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597 | 514_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The girls wake up on Christmas morning to find no stockings hanging by the fireplace, but instead a small Bible under each girls pillow. Following Megs example they vow to read a little every day. Their mother has already gone somewhere; Amy disappears for a while and returns with a larger, prettier bottle of cologne f... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg and Jo get their chance to meet the Laurence boy at a New Years Eve dance. The chapter begins with a great deal of discussion about costume although the girls only have one outfit each. Jos dress is burned in the back because she has a habit of standing too close to the fire place and her gloves are stained. She wo... | [
"\"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_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One of the girls favorite books is Pilgrims Progress, a story which was introduced to them by their father. Through the years they have sometimes used the house as a setting for Pilgrims journey and have acted out the story, beginning in the basement and ending in the upstairs. At the top of second floor staircase, the... | [
"\"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_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo visits Laurie one snowy afternoon when she has nothing else to do and Laurie is shut up in his house with a cold. The two teens spend a while getting acquainted. Laurie reveals that he knows quite a bit about the sisters including their names as he often watches them through his windows. Laurie describes his grandfa... | [
"\"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_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The March family strikes up further acquaintance with the Laurences although they must first get past their "lions." For Beth, the biggest lion is Mr. Laurence himself who unintentionally speaks gruffly to her and sends her flying for home. For others the lions are a matter of pride and situation. They see Mr. Laurence... | [
"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_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg performs a kindness for Amy by giving money she needs to participate in a school fad, but the deed backfires, leaving Amy too humiliated to return to the school. Pickled limes are the current fad. The girls treat each other to them and trade off pencils and various trinkets for a lime to suck on. Amys predicament i... | [
"\"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_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie has invited Jo and Meg to go with him to the theater to see The Seven Castles of Diamond Lake. When Amy finds out where they are going, she begs to be taken along. Meg would relent, but Jo refuses, saying that Amy wasnt invited, and that it would not be fair to Laurie to bring along an unexpected person. Amy tak... | [
"\"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_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg spends a couple of weeks with the fashionable Moffats where she has an opportunity to party, dance and shop to her hearts content. The experience is not quite as much fun as she anticipated as the other girls exchange superior glances over Megs out-of-style, well-worn tarleton gown. A delivery of flowers from Lauri... | [
"\"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_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Pickwick Club is one of the diversions the March girls have invented to occupy their time after gardening and other springtime chores. They contribute various written pieces to a weekly "Pickwick Portfolio" of which Jo is the editor. Each girl takes the identity of a different Dickens character with Meg taking that... | [
"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_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the first of June and all of the girls are looking forward to vacation. The Kings have gone to the seashore, Aunt March is gone to Plumfield to visit other family, and Beth and Amy think they should have some freedom from lessons. Each one plans to spend days in idleness, sleeping in, playing with dolls, practici... | [
"\"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_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie invites the girls to a picnic in Longmeadow where they will be joined by some of his English friends, the Vaughn's along with Mr. Brooke, the Moffats and a few others. After taking boats to the meadow, they play a round of croquet which nearly leads to a quarrel for Jo when she catches Fred cheating at the game.... | [
"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_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie spots the girls dressed as if to go walking or boating and thinks they have failed to invite him. He follows them and finds them in a little grove where each girl is engaged in her own particular hobby. Amy is drawing, Beth sorting cones for crafts, Meg sewing and Jo knitting and reading simultaneously. After al... | [
"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_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo secretly takes a story to a newspaper publisher and shares secrets with Laurie who happened to catch her trying to get up enough nerve to go into the publishing house. Laurie's secret is that Brooke is the person who kept Meg's missing love and that Brooke is sweet on Meg. He thinks Jo will be pleased, but instead s... | [
"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_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marmee receives a telegram telling her that Mr. March has been taken sick and that she should come to Washington immediately. Everyone rushes around trying to help her. Laurie takes a hurried letter to Aunt March from whom Marmee borrows money for the trip. Mr Laurence sends Mr. Brooke to accompany her. Jo makes the ul... | [
"\"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_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marmee has gone to Washington to be with Mr. March. Mr. Brooke sends them word every day and soon is able to tell them that their father has improved. Most of the chapter is comprised of a round of short letters in which everyone sends a greeting and speaks of the happenings at home from his or her own point of view. | [
