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I kind of don't know how to deal with the casual racism in these books. The minstrel show in the affiliate "The Madcap Days" appals me equally an developed. Equally a child, living in Jamaica, sharing homes with Jamaican families and running in a pack with Jamaican kids, I actually didn't know what the "darkies" of this chapter were supposed to be. Conspicuously they were men making music and singing, their faces disguised with black polish. I neither knew nor would have understood what they were supposed to be. They
I kind of don't know how to deal with the coincidental racism in these books. The minstrel show in the chapter "The Madcap Days" appals me as an adult. As a kid, living in Jamaica, sharing homes with Jamaican families and running in a pack with Jamaican kids, I actually didn't know what the "darkies" of this chapter were supposed to be. Conspicuously they were men making music and singing, their faces disguised with blackness polish. I neither knew nor would have understood what they were supposed to be. They might as well take been Morris dancers or chimney sweeps. I don't call up this excuses what's going on here, merely I practice think it shows that A) what you read doesn't necessarily damage you for life, and B) children are very good at blocking out the things they don't get. I wish it wasn't similar this: merely the book was published in 1941 and is set up in 1882, so we're stuck with information technology.
And for a long time, as a child, this book was my favorite of the series. In many ways it's straight-up YA, though information technology was published so long agone. I'm astonished, now, at how much of the volume is focused on Laura being dissatisfied with her looks and struggling to be fashionable. Some of the little conversations about style are wonderful – Ma is constantly, gently disapproving of Laura'south newfangled notions, and Laura does a fair scrap of eye-rolling over Ma's old-fashionedness. The crowd of high school kids sledding together, jockeying for social position, experimenting with electricity, eying upwardly each other'south dress, the start hints at romance, Laura's burn-out with school, are absolutely timeless. The battles with Eliza Jane Wilder and Nellie Oleson are then frustrating and yet and then satisfying, and Laura is no affections. (I love that when she writes the mean poesy near Eliza Jane she excuses herself: "She meant only to please Ida, and perhaps, just a piffling, to show off what she could do." I know this feeling so well. Too – wow, her poesy GOES VIRAL! The innocence with which the teasing starts and the anonymous rapidity with which it tears through the town is all Laura'southward mistake and she knows it and feels terrible about it. It is fascinating to come across how bullying has not actually inverse much.)
Timeless, likewise, are moments such every bit Laura's struggle to do the fall housecleaning and discovering how some projects always take six times as long as you call up they volition: "It was amazing, too, how dirty they all got, while cleaning a firm that had seemed quite clean. The harder they worked, the dirtier everything became."
Quotations I like:
"There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home."
"This earthly life is a boxing," said Ma. "If information technology isn't 1 matter to debate with, information technology's another. Information technology always has been so, and it e'er will be. The sooner you make up your listen to that, the better off you are, and the more thankful for your pleasures."
"I don't encounter how anybody can be prepared for anything," said Laura. "When you expect something, and then something else always happens." [Ma responds:] "Even the conditions has more sense in it than you seem to requite it credit for. Blizzards come only in a blizzard country. You lot may exist well prepared to teach school and still non be a schoolteacher, but if you are not prepared, information technology's certain that you won't be."
SO TRUE.
This is also where I first read the Declaration of Independence. She quotes an awful lot of it.
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Now that nostalgia has go even more powerful, because book seven, Little Town on the Prairie, was the showtime i that I read alo
About two years ago I started rereading the Fiddling Business firm books. Information technology started as a whim afterward visiting Minnesota and driving by ane of the places where Laura Ingalls used to alive. I had read these books with my mother when I was a child, and I grew up with the popular Television testify based on the series, so there was a hefty dose of nostalgia whenever I reread one of the books.Now that nostalgia has get even more powerful, because volume seven, Lilliputian Town on the Prairie, was the start i that I read aloud to my mother. My mom suffers from brain cancer and has trouble communicating, but she was so delighted to hear these stories over again! She smiled and laughed, and enjoyed looking at the illustrations of life on the prairie.
Little Town takes place in De Smet, South Dakota, when Laura was xv. She wants to study hard then she can earn a teacher's certificate and help pay for her blind sister, Mary, to get to college. Laura gets her first taste of adulthood when she gets a task working every bit a seamstress in town, and she besides gets attending from a boyfriend named Almanzo Wilder. The stories are by and large sweet and charming, with the exception of mean Nellie Oleson and a bad teacher. Luckily Pa and Ma always have some wisdom and comfort to give.
