visit them. Beth however was too timid and scared of old Mr. Lawrence that she would not set food in the household. Mr. Lawrence found out about this and endeavored to set it right. He visited the March household and said that any...	[ "The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time\nfor all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old\nMr. Laurence was the biggest one, but after he had called, said\nsomething funny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over old\ntimes with their mother, nobody felt ...
602	514_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While out one afternoon with her sisters, Amy laments about being poor to her sisters and they ask her why. She tells them that it is fashionable at her school for girls to share and give away limes to other girls. She so far, has excepted these gifts, but has not been able to return the favor. Meg gives her a quarter ...	[ "\"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?\" said Amy one day, as Laurie\nclattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.", "\"How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome\nones they are, too,\" cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about\nher friend.", "\"I ...
603	514_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meg and Jo are leaving to go to the theater one afternoon with Laurie, when Amy realizes where they are going and decides she wants to go too. She begs and pleads but Jo gets very cross and tells her that she was not invited therefor she cannot go. Amy throws a fit and promises to make Jo pay for being so mean, and thi...	[ "\"Girls, where are you going?\" asked Amy, coming into their room one\nSaturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out with an\nair of secrecy which excited her curiosity.", "\"Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,\" returned Jo\nsharply.", "Now if there is anything mortifying to our ...
604	514_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Kings children fall ill, so they give Meg a holiday. She is invited to stay with the Moffat family for that time for they are throwing a bunch of festivities for their children and their children's friends. Meg is delighted, and Marmee says she may attend. She gathers up her finest things, and her sisters lend her ...	[ "\"I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those\nchildren should have the measles just now,\" said Meg, one April day, as\nshe stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her\nsisters.", "\"And so nice of Annie Moffat not to forget her promise. A whole\nfortnight of fun ...
605	514_part_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As warmer weather approached the sisters decided to make a secret club, the Pickwick Club , and become members under different names. Meg, since she was the oldest, was the president of the club, and every week they published a newspaper each with their own contributions. One such week, Meg read the paper, and Jo propo...	[ "As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the\nlengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. The garden had to be put in order, and each sister had a quarter of the\nlittle plot to do what she liked with. Hannah used to say, \"I'd know\nwhich each of them gardings b...
606	514_part_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first of June rolled around, and the family Meg worked for took a holiday for a few months. Happy to be able to have some leisure time, the March sisters decided to have an experiment. They that they would all spend a week doing no work whatsoever. Mrs. March consented to the plan hoping to teach her daughters a le...	[ "\"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and\nI'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!\" exclaimed\nMeg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an\nunusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and\nAmy made lemonade for the refreshmen...
607	514_part_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Beth had the job of delivering the mail from the post office and one day she came in with the usual nosegay for Marmee from Laurie and a single gray glove for Meg along with a translation. Disappointed that the other glove could not be found, Meg was happy with the German song Laurie's tutor, Mr. Brooke sent. Jo receiv...	[ "Beth was postmistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it\nregularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door\nand distributing the mail. One July day she came in with her hands\nfull, and went about the house leaving letters and parcels like the\npenny post.", "\"Here's your p...
609	514_part_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo is writing frantically at her writing table when she declares to herself that she has done her best and leaves the house. She walks down to the town newspaper office, and frets outside about whether or not to enter. Finally she summons the courage and goes in, not knowing that across the street Laurie was watching f...	[ "Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow\nchilly, and the afternoons were short. For two or three hours the sun\nlay warmly in the high window, showing Jo seated on the old sofa,\nwriting busily, with her papers spread out upon a trunk before her,\nwhile Scrabble, the pet rat, promenaded...
610	514_part_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	November comes and the March sisters, Marmee, and Laurie are in the parlor when a telegram arrives. Marmee opens to find a message saying Father was extremely ill, and her presence was requested immediately. Everyone cries, and then jumps to action. Marmee decides to take the train the next morning, and sends Laurie to...	[ "\"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,\" said\nMargaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the\nfrostbitten garden.", "\"That's the reason I was born in it,\" observed Jo pensively, quite\nunconscious of the blot on her nose.", "\"If something very pleasant should ...
611	514_part_1,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Marmee and Mr. Brooke left the next morning for Washington D. C. and for the next week, they wrote letters back and forth between the girls and their mother. Father was recovering, and Meg having to take over the position in the head of the household, was doing well. Jo sent a straightforward letter describing her life...	[ "In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp and read their chapter\nwith an earnestness never felt before. For now the shadow of a real\ntrouble had come, the little books were full of help and comfort, and\nas they dressed, they agreed to say goodbye cheerfully and hopefully,\nand send their mother on her a...