"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_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By the time Mrs. March has been gone a week, the girls begin to slack off in their duties and resolves to keep things operating as usual. Beth alone continues in her work and often completes her sisters' as well. On of the tasks is to faithfully visit the Hummels who are very poor and have a sick baby. On this particul... | [
"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_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beth has a severe case of the scarlet fever. As the days pass she gradually worsens until she lapses into an unconscious state. Finally the doctor announces that Mrs. March should be sent for. Jo races off to the telegram office, but on the way home finds out the Laurie has already sent a message and that Mrs. March is... | [
"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... |
615 | 514_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The girls along with Laurie and Mr. Laurence enjoy the reunion with Marmee. Marmee visits Amy at the Aunt's house and encourages her to hang in there a bit longer. Amy displays the ring which Aunt March has already given her and begs to be allowed to wear it as a reminder to keep from being selfish. Mrs. March confides... | [
"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_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie wheedles the secret about Meg and Mr. Brooke out of Jo, then plans a retaliation for having been left out. He composes a series of letters, ostensibly from Mr. Brooks. In one letter he confesses his love, and Meg answers by saying that she is too young to marry and prefers to be friends for a long while. In the ... | [
"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_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The girls and Marmee celebrate another Christmas along with Hannah and Laurie. Mrs. March has a letter from her husband saying he will soon be with them. While occupying themselves with such blessings as they have, however, they are surprised by the appearance of Mr. Brook and Father at the door. He still has some conv... | [
"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_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dec 26. Laurie torments Meg about his impression of Brooke's courtship. Meg confides in Jo, declaring that she would turn Mr. Brooks down because she is too young to think of marriage. Nevertheless, Mr. Brooks approaches Meg before the day is over and tries to ask permission to court her. In a sudden urge to be coy, Me... | [
"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_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three years have passed. Meg has worked and prepared for the wedding; her sisters and mother have enthusiastically helped prepare Dovecote, the little house where Meg and John will take up residence. Mr. March has recovered his health although not his fortune. He seems to spend most of his time absorbed with his books ... | [
"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_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg and John get married in a simple ceremony in the March home. There no elaborate ritual; in fact, Aunt March is scandalized by the fact that the bride herself is greeting people at the door and running around helping with odds and ends in her gown. After the marriage, the family and friends celebrate with food and d... | [
"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_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy has been experimenting with one media after another in her artistic creations. Although she is never satisfied with her own attempts, her artistic endeavors have brought her into contact with many people. She seems to come by social graces naturally and makes many friends. Amy's greatest weakness is that "she wants... | [
"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_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo tries her hand at a "mildly sensational" story and submits it to a newspaper in hopes of winning the 100 dollar prize. Although her father frowns at the type of story, Jo uses the money to send Marmee and Beth to the seaside to help Beth gain her health back. Jo continues to write and her stories find a market. Mean... | [
"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_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg learns to keep her own house and practices her cooking skills. In a desire to faithfully meet her husbands needs, she tells him that he can bring friends home to dinner anytime and neednt bother to ask her first. Megs good intention backfires when she decides to make currant jelly. After an entire day of cooking an... | [
"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_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy has grown to be quite a lady with manners and bearing that suggest a higher class upbringing than she has actually had. She likes to call on various members of the community and has talked Jo into going with her on this occasion. Amy gives Jo specific instructions on how to behave at each home. Jo doesnt want to go... | [
"\"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_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy works at the Chester fair where she initially helps to set up the art table. May Chester is jealous of Amy's items and convinces her mother to take the table away from her and send her to a less popular flower table that is slightly out of the mainstream of the traffic. Amy's first day is miserable as the young gir... | [
"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_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy writes a series of letters from Europe and England. In England she meets up with Laurie's English friends, Fred and Frank Vaughan. Later Fred travels with Amy's party throughout France. Fred speaks French fluently and takes Amy everywhere. One night they go for a sail on the Rhine River and a group of students sere... | [
"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_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marmee is concerned about Beth who seems very quiet and is sometimes seen crying. She asks Jo to keep an eye on her and to find out what's wrong. Jo thinks the problem is just that Beth is growing up. A few days of observation and some coincidental remarks about Laurie convince Jo that Beth is in love with Laurie, but ... | [