Overall this was a joy to read, and I was happy to again share this story with my mother.
Favorite Quote
"This earthly life is a battle," said Ma. "If it isn't one thing to debate with it'southward another. Information technology has ever been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and the more thankful for your pleasures."
How would you similar to work in town, Laura?
When Mary lost her sight, she lost all hope of continuing her education. A kindly reverend tells the Ingalls family of a college for the blind. It goes without question that Mary will attend the seven years of school.
Now, the Ingalls family desperately needs money to cover school costs for Mary. Laura takes upwards work in town - sewing buttons of all things. While she hates it, she wants Mary to go to college far mor. The Ingalls family unit's crops are set u
How would you like to piece of work in town, Laura?
When Mary lost her sight, she lost all hope of continuing her education. A kindly reverend tells the Ingalls family of a college for the blind. It goes without question that Mary will attend the seven years of school.
Now, the Ingalls family badly needs coin to cover school costs for Mary. Laura takes upwardly work in town - sewing buttons of all things. While she hates it, she wants Mary to become to college far mor. The Ingalls family unit'southward crops are gear up upon by great swarms of pests.
And, to tiptop it all, Eliza Jane (Laura's futurity sister-in-constabulary) teaches their one-room schoolhouse - and she's terrible at it. No bailiwick, belittling students and extreme favoritism. Fifty-fifty Laura cannot stand her. When Eliza Jane unjustly punishes Carrie, Laura escalates until she is thrown out of school.
Laura gets the last express joy. She pens this verse form and publishes information technology in her autobiographical novel - for thousands of children to read and call back:
Going to school is lots of fun,
From laughing we have gained a ton,
We laugh until we have a hurting,
At Lazy, Lousy, Lizy Jane.
She is my petty-revenge goals.
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As a teacher, I pay attending to the creation of things lthere ike a spelling bee, where simple prairie people struggle in a competition to spell words no 1 volition ever utilize, something that all the same happens in the Sabbatum and ACT. To be" civilized" is to know big obscure words! They attend public debates about topics such "Who was a greater man: Lincoln or Washington?" Laura delivers a kind of summary of American history that ign9res the fact that they have displaced Native Americans entirely.
They report the Constitution in school, which is inspiring on one level, but equally they see it, it is serving the white folks, of grade. Ma says she hates Indians, and (saint) Pa (never criticized past Laura), participates in an appalling minstrel show, Pa in black face. School and church and Literary Society divide white settlers from the savages (the Indians, never much mentioned here).
Then okay, I am non giving the tale a complete pass for all that, only I don't think it is a consummate contradiction to say the 1888 Ingalls family is still pretty sweetness and mannerly, over all. Laura earns her teaching document at fifteen (!) and is asked out sledding past her dreamy future husband Almanzo Wilder. She, no saint, gets in trouble for writing a verse form criticizing her time to come sister-in-police, her terrible teacher. She gets a job working as a seamstress in boondocks to put her blind sis Mary through college. I know, I know what I have said, but I still found a lot of it charming and fascinating in all its ethnographic-level detail. I like Laura and this family unit pretty well in spite of all their (historical) faults.
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Minstrel show? Lunatic fringe? One-half-wit? 23-twelvemonth sometime Almanzo slithering around 15-year old Laura?
And why is Ma then great on Laura condign a teacher? Information technology seems to exist a 1-year-of-teaching-and-then-go-married sort of enterprise. Why even carp?
