Copy - Little Women short

by Jessica Bartel

Little Women: How different is the movie from the book

Index

1. Louisa May Alcott

8. important book scenes that didn't get mentioned in the movie

2. Facts about the Novel

3. Characters

4. plot overview of the book

5. historical background

6. plot overview of the movie

7. general differences and particularities of the book and the movie

9. Reviews

10. Movie scenes

11. Conclusion

Louisa May Alcott

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• coming-of-age novel
• point of view; Third person Omniscient
• Past tense
• written during and after the American Civil War
• it´s a semi-autobiography

Facts about the novel

Characters

Josephine March/ Jo

Elizabeth March/ Beth

Theodore Laurence/ Laurie

Margaret March/ Marmee

Amy Curtis March

Margaret March/ Meg

Father returns for Christmas and Meg get proposed to and waits for 3 years

Book plot overwiew

overcome many personal troubles and father get´s sick in washington

Aunt March dies, Jo marries Bhear, opens school

Meeting the Laurences

Meg marries Brooke + gives birth, Jo focuses on writing

Jo goes back + rejects Laurie, He goes to Europe, meets Amy,Beth dies, Laurie proposes to her after she rejected Fred Vaughn

Introduction of the sisters

Christmas

Beth catches scarlet fever and recovers

Amy goes to Europe, Jo moves to NY, meets Bhaer

Was written during the American Civil War

Historical background

Christmas with their father

Plot overview movie

Amy burned Jo´s book out of jealousy, Meg and John met, Laurie and Amy in France

Bhear and Jo get married, Aunt March dies, Jo opens up a school and publishes Little Women

meeting Laurie for the first time at a party, Christmas, Amy´s punishment

Meg gets married, Jo rejects Laurie´s proposal and moves to NY. Amy goes to Europe

Jo begins to write Little Women and Bhear shows up

Jo in NY + meets Bhear, receive criticism, and is mad about it, went home bc of Beth

Marmee taking care of Mr.march, Beth contracting Scarlet Fever

Beth dies, Laurie and Amy return from Europe married, Jo questioning if she turned him down too quickly

Clear seperation of girlhood and adulthood --> Chapter One = girlhood

Not in the chronological book order

Movie

VS

Book

They got closer to Laurie in a different way and met his grandfather in a different situation

The time when they got judged by Kate Vaughn because of their poverty

Book scenes that were different from movie scenes or not even displayed

• "A timeless classic that I enjoyed just as much now as I did when I first read it at school"
• " I found myself scanning the book because of its slow plot. There aren´t many exciting events to keep the reader hooked throughout"
• "I was a bit surprised by how Amy and Laurie are written. Having now read the book, I feel that no one has yet truly captured their essences on screen"
• "That feeling when you spend the whole majority of the book desperately longing to be a Jo, but end up realizing you´re actually just a beth
• "Alexa, play "Champagne Problems" by Taylor Swift"
  

Book reviews

• "We enjoyed the movie but some of the editing choices made it difficult to follow the story and to differentiate between the times when the girls were younger teenagers and when they were young adults"
• "This chronological shuffling jolts the story awake and nudges the viewer to pay close attention"
• "Though Alcott`s work has been adapted many times before, Gerwig`s movie could rightfully become the definitive adaption

Movie review

Beth´s last christmas

Laurie and Jo dance outside of the ball hall

Both, the book and the movie are something everyone should´ve watched or read at least once. Just to see the sisters growing up together is a very refreshing feeling and might make you think about memories of your childhood