612	514_part_1,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Everyone had spent the first week of Marmee's absence being perfect angels, but after that, things began falling apart. Jo caught a cold, and Aunt March told her to go home until it was better. Meg sewed most of the day, but did not get much done because her mind was other places. Beth came in one afternoon when Meg wa...	[ "For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied\nthe neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a\nheavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved\nof their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed\ntheir praiseworthy efforts a lit...
613	514_part_1,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The March house was grave as Beth's illness continued. The doctor came everyday to check on her while Hannah and Jo kept watch over and nursed her. Beth was Jo's pet and Jo was devastated by the potential loss of her. Everyone who knew her was asking how she was doing and no one had known Beth had so many people as fri...	[ "Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than anyone but Hannah and\nthe doctor suspected. The girls knew nothing about illness, and Mr.\nLaurence was not allowed to see her, so Hannah had everything her own\nway, and busy Dr. Bangs did his best, but left a good deal to the\nexcellent nurse. Meg stayed at ho...
620	514_part_2,_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meg and John Brooke have their wedding day, and it is a highly unfashionable wedding but no one cares. Everyone has grown up. Meg is beautiful, Jo holds her tongue, Beth is fragile, and Amy is the epitome of grace. Mr. March performs the wedding service, and Meg sewed her own dress. After the wedding, Laurie goes up to...	[ "The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that\nmorning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine,\nlike friendly little neighbors, as they were. Quite flushed with\nexcitement were their ruddy faces, as they swung in the wind,\nwhispering to one another what they had seen, for...
621	514_part_2,_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the conclusion of her writing class, Amy decides to throw a party for her and the other girls. Marmee advises her against it because the other girls are rich and she is afraid that Amy will be disappointed. Amy employs the whole family to help her, and after the first day they plan is rained out, they prepare for th...	[ "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and\ngenius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning\nthis distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for\ninspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity. For a long time there was a lul...
622	514_part_2,_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo went to a lecture to hear a speaker, and while there, a boy gives her a story to read. Jo does not think it has that good of a plot, but the boy tells her that the stories are very popular. Jo sees a contest in the paper, and submits her own story for it. She keeps the entry a secret and six weeks later she receives...	[ "Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good luck penny in her\npath. Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would\nhave given more real happiness then did the little sum that came to her\nin this wise.", "Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her\nscribbling s...
623	514_part_2,_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meg tried to be the perfect housewife for John. She told him that anytime he wanted to bring a colleague home for dinner, that she would not mind, even if he gave her no notice. One summer day Meg slaved over making jelly, but whatever she did, it would not jell. John, not knowing of her troubles, decided to bring his ...	[ "Like most other young matrons, Meg began her married life with the\ndetermination to be a model housekeeper. John should find home a\nparadise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously\nevery day, and never know the loss of a button. She brought so much\nlove, energy, and cheerfulness to the ...
624	514_part_2,_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Amy has conned Jo into going calling with her and made her put on her nicest clothes. Jo was less than enthusiastic but agreed to be on her best behavior. They first went to the Chester's and Jo acted the lady, but would not answer any questions except with yes and no. The Chester's thought she was dry and unresponsive...	[ "\"Come, Jo, it's time.\"", "\"For what?\"", "\"You don't mean to say you have forgotten that you promised to make\nhalf a dozen calls with me today?\"", "\"I've done a good many rash and foolish things in my life, but I don't\nthink I ever was mad enough to say I'd make six calls in one day, when\na single o...
625	514_part_2,_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Chester's had asked Amy to run a table at the fair they were throwing and Amy was extremely happy about it. While she was setting up the day before the fair however, Mrs. Chester approached her. She said that the table Amy was running should really go to her daughter. Amy was disappointed, and knew that May, Mrs. C...	[ "Mrs. Chester's fair was so very elegant and select that it was\nconsidered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be\ninvited to take a table, and everyone was much interested in the\nmatter. Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fortunate for all\nparties, as her elbows were decidedly akimbo...
626	514_part_2,_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Amy writes letters back to her family and in them, she describes the adventures she is having in Europe. While in England she runs into Frank and Fred Vaughn who were Laurie's friends. She spends a lot of time with them, and they show her London. When Amy and her relatives leave to go to Paris, Fred joins them. He trav...	[ "Dearest People, Here I really sit at a front window of the Bath Hotel,\nPiccadilly. It's not a fashionable place, but Uncle stopped here years\nago, and won't go anywhere else. However, we don't mean to stay long,\nso it's no great matter. Oh, I can't begin to tell you how I enjoy it\nall! I never can, so I'll...