"\"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_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo writes a series of letters telling about her activities in New York. She makes friends with Mrs. Norton, a spinster lady who helps her get acquainted and frequently invites her to the family style evening meal in the large, apartment-like boarding house. The most important person she meets is Professor Bhaer (later ... | [
"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_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo begins writing sensational stories for the Weekly Volcano. Mr. Dashwood, the editor, accepts the first story she gives him, but cuts out all the parts that Jo refers to as morals. She pretends to be submitting the stories for a friend who wants to remain unnamed, but Mr. Dashwood sees through it although he never co... | [
"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_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie has graduated from college; he put forth some real effort and graduated with honors in hopes of winning Jo. He proposes to her in spite of her objections and she tells him that although she is very fond of him, she does not love him in the way that he wants her to. Mr. Laurence is sympathetic with his grandson, ... | [
"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_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo uses the money she earned from the Volcano to take Beth for another visit to the ocean. During the little vacation, Jo learns that Beth never was in love with Laurie, but that the reason for her sadness of the previous year was that she had begun to realize she was dying. She seems to fade a little more each day. Be... | [
"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_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We find Amy and Laurie in France where he has promised to spend Christmas with her. He seems glad to see her and admires the changes in her, but the sentiment is not shared. To her, he seems indifferent, and his dandy-type compliments are hollow and insincere. They attend a Christmas ball where his off-hand remarks and... | [
"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_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John and Meg endure a minor storm in their marriage. Meg has been devoting all of her time and energies to the twins to the exclusion of her husband. The housework has been allowed to slide while Meg spends the day in the nursery. When John gets home from work, he has to tread lightly and speak softly to avoid disturbi... | [
"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_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie spends a month instead of the planned week in France. He finds himself drawn to Amy, but she is disgusted with him. She is too lady-like and he too lazy for them to actually quarrel, but she accuses him of indolence and of neglecting his own talent and potential. When she discovers that the reason for his indiff... | [
"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_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In one of the shortest but most emotionally packed chapters of the novel, Beth dies. For the last year of her life she is given the best room in the house and is continuously surrounded by family. Her favorite is Jo who scarcely leaves the room, but tends the fire and waits on her tirelessly. In spite of her grief, Jo ... | [
"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_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie takes Amy's lecture to heart and decides that he can make Jo respect him even if he can't make her love him. He goes to Vienna to work with some musical friends and tries his hand at composing. He has little success and finally decides-after attending one of Mozart's grand operas that "talent isn't genius." He 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_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo had promised Beth that she would take her place in being a comfort to their parents and in helping to keep the home running smoothly. However, she finds that it is more of a burden than she can handle with Beth gone. She and Marmee consol each other, and Jo finds some relief in the household chores that once had bee... | [
"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_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie and Amy come home with the news that they have gotten married. Aunt Carrol wouldn't allow Amy to travel without a chaperone, and Mr. Laurence wanted to come home. Since Laurie couldn't leave Amy behind, and Aunt Carrol wasn't yet ready to return stateside, they decided to get married in Europe. Laurie tells Jo t... | [
"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_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get a brief inside look an Amy and Laurie in their home in the Laurence mansion. They discuss the possibility of Mr. Bhaer marrying Jo. Laurie isn't jealous of the professor, but both are concerned about his lack of means. They long for a way to share their own wealth, but know that both the professor and Jo are too... | [
"\"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_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The twins are visiting their grandparents and Jo whom they call Aunt Dodo. Daisy is a minature of Beth and Demi is an inquisitive and manipulative, lovable rascal. For him, his dignified grandfather will lie on the floor and twist his body to form the letters of the alphabet. Professor Bhaer finds Mr. March in this hum... | [
"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_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For two weeks Jo and Professor Bhaer meet each other daily when Jo goes for her evening walk to Meg's house. Jo is afraid of being laughed at and tries to keep her feelings hidden, but everyone is aware of change in her. Suddenly, with no goodbyes or explanations, the professor stays away for three days. One afternoon ... | [
"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_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo works and waits for a year while the professor fulfills his teaching obligation. After they are married they take up residence at Plumfield, the mansion willed to Jo by Aunt March. There Jo opens a school for boys. The Bhaer school at last gives the Laurences opportunity to spend their wealth for a worthy cause. The... | [
