But when she meets Life reporter Charlotte "Charlie" Yates, and helps her write a story about the airplane factory, she realizes that she also needs to sort out her feelings for Charlie. Unable to write after Beth's death and needing to get out of the house after her fight with Meg, Jo is living in a boarding house, while working in a factory producing airplanes. Jo couldn't understand why Meg would give up everything for math teacher John Brooke, and Meg couldn't understand why Jo had refused to marry Laurie. Laurie had asked Jo to marry him before he left, but she said no. Now, their father is has enlisted as a Navy chaplain, Marmee is overly involved in charity work, and Laurie is a pilot stationed overseas. And that includes the March sisters, who are also still reeling from the recent death of their sister Beth. The United States has entered the war and people are still adjusting to the change. The latest retelling, Great or Nothing, takes place during a war like the original, but this time it is World War II. Murrow, More to the Story by Hena Khan, and Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Rey Terciero, among others. But I have been enjoying some of the new retellings like So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. When I asked why she was crying, she just said "You'll see." And I did indeed discover why a few years later when I read Little Women in fourth grade. And I've never re-read it. My first memory of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is my older sister sitting in an easy chair in the living room and crying her eyes out while reading the book.
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