627	514_part_2,_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. March approaches Jo one day and tells her that something is wrong with Beth. Marmee does not think that she is acting her usual self and Jo endeavors to find out the problem. While studying her little sister one day, Jo realizes that Beth is in love with Laurie. She wonders if it would be possible for Laurie to lo...	[ "\"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.\"", "\"Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.\"", "\"It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure\nthere is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is.\"", "\"What makes you think so, Mother?\"", "\"She sits ...
628	514_part_2,_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo writes detailed letters home about her life in New York. Most of her letters however are about one man who she lives with that she finds exceptionally interesting, Professor Bhaer. He is German and loves kids. Jo befriends him and he begins teaching her German in exchange for her doing mending his clothing. Jo tells...	[ "New York, November", "Dear Marmee and Beth,", "I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got heaps to tell,\nthough I'm not a fine young lady traveling on the continent. When I\nlost sight of Father's dear old face, I felt a trifle blue, and might\nhave shed a briny drop or two, if an Irish lady with f...
629	514_part_2,_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo wrote a story and took it to a newspaper called the Weekly Volcano. She left the story there, asking the man if he would look it over and consider publishing it. He told her to come back in a week and a week later when she did, he told her he would publish it if she cut out all of the moral lessons in it. Jo agreed ...	[ "Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy\nwith the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the\neffort, Jo still found time for literary labors. The purpose which now\ntook possession of her was a natural one to a poor and ambitious girl,\nbut the means she took to gain...
630	514_part_2,_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo came home to see Laurie graduate from college. Afterwards, they went for a walk and Laurie, though Jo begged him not to, profess his love for her. He asked her to marry him, but Jo refused telling him that she did not love him. He was heartbroken, and Jo was too for him because she did not want to break his heart. L...	[ "Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose\nthat year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with\nthe grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his\nfriends said. They were all there, his grandfather--oh, so proud--Mr.\nand Mrs. March, John and Meg, Jo ...
631	514_part_2,_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jo took the money she had made writing for the paper and she and Beth went to the seashore. When she had come back from New York, Jo realized that she saw a change in Beth. She also realized that what she thought the previous fall was not true. Beth was not in love with Laurie. The thing that was making her act differe...	[ "When Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in\nBeth. No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too\ngradually to startle those who saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by\nabsence, it was very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she\nsaw her sister's face. It was...
632	514_part_2,_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following Christmas Laurie met up with Amy in Europe and both they went driving together. Laurie would not talk about his experiences, but noticed Amy was as mature as ever. Both noticed other pleasant changes in the other, and when a Christmas ball came along, Amy made special care to look nice for Laurie. When he...	[ "At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice\nmay be seen on the Promenade des Anglais--a charming place, for the\nwide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is\nbounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined\nwith hotels and villas, while beyond l...
633	514_part_2,_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Meg began her life with her children, she made the mistake of forgetting life with her husband. She neglected John and her housework to take care of the babies, and after a while John began spending his evenings away from home at the Scott's house. Six months went by and nothing seemed to improve. Finally, Marmee ca...	[ "In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married,\nwhen 'Vive la liberte!' becomes their motto. In America, as everyone\nknows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy\ntheir freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually\nabdicate with the first heir to the ...
634	514_part_2,_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Laurie spent a few months with Amy in Europe and through all that time, Amy began to like him less and less. Because she was a lady however, she did not show her annoyance and spent the majority of her time with him. One day they took a drive together so Amy could draw, and she brought up her problems with him. She tol...	[ "Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month. He\nwas tired of wandering about alone, and Amy's familiar presence seemed\nto give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a\npart. He rather missed the 'petting' he used to receive, and enjoyed a\ntaste of it again, for no atten...
635	514_part_2,_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The family gave the brightest room in the house to Beth and filled with the things she loved. Beth spent her last happy days giving away her things to little children who walked by the house, and in the warmth and love of her family. Finally, however, she lost the strength to even sew and took to her bed. Jo never left...	[ "When the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable,\nand tried to bear it cheerfully, helping one another by the increased\naffection which comes to bind households tenderly together in times of\ntrouble. They put away their grief, and each did his or her part\ntoward making that last year a h...
596	514_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The March family consists of Marmee and her four girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and Father who is off working as a chaplain in the Civil War. We meet the girls first in Chapter 1 as they sit around the living room bemoaning the fact that they will not be having Christmas presents this year. They each have one dollar whic...	[ "\"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,\" grumbled Jo, lying\non the rug.", "\"It's so dreadful to be poor!\" sighed Meg, looking down at her old\ndress.", "\"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty\nthings, and other girls nothing at all,\" added little Amy, with an\ninjur...

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