"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 ... |
643 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Playing Pilgrims The story begins on Christmas Eve, where the four daughters are gathered in their simple living room lamenting that, this year, they are too poor to have presents on Christmas. Meg is sixteen and quite pretty. She can be vain, especially about her soft, white hands. Jo is fifteen years old, a tomboy wi... | [
"I. PLAYING PILGRIMS.",
"\"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 things,\nand other girls nothing at all,\" added ... |
644 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Very Merry Christmas The girls wake up to find books under their pillows, with an inscription in each from their mother, and decide to read their books every morning. Inspired by the book, Amy acts on her wish to be less selfish by spending all her money on a large bottle of cologne for her mother, rather than saving... | [
"II. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.",
"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 because\nit was so crammed with goodies. Then she remembered her mother's\npromise, an... |
645 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Laurence Boy Meg and Jo are invited to a New Year's Eve dance at the Gardiner house. While getting ready, it is quickly apparent that tomboy Jo is ill suited for such a party, with a dress burnt from standing too close to the fire, gloves stained with lemonade, and little sense of proper, ladylike ways to behave. W... | [
"III. THE LAURENCE BOY.",
"\"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,\"\nwrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny\n... |
646 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Burdens Everyone is grumpy on returning to the first day of work after the holidays. Meg is particularly frustrated that some people enjoy restful days and nice parties all the time, while she must work because she is poor. Meg remembers when her family had more wealth and comforts, before Mr. March lost his property t... | [
"IV. BURDENS.",
"\"Oh dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on,\" sighed\nMeg, the morning after the party; for, now the holidays were over, the\nweek of merry-making did not fit her for going on easily with the task\nshe never liked.",
"\"I wish it was Christmas or New-Year all the time; woul... |
647 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Being Neighborly One day Jo, intent on getting to know Laurie, throws a snowball at Laurie's window. She learns that he has had a bad cold and is bored. He invites her over, and the girls all send gifts with Jo, including Beth's cats, which make Laurie laugh and forget his shyness. Jo learns that Laurie, in his lonelin... | [
"V. BEING NEIGHBORLY.",
"[Illustration: Being neighborly]",
"\"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,\... |
648 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful One of the lions to get past before the Marches can enjoy the Palace Beautiful is their awkwardness because they are poor and the Laurences are wealthy. However, they soon learn that Laurie feels himself the benefactor, and they accept the mutual benefit. The March family's philosophy an... | [
"VI. BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL.",
"The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for\nall to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr.\nLaurence was the biggest one; but after he had called, said something\nfunny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over o... |
649 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy's Valley of Humiliation Amy sighs for money, wishing she could buy pickled limes to treat her friends at school. Meg gives her a quarter, and Amy brings the limes to school. One unkind girl reports the limes to Mr. Davis, the teacher. Mr. Davis makes Amy throw the limes into the snow, then strikes her palm and make... | [
"VII. AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION.",
"[Illustration: The Cyclops]",
"\"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,\" c... |
650 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo Meets Apollyon Laurie invites Jo and Meg to the theater, and Amy begs to go along, but Jo refuses. To get revenge, Amy burns up a book manuscript, a collection of stories that Jo had been writing for several years. Jo, who has a hot temper, shakes Amy and boxes her ears. Gradually Amy realizes she was wrong, but Jo ... | [
"VIII. JO MEETS APOLLYON.",
"\"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 sharply.",
"Now if there _... |
651 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg Goes to Vanity Fair In the spring, Meg goes to stay a fortnight with Annie Moffat. Mrs. March is concerned that Meg will return discontented, but consents to the trip. Meg is upset she does not have very nice things to take, but she remembers to be happy that she has this chance. Meg is at first daunted by the luxu... | [
"IX. MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR.",
"\"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 ... |
652 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The P. C. and P. O. In the spring, the girls tend to their garden plots and form a secret society named the Pickwick Club, after Dickens, with each dressing and acting like a particular character. They create a weekly newspaper, which the narrator assures the readers is a copy of a genuine newspaper composed by four re... | [
"X. THE P. C. AND P. O.",
"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\nw... |
653 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Experiments In the summer, Meg and Jo celebrate that their employers are off for three months elsewhere, so they have vacation. The girls decide that after their hard work, they want to spend their days in idle enjoyment. Amy and Beth wish to have a rest as well, and Marmee grants permission for a one-week experiment, ... | [
"XI. EXPERIMENTS.",
"\"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore to-morrow, and I'm\nfree. Three months' vacation,--how I shall enjoy it!\" exclaimed Meg,\ncoming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual\nstate of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made\nlemon... |