However, equally much equally
Little Town on the Prairie has been an interesting and educational reading experience, I take also been rather frustrated and fifty-fifty at times a trifle bored with and by some if not much of Laura Ingalls Wilder's featured and presented text. For honestly, since I accept always found Mary Ingalls much more than personally relatable and more engaging than her sister and main protagonist Laura (at least to and for me), having Mary leave for college and then basically pretty well disappear from the narrative of Piddling Boondocks on the Prairie (except for occasional references to her and that Mary is seemingly settling in well at and also much enjoying her college experience), aye indeed, this certainly has made Laura Ingalls Wilder's narrative not as immediate and considerably less personally engaging, not enough for me to not have enjoyed reading Petty Town on the Prairie but certainly enough to take some of the shine off of my reading joy and to but consider Little Town on the Prairie with but a high three star ranking. Because yes and definitely, as soon equally Mary leaves for college, my reading pleasure regarding Little Town on the Prairie certainly ended upward being diminished more than a trifle (and not to mention I also kind of retrieve that the shenanigans between Laura Ingalls, Nellie Oleson and schoolhouse instructor Eliza Wilder have felt a bit dragging and tedious for me personally).Oh and finally, with regard to that minstrel show episode in
Piddling Town on the Prairie (which is part of the town of De Smet'southward featured public entertainments) and where Charles Ingalls plays a significant role (and in blackness face up), while I take of form found said scene majorly uncomfortable from a modern point of view and perspective, considering that both in the 19th century and when Little Town on the Prairie was penned (in 1941) minstrel shows with actors pretending to exist African American were still seen every bit rather acceptable and not every bit something necessarily negative and degrading towards African Americans, I really do not consider that Laura Ingalls Wilder'southward words are to exist seen every bit deliberately narrow-minded and nasty here but simply a sign of the times, something that needs to exist discussed, no incertitude, just equally part of historical reality, equally something that in my opinion gives Little Town on the Prairie a problematic merely necessary portrait of reality. ...more
Laura had only started working in town, when she saw these two men get kicked out of a bar. They were sloshed, and singing an onetime church hymn. They went through the town punching holes in the screens of local businesses, and Laura thought this was funny.
Laura got in trouble when she got dwelling for thinking this was funny, only the terminal line of
Eleanor and Gwennie are both hither, but before we begin, I desire to tell MY favorite office... and I have to write it quietly because it's not quite advisable.Laura had but started working in town, when she saw these two men get kicked out of a bar. They were sloshed, and singing an erstwhile church building hymn. They went through the town punching holes in the screens of local businesses, and Laura thought this was funny.
Laura got in trouble when she got home for thinking this was funny, but the last line of the chapter read: "Pa looked at Laura, and his eyes were still twinkling. Laura knew that he didn't blame her for laughing."
Peradventure I'll add some more than things I thought well-nigh as a grownup at the end of the review, just for now, I call back the girls are set up to give their input. They're here talking well-nigh a baby-doll existence allergic to babies. Before I commencement typing the review, I might only await to see how this conversation plays out...
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Dad: Ok ladies, are you set to start the review?
... (They continue talking and counting...)
Dad: Ladies?
Ladies: Yeah?
Dad: You set?
Ladies: Aye!!!
Eleanor: Dad, are y'all writing equations?
Gwennie: He'southward writing too much!
Due east: Dad?
D: So lets talk about the volume.
E: The starting time matter I want to talk nigh was that the men were maxim, "I'm Tay Pay Pryor and I'm Drunk! I'thousand Tay Pay Pryor and I'1000 DRUNK!"
D: (not outloud): ...Huh... I judge that part stuck with her also. Information technology's weird that THAT'S the first part she mentioned, even though I don't think she understands what "drunk" is. ...Although, perhaps I explained information technology to her in the reading... (outloud): Hey El, do you know what information technology means to be drunk?
E: It means... ...I don't recollect... I don't call up, Daddy. And DON'T put that in the review, either. What? I don't recall what being drunk ways? OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooohhhhhhhh.... If you drink too much wine, or alcohol, information technology makes you a petty goofy - but goofy in a bad style.
D: Huh... you're correct. Did I tell you that?
E: I think then, yeah.
D: Did you inquire me almost it?
E: Yes. When we got to that role in the volume.
D: Well, what else did you like?
E: Well, maybe I can whisper in Gwennie'south ear, and so she can tell y'all! That way she tin assist with the review!!!! *Whispers something to Gwen.*
G: I liked that Laura was able to become a teacher!!!!
D: Exercise you want to talk about anything else in the book?
E: Laura felt nervous a bunch of times - when she started working in boondocks, when she was going to do mental math in front of the grade, when she was going to the Thanksgiving political party, when she was going to the birthday party, when she was going to the social, when she did the histories at the school exhibition...
D: That's an interesting observation, Eleanor. Nice job.
E: Cheers.
D: No, seriously. I'g non sure what to make of that, but I bet it's important. Let me also say, that I liked the race,
E: The quaternary of July race?
D: Yeah... and that they got a cat, and I thought it was interesting that Laura got suspended.
E: Why is it interesting? It wasn't skilful for Laura and Carrie.
D: I know it wasn't proficient for them.
E: Then why were yous saying it was interesting?
D: Mayhap because I e'er hear people talk about how good people were dorsum then, but it seems like fifty-fifty the all-time people got in trouble sometimes, you know?
