Book Review - Little Women

By Ayako Suzuki

The title is Little Women. The author is Louisa May Alcott.

Setting: This book begins two days before Christmas.

Main characters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.

Meg is 16 and she is very beautiful. She has big eyes and beautiful long brown hair.

Jo is 15. She is tall and thin. She has dark eyes and long brown hair.

Beth is 13. She is very quiet.

Amy has blue eyes and yellow hair. She is selfish.

They have a mother and father, but they live with their mother only because their father lives in a very far place. Then, their father works there. They want to live with their father.

One day they talked about Christmas. They hope that they will get some presents, but, their family didn't have any money, and they know their father will not come back. They try to buy some presents for themselves, but Mother heard this talk.

On Christmas morning, they opened their eyes and they looked under the beds. There were four books there. Their mother bought four books. They were very happy. Then, they go presents from a boy. They didn't know about the boy.

Five days later, Jo met the boy at a party. They talked a lot. Then, Jo fell in love with the boy.

This book talks about parties, the trouble with Amny, Meg's Glove, Jo's hair, and Beth's sickness. I like the story about Jo's hair. One day, their father gets sick, but they don't have any money. So Jo sold her hair and gave the money to her mother. Jo's hair was very short. When I read this, my heart hurts because she is very kind.

On Christmas Day, their father came back home. They were very, very happy.

I chose this book because it was attached to a CD. I listened to this CD a lot of times.