654 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Camp Laurence Beth's delivery of the post one summer day brings several things. Meg receives one glove and a poem translated from German by Mr. Brooke, which makes Mrs. March wonder about Mr. Brooke's intentions for Meg. Jo receives a note from her Mother admiring how she is working to master her temper, for which she ... | [
"XII. CAMP LAURENCE.",
"[Illustration: Beth was post-mistress]",
"Beth was post-mistress, 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 full,\nand went about the house l... |
655 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Castles in the Air After a frustrating day, Laurie spies the March girls going on a picnic and decides to follow them. He finds them in a clearing, and is given permission to join as long as he is not idle. The girls explain that as part of their Pilgrim's Progress game, they have been working on their goals over the v... | [
"XIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR.",
"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\nli... |
656 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Secrets Jo finishes a manuscript and then goes into town on a mysterious errand. Laurie sees her from a gymnasium, which Jo mistakes for a billiard saloon and chastises him. Laurie says he only goes to saloons occasionally, but Jo warns him to be careful not to get too wild, or Mother will prevent him visiting, as she ... | [
"XIV. SECRETS.",
"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 p... |
657 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Telegram On a gray November day, just as Marmee arrives home, a telegram arrives from Washington Hospital informing Marmee that Father is very ill, and asking her to come at once. Mother, the girls, and Hannah feel the world changing. They gather in fear and hope, until Hannah recovers and finds work a cure for despa... | [
"XV. A TELEGRAM.",
"[Illustration: November is the most disagreeable month in the year]",
"\"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,\" said\nMargaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the\nfrost-bitten garden.",
"\"That's the reason I was born in it,\" observed Jo p... |
658 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Letters The early morning finds the girls diligently reading their guidebooks, seeking comfort in their time of worry. The girls agree to say goodbye to Marmee cheerfully, and not add to her woes. She leaves them in Hannah's care and Mr. Laurence's protection. She encourages them to stay busy with work and not to griev... | [
"XVI. LETTERS.",
"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 good-by cheerfully and hopefully,\nand send t... |
659 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Little Faithful After a week of their tremendous hard work and virtue, the girls become a little less faithful. Jo catches cold, Amy returns to her art, and Meg spends much time rereading Mr. Brooke's dispatches and writing to her Mother. Beth keeps up with her chores and does many of her sisters' as well. She goes to ... | [
"XVII. LITTLE FAITHFUL.",
"For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the\nneighborhood. It was really amazing, for every one seemed in a heavenly\nframe of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of their\nfirst anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed their\... |
660 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dark Days In fact, Beth is quite sick, but Hannah tries to maintain a hopeful front. It is during Beth's illness that many come to appreciate the importance of her sweet, selfless role in their lives. Jo, nursing Beth, has her rough was softened by Beth's tenderness and virtue. The girls are surprised by how many frien... | [
"XVIII. DARK DAYS",
"[Illustration: Beth did have the fever]",
"Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than any one but Hannah and\nthe doctor suspected. The girls knew nothing about illness, and Mr. Laurence was not allowed to see her, so Hannah had everything all her\nown way, and busy Dr. Bangs did his... |
661 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amy's Will While life at home during Beth's illness is trying for the girls, life for Amy with Aunt March is also difficult for her. Aunt March cares for Amy, but tries to raise her on discipline and demands, rather than the loving kindness to which Amy is accustomed. With Aunt March, Amy must do an extraordinary amoun... | [
"XIX. AMY'S WILL.",
"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,... |
662 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Confidential Marmee's delayed arrival from the train is received with great tenderness and love. After delivering Mrs. March, Laurie rushes off to tell Amy and Aunt March the news. Amy patiently and selflessly suppresses her desire to see her mother and gains praise from Laurie and Aunt March, who gives Amy the turquoi... | [
"XX. CONFIDENTIAL",
"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 to\ndescribe, so I will leave it to the imagination of my readers, merely\nsaying that the house was full of genuine happiness, and that Meg's\ntender hope... |
663 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurie Makes Mischief, and Jo Makes Peace Jo tries dearly to keep her Mother's secret, to the frustration of Meg and Laurie. Laurie, devising that the secret concerns Meg and John Brooke, plots to find out what it is. Meg receives a letter she thinks is from John, professing his love for her. Meg secretly responds that... | [
"XXI. LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE.",
"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 observed\nit, but did not trouble herself to make inquiries, for she had learned\nthat the best way to manage Jo was by the l... |
664 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pleasant Meadows As Christmas approaches, both Beth and Mr. March are recovering nicely, and Mr. March talks of coming home soon. All of the girls have been influenced for the better by Beth's illness, with Meg working cheerfully, Amy giving away her possessions, and Jo tenderly caring for her sister. On Christmas morn... | [
"XXII. PLEASANT MEADOWS.",
"Like sunshine after storm were the peaceful weeks which followed. The\ninvalids 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,\n... |