Eastward: I idea information technology was interesting when Pa got a mouse in his hair!
D: What did it do again?
E: It Cutting off his hair, and fabricated TOOTH-MARKS in his head!!!
D: HA! That'south right! That was crazy!
Eastward: Daddy, why don't we ever have a mouse in our hair?
G: (very scared) Can we not talk about it? I don't want to get scared.
D: Don't worry, information technology won't happen to u.s.. Nosotros've got a cat that likes to catch anything that moves.
1000: Exercise cats eat mouses?
D: It's not "mouses." Practice you know how to say it?
E: YEAH! Practice you lot want me to tell Gwennie?
D: mm-hmmm
E: It'due south mice.
G: Ohhhh...
E: Can I talk about the Happy Days, quick? Actually, I desire to talk about how each walk they took seemed similar the last walk they would accept together.
D: Who?
Eastward: Mary and Laura.
D: Was that function sorry?
East: Aye.
D: Considering their time together was ending?
E: Mm-hmmmm...
D: Well, all good things come to an end. And, maybe that's a skilful identify to terminate this review too, because I think Gwennie'south getting bored. :)
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There are a couple of moments that make you lot terminate and think every bit an developed. One, Pa and some buddies in town put on a show wearing blackface, which is pretty cringeworthy. Two, as much as we all honey Laura, yous start to wonder near how Laura writes about herself--is she this good? That whole thing with Nellie and Miss Wilder kind of makes you lot wonder who really is the niggling person.
Some other matter, I love Almanzo every bit he begins to court Laura (mayhap I squealed more). Simply every bit Ma exclaims, Laura's but 15! And Almanzo'south 10 years older. I know at the time that was fine, but you could say the aforementioned for blackface. Of course, Laura doesn't marry him until she's xviii, and so I judge that makes information technology less creepy? Also making it less creepy, Laura's maturity--she even helps Ma and Pa get the money to ship Mary to college. Making information technology creepy again--Laura's innocence. She tin can't effigy out why Almanzo wants to walk her home after the church revival. We see more than of their dull courting in the next book (more than squeal-worthy moments).
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Book seven in the pop archetype Little House serial, has Laura growing into a young lady. She feels that the new instructor, Miss Wilder, is unfairly picking on her and her sister. Nellie Oleson seems to be thwarting Laura at every plough. Mary has left to go to a college for the blind, and Laura takes on a function time job to assist pay the expenses. The town is growing and with growth come new opportunities for socializing. Laura passes her examination to be
Digital audiobook performed by Cherry JonesBook vii in the popular classic Niggling House series, has Laura growing into a young lady. She feels that the new teacher, Miss Wilder, is unfairly picking on her and her sister. Nellie Oleson seems to be thwarting Laura at every turn. Mary has left to become to a college for the bullheaded, and Laura takes on a office time job to help pay the expenses. The town is growing and with growth come new opportunities for socializing. Laura passes her exam to be certified as a teacher, and dear begins to blossom.
I love this series for the way the pioneer spirit is portrayed and the strong family relationships.
THIS book, however, has a scene that is very uncomfortable for modern readers. The towns folks put on a minstrel bear witness, including performers in blackface. I know this is historically accurate to the period, just I just cringed reading about it.
Reddish Jones does a fine job narrating the audiobook. I especially like it when she sings the hymns or folk songs.
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But two more books to go, I think? I'm looking forwards to them. :)
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Mention of strangers swearing, and as well mention of the husband in a family unit Laura works for swearing while he and his married woman constantly argue.
Laura witnesses a
Once once again, a super sweet read. I found myself feeling so proud of Mary finally going to the college for the blind, and and then proud of Laura getting her teacher's certificate. And Almanzo. <three Of grade I also continued loving the historical context of the story.Only two more books to go, I think? I'm looking frontward to them. :)
Content Informational
Mention of strangers swearing, and also mention of the husband in a family Laura works for swearing while he and his wife constantly argue.
Laura witnesses a couple drunk men causing some destruction and singing. (She thinks it'south funny.)
Mention of a minstrel testify and a song from it is sung that repeatedly uses the tem "darkies". Pa himself is in the evidence and plays one of these characters and apparently wears black face.