665 | 37106_part_1,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aunt March Settles the Question Despite the utter joy at having Father home, there is a lingering anxiety and uncertainty in the March house felt by the adults about Meg and John. Jo confronts Meg, who says that if John asks her, she will kindly ask to remain friends, as she is too young. Just at that moment, Mr. Brook... | [
"XXIII. AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION.",
"[Illustration: Popping in her head now and then]",
"Like bees swarming after their queen, mother and daughters hovered about\nMr. March the next day, neglecting everything to look at, wait upon, and\nlisten to the new invalid, who was in a fair way to be killed by\nki... |
666 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gossip The narrator begins Part II with some "gossip" about the March family. Three years later, the war has ended, and Mr. March is a minister and still quietly heads the household as its conscience and guide. John Brooke served in the army, was wounded and discharged, and is working as a bookkeeper to earn a home for... | [
"XXIV. GOSSIP.",
"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 folk... |
667 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The First Wedding Meg's wedding is simple, as she wants everything plain, honest, and surrounded with love. She made her own wedding dress, with only flowers for accessories. Aunt March is scandalized when she arrives and is welcomed by the bride herself. During the ceremony, the vows are said with great earnestness an... | [
"XXV. THE FIRST WEDDING.",
"The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that\nmorning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like\nfriendly little neighbors, as they were. Quite flushed with excitement\nwere their ruddy faces, as they swung in the wind, whispering to one\nano... |
668 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Artistic Attempts Pursuing her ambition to become a great artist, Amy has tried various forms of art to the entertainment of her family, from poker sketching to painting to charcoal to sculpting, which ends in when an attempt to make a plaster mold of her foot goes awry. Meanwhile, she also strives to be an accomplishe... | [
"XXVI. ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS.",
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and\ngenius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this\ndistinction through much tribulation; for, mistaking enthusiasm for\ninspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity. ... |
669 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Literary Lessons Jo, wishing to be a writer, spends great time in the garret when she feels inspired, often foregoing meals and sleep to translate her imagination into stories. One day, while accompanying Miss Crocker to a lecture, she learns that sensational stories like those by Mrs. S. L. A. N. G. Northbury have qui... | [
"XXVII. LITERARY LESSONS.",
"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 than did the little sum that came to her\nin this wise.",
"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her r... |
670 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Domestic Experiences Meg and John have a wonderful but trying time adjusting to married life. Their first big fight comes about after Meg tries to make currant jelly. After a day of boiling, sugaring, and straining their entire crop of currants, Meg is unable to make the jelly, and ends the day crying with exhaustion. ... | [
"XXVIII. DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES.",
"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,... |
671 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Calls Amy and Jo prepare to make formal calls to families around town, to Jo's great consternation. Amy dresses Jo and instructs her in how to carry herself and behave at each house so she will be liked, but Jo, annoyed by the exercise of trying to win others' approval, acts inappropriately at every home. Jo imitates o... | [
"XXIX. CALLS.",
"[Illustration: Calls]",
"\"Come, Jo, it's time.\"",
"\"For what?\"",
"\"You don't mean to say you have forgotten that you promised to make half\na dozen calls with me to-day?\"",
"\"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... |
672 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Consequences After spending long hours preparing to work the art table at the Chesters' fair, making her own pieces and soliciting ones from others, Amy is asked by Mrs. Chester to move to the flower table. May Chester is jealous of Amy, whose art was prettier, who was danced with more often. May also heard rumors that... | [
"XXX. CONSEQUENCES.",
"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 every one was much interested in the\nmatter. Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fortunate for all\nparties, as her elbo... |
673 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our Foreign Correspondent We learn of Amy's travels through her letters home. She describes the ship to Ireland and the train to London in picturesque detail, her artistic eye soaking up the colors and scenery. She enjoys traveling very much, including the attentions of several gentlemen along the way. London is rainy,... | [
"XXXI. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.",
"\"LONDON.\n \"DEAREST PEOPLE,--",
"\"Here I really sit at a front window of the Bath Hotel,\n Piccadilly. It's not a fashionable place, but uncle stopped here\n years ago, and won't go anywhere else; however, we don't mean to\n stay long, so it's no great matter.... |
674 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tender Troubles Marmee notices that something is troubling Beth, for she has been quite sad, and asks Jo to find out Beth's secret. After observing her, Jo decides that Beth is in love with Laurie. Jo insists to herself that she will make Laurie love Beth back. In fact, Laurie has been trying to express his affections ... | [
"XXXII. TENDER TROUBLES.",
"\"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 s... |
675 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo's Journal Jo's letters describe her new home, a funny room in the boardinghouse, and her two pupils. Mrs. Kirke is quite kind, but busy, and Jo finds herself bashful in the big house. Jo observes Professor Bhaer, an older, poor German who tutors to support his nephews. As her pupils' nursery is next to Mr. Bhaer's s... | [
"XXXIII. JO'S JOURNAL.",
"\"NEW YORK, November.",
"\"DEAR MARMEE AND BETH,--",
"\"I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got heaps to\n tell, though I'm not a fine young lady travelling on the\n continent. When I lost sight of father's dear old face, I felt a\n trifle blue, and might have ... |
676 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Friend For many years, Jo has wished to be wealthy, so that she could give make Beth comfortable, go abroad, and always have more than enough so she could share it with others. So, following her success with her prize money writing sensation stories, she continues to do so in New York for a paper called the Weekly Vo... | [
"XXXIV. A FRIEND",
"Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with\nthe 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 m... |
677 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heartache Laurie, who worked ardently while Jo was away, grew his hair as she likes, and gave up billiards, graduates from college with honors and makes everyone proud. The day he returns from college, Jo meets him, fearing he may propose. Jo is right, as Laurie admits that he has loved her since the moment he met her,... | [
"XXXV. HEARTACHE.",
"Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that\nyear, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the\ngrace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends\nsaid. They were all there, his grandfather,--oh, so proud!--Mr. and Mrs.\nM... |
678 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beth's Secret When Jo returns from New York, she notices a change in Beth, as if the mortal is fading away and the immortal is starting to shine through. She proposes a trip to the mountains with her newspaper earnings, but Beth begs to stay closer to home, so she and Jo go to the seashore for a few weeks. It is here t... | [
"XXXVI. BETH'S SECRET.",
"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\nsa... |
679 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | New Impressions At Christmas, Laurie comes to Nice to see Amy. They are delighted to have reminders of home. Amy feels often that she ought to go home to see Beth, but her family says stay. Laurie and Amy gather new impressions of each other after a year apart. Both feel the other have grown from children into young ad... | [
"XXXVII. NEW IMPRESSIONS.",
"At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may\nbe seen on the Promenade des Anglais,--a charming place; for the wide\nwalk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on\none side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hot... |
680 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the Shelf With Daisy and Demi, Meg and John's twins, come new challenges for the couple. Meg is completely absorbed in her babies for the first year of their lives, to the detriment of her happiness, John's, and their relationship. Meg ceases to give John her attention and time, and John responds by spending more ti... | [
"XXXVIII. ON THE SHELF.",
"In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married,\nwhen \"_Vive la liberté_\" becomes their motto. In America, as every one\nknows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy their\nfreedom with republican zest; but the young matrons usually abdica... |
681 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lazy Laurence Laurie stays a month in Nice, rather than a week as he planned, as both he and Amy enjoy each other's companionship. One day they go to Valrosa and Amy sketches him and decides to find out what has changed. She and worries that he has gotten into trouble gambling or loving a married woman, but Laurie assu... | [
"XXXIX. LAZY LAURENCE.",
"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 home-like charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a\npart. He rather missed the \"petting\" he used to receive, and enjoyed a\nt... |
682 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Valley of the Shadow At home, everyone does her best to make Beth's remaining time happy. A room is set up for her with her piano and worktable and everyone's nicest trinkets and pleasures. Beth, never idle, sits and makes gifts to drop out the window to the schoolchildren passing below. This sunny time together, w... | [
"XL. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.",
"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... |
683 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Learning to Forget Amy's lecture did make Laurie realize that he had been lazy and selfish. He goes to Vienna to try to earn Jo's respect, if not her love, by writing a Requiem or an opera. He finds, though, that tomboy Jo makes a difficult heroine, and instead uses memories of Amy as his model. Yet after attending an ... | [
"XLI. LEARNING TO FORGET.",
"Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till\nlong afterward; men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the\nlords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded\nthemselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon\nit,... |
684 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All Alone Despite her preparation, Jo is devastated at losing Beth, and feels despair at spending life attending only to household worries. She is comforted by her Mother, who shares her sorrow, and by her Father, whose ministry and counsel she seeks out. Through her work she tries to adopt Beth's spirit of cheerful ho... | [
"XLII. ALL ALONE.",
"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 promis... |
685 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Surprises The day before her twenty-fifth birthday, Jo laments that she will be a literary spinster. The narrator here urges readers to be kind and respectful to spinsters, as there is tragedy and sacrifice often in their histories, and remember the kindnesses that countless Aunts have shown them. Jo is surprised out o... | [
"XLIII. SURPRISES.",
"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... |
686 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | My Lord and Lady Laurie and Amy discuss the potential of Mr. Bhaer marrying Jo, and wish they could help his poverty without hurting their pride. Laurie reassures Amy that he will be fully glad for Jo, without remorse, and Amy reassures Laurie that she would have married him if he were a pauper. They lament that there ... | [