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Something I failed to notice as a child, but that is more than credible to me every bit an adult, is how LIW managed to grow the books correct aslope Laura. It started dawning on me in The Long Wintertime, only I truly saw it here. In the early books, Laura had a child'south perception of things -- innocent, naive, and kittenish. She would non call back profound statements from her parents, so they exercise non "make them." But by now, at age fifteen, Laura is listening to her folks. And Ma and Pa are offer far deeper nuggets of wisdom and maturity to shape her character than ever before. Information technology's ingenious. It's a difficult thing for an author to exercise, because different the endless "serial" novels that feature eternally youthful heroines, Laura must abound up. She must wear hoop skirts. She must get her instructor'due south document to keep Mary in school. And... she gets to walk home with Almonzo Wilder.
The audience knows something Laura doesn't. That this handsome male child with the gorgeous horses who seems so much older and more mature than Laura will be her hubby one solar day. And that... lends a beautiful sweet to each pocket-sized gesture he gives her, fifty-fifty the innocent ride in the buggy that Laura idea gleefully, will make Nellie SO JEALOUS.
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Different many children'due south classics information technology has not anile well. It works well plenty for the inferior reader, but even young children these days know better than to call Native Americans 'cherry-red savages' and that for Ma to 'hate Indians' is hypocritical when they've claimed Indian land as their own, and when it was an I
I wanted to similar it, I actually did. But reading every bit an adult is very different to reading as a child. The innocence is stripped away, and nosotros now read with the benefit of experience and instruction.Different many children'southward classics information technology has not anile well. It works well enough for the junior reader, just fifty-fifty young children these days know better than to phone call Native Americans 'red savages' and that for Ma to 'hate Indians' is hypocritical when they've claimed Indian state every bit their own, and when it was an Indian who warned the white settlers of the impending Long Winter (previous book). 'Darkies' or greasepaint actors provide the entertainment during the winter nights.
There is a strong element of racial superiority running through the book. The Wilder and the other settlers are of the opinion that white, Christian people are naturally superior to the savage Indians and the darkies.
Ma is also quite sexist, and sadly a very typical product of her time and place. An excited Laura is advised to "attune your phonation...Recollect, 'Her voice was always gentle, low and soft, an excellent matter in a woman' ". Laura is scolded for non wearing her corsets, and Ma despairs of her ever being a lady.
The story moves slowly at offset merely starts to selection up when Mary goes to higher and Laura and Carrie become back to schoolhouse. The scenes at the school with Nellie and Miss Wilder were much more than exciting. It was nice to see Laura brandish anger, jealousy and resentment, perfectly natural human emotions. I felt though that there was too much effort by the writer to insert Christian morality into the book. Laura is frequently reprimanded by Ma, and it gets tiresome after a while. Vanity is a besetting sin and Laura has it drummed out of her. No human being can ever live up to Ma'south ideal. And Laura feels guilty about it. Ma seems to spend too much time worrying about what is acceptable and what isn't.
Laura holds her own in the rivalry with Nellie though her conflict with Miss Wilder is never actually resolved. The saving grace are the children. Laura is warm and funny and hostage, and her siblings and peers are just as interesting. Laura wants to get her teaching certificate and so that her income can help the family and with Mary'south higher fees. But always in the background is the knowledge that she'll only teach for a few years, that her real career will exist that of a Wife.
I can't help comparing Little Boondocks with Piddling Women, which was written but a few years before. Mrs March is a much more sensible and liberal woman and the March girls are much more spirited, ambitious and curious. Just and so that is fiction and this is partly fiction.
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Notes of note:
- I liked the conversation when Mary admitted that she w
I squeezed one more volume into 2012! The characters are the same as in all the books, of course--Pa is the greatest and a hero amid men, Ma is uptight and kind of racist, Laura is rebellious only good at centre. Everything is described in such loving detail. I practise feel like I should have reread The Long Winter before this i considering the relative plenty in LTotP is in such contrast to those poor people starving around the stove.Notes of note:
- I liked the conversation when Mary admitted that she was being good partly to show off. It actually made her more likable. I wonder if that really happened.
- Almanzo makes his motility on Laura! And she seems completely dislocated at first. That was beautiful. But she held up her end of the conversation. That'due south why we like her.
- It's interesting how shut the family was out of necessity. Like, they'd miss Pa when he was out working in boondocks all mean solar day. I approximate if you're used to being around someone 24/7, it's pretty strange when they're gone. And of grade, Mary went to higher and they were as well despondent to accept Christmas. It makes Laura's already understandable unhappiness at the crazy Brewsters' in the next book even more poignant(and Almanzo's kindness at bringing her dwelling every weekend fifty-fifty more touching).
- Related to the to a higher place, Laura and Carrie admittedly freaked out whenever they went into town. There were almost 20 students at the school! And not having a clue how to act at a party. What if they'd never moved to boondocks, every bit I'1000 sure a lot of people didn't? Who did those people marry?
- For someone who hated to sew, Ma sure did a damn good job of it. Can you imagine doing all that by hand? I'm sure a lot of women just ran effectually in large old sack dresses. Just Ma had a bit of upper-grade striving that makes Laura's contemptuousness of Nellie Oleson a fiddling funny, IMO.
- Adept Lord, the greasepaint. Progress is good.
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highlights:
-they get a cat!!
-mary goes away to college in an extremely pretty clothes
-almanzo wilder starts sniffing around
-they take enough to swallow
-it does not snowfall inside the house
-they go chickens
low points:
-miss wilder existence a real jerk. although, equally evidenced by laura'due south own teaching certificate, teachers were only tested on knowledge and not classroom-direction skills.
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highlights:
-they get a cat!!
-mary goes away to higher in an extremely pretty dress
-almanzo wilder starts sniffing around
-they take enough to eat
-it does non snow inside the firm
-they become chickens
low points:
-miss wilder existence a real jerk. although, every bit evidenced past laura's own education certificate, teachers were only tested on knowledge and not classroom-management skills.
-pa participating in a racist literary minstrel show. i love garth williams but i cringed so hard when i saw that illustration.
-ma continuing to hate indians
-i'chiliad really worried about carrie's headaches
-kinda bummed me out that even in the 1880s Laura was looking in the mirror and wishing she could be tall and willowy similar Nellie Oleson.
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Boondocks on the Prairie
I read the whole Fiddling House series every bit a kid. I would similar to reread some of them and this i is ane of my all fourth dimension faves from the series.
I adored the whole fiddling house family unit and loved Laura'southward determination to become a instructor. I loved everything about the serial and this book, fifty-fifty Nellie and her "name cards". I notwithstanding get a smile on my face up from these books fifty-fifty after all this
"At that place is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to become habitation."― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Boondocks on the Prairie
I read the whole Little House serial equally a kid. I would like to reread some of them and this one is 1 of my all time faves from the series.
I adored the whole little house family unit and loved Laura's conclusion to become a teacher. I loved everything about the series and this book, even Nellie and her "name cards". I even so get a smile on my face up from these books even subsequently all this time.
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*Alarm* This volume has the only offensive scene in the whole series that I can remember. Pa performs dressed in blackface and is referred to equally "Darky." Considering these books are based on the author'due south real life in the 1800s, I tin look the other way. As a child I just recollect thin
Reread from childhood. I loved it and so and I loved it at present. It's not my favorite from the serial, but this is where Laura and Almanzo started dating and is super cute. It's a light read which I really needed correct now.*Warning* This book has the only offensive scene in the whole serial that I can remember. Pa performs dressed in greasepaint and is referred to as "Darky." Considering these books are based on the writer's real life in the 1800s, I can await the other way. Every bit a kid I just recollect thinking he was dressed as some weird clown.
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Almanzo starts to show an interest, which Laura is too young to understand. It's especially interesting to spotter her parents' responses to this. Ma is not happy. Laura i
From what I understand, Nellie Oleson in the books was a composite of two or three girls (imagine there being multiples of the nasty piddling creature!), so the Nellie here may not be the same as the Nellie nosotros've met before. Whoever she is, she stinks. (Nellie rhymes with smelly.) And she's evil. (Witch rhymes with something else.)Almanzo starts to prove an interest, which Laura is as well young to empathise. It's especially interesting to watch her parents' responses to this. Ma is not happy. Laura is too young to be courted. But Pa knows a good man when he sees one, and he isn't going to do his half-pint the disservice of chasing this i abroad.
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- The Ingallses repeatedly consume tomatoes with saccharide and cream as if this is a normal matter, and non, in fact, disgusting
- The uncomfortable blackface minstrel chip, hey-o!
- The continued character bump-off of Eliza Jane.
The last one is a item sticking point for me. Goddamn it, does Laura detest Eliza Jane, and goddamn information technology does it seem completely unjustified. She hates her because she'southward..um, too squeamish?
Amend than the torrid slug of The Long Wintertime, only information technology has three major points