"XLIV. MY LORD AND LADY.",
"\"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, trying\nto find some things I want,\" said Laurie, coming in the next day to find\nMrs. Laurence sitting in her mother's lap, as if being made \"th... |
687 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Daisy and Demi The narrator insists on describing Daisy and Demi. Both are quite precocious, with Daisy modeling housekeeping and Demi energetically modeling machine making. Daisy is a sweet creature, whose angelic nature reminds the family of Beth, though she is not shy. Demi loves to understand how things work, inclu... | [
"XLV. DAISY AND DEMI.",
"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 of\ndiscretion; for in this fast age babies of three or four assert their\n... |
688 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Under the Umbrella During Mr. Bhaer's frequent visits from town, all realize the love that is growing between him and Jo, and see Jo's spirits rise, though no one says a word. Jo, though, is afraid that after years of denouncing love, Laurie especially will tease and laugh. After a fortnight of such visits, Mr. Bhaer s... | [
"XLVI. UNDER THE UMBRELLA.",
"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... |
689 | 37106_part_2,_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harvest Time Jo and her Professor work and wait for a year, writing letters and cultivating their love. When Aunt March dies, she lives her large estate Plumfield to Jo, who has the idea of turning it into a school for boys. She long had the dream of having a school, particularly for orphan boys whom she would love to ... | [
"XLVII. HARVEST TIME.",
"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 s... |
643 | 37106_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, are sitting around the fire at home on Christmas eve. They're complaining about the fact that this year, the family is too poor for them to get presents. Beth reminds the girls that they may not have presents, but they have each other and their parents. The other girls ob... | [
"I. PLAYING PILGRIMS.",
"\"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 things,\nand other girls nothing at all,\" added ... |
644 | 37106_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo wakes up first on Christmas morning, disappointed there are no presents. Then she remembers their talk with Marmee and looks under her pillow. She finds a little red book. The other sisters wake up one by one. Each of them has a copy of the same book under their pillow - Meg's is green, Amy's blue, and Beth's gray. ... | [
"II. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.",
"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 because\nit was so crammed with goodies. Then she remembered her mother's\npromise, an... |
645 | 37106_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg goes looking for Jo, who is doing one of her favorite things - sitting in the attic garret, eating apples, and reading. Meg shows Jo their invitation to a New Year's Eve dance at Mrs. Gardiner's tomorrow evening. The girls talk about what they will wear. Because their family doesn't have much money, each of them on... | [
"III. THE LAURENCE BOY.",
"\"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,\"\nwrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny\n... |
646 | 37106_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Meg is depressed. The holidays are over, the party is over, and now she has to go back to her daily grind. Jo tries to console her, but it's not easy. Meg and Jo go downstairs to breakfast, and it turns out that everyone is in a bad mood. Meg is feeling dissatisfied with being poor, Beth has a headach... | [
"IV. BURDENS.",
"\"Oh dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on,\" sighed\nMeg, the morning after the party; for, now the holidays were over, the\nweek of merry-making did not fit her for going on easily with the task\nshe never liked.",
"\"I wish it was Christmas or New-Year all the time; woul... |
647 | 37106_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jo comes in dressed to go outside. Meg asks what she's doing, and Jo says that she's going to get exercise. Meg can't believe that she's going out by choice on such a cold, wet day. Meg goes back to reading Ivanhoe beside the fire. Jo goes from her family's snug cottage to the grey stone mansion next door to see Laurie... | [
"V. BEING NEIGHBORLY.",
"[Illustration: Being neighborly]",
"\"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,\... |
648 | 37106_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator explains what the "lions" are that keep the March family from entering the "Palace Beautiful" - that is, the Laurences' magnificent home. One "lion" is old Mr. Laurence, who is very intimidating. The other "lion" is the economic gap between the two families. Laurie starts hanging out with the March girls a... | [
"VI. BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL.",
"The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for\nall to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr.\nLaurence was the biggest one; but after he had called, said something\nfunny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over o... |
649 | 37106_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The March girls are sitting at home together when Laurie rides by on horseback. Amy admires his horsemanship, and also his wealth. She says that she desperately needs money. Meg and Jo laugh at Amy and ask why she needs money so badly. Amy explains that it is fashionable at school for girls to buy pickled limes and sha... | [
"VII. AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION.",
"[Illustration: The Cyclops]",
"\"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,\" c... |
650 | 37106_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meg and Jo are getting dressed in their best clothes, ready to go out, when Amy comes in and wants to know where they're going. Jo doesn't want to tell Amy, but after an hour of wheedling Meg admits that Laurie is taking them out to the theater to see The Seven Castles. Amy begs to come, but her older sisters tell her ... | [
"VIII. JO MEETS APOLLYON.",
"\"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 sharply.",
"Now if there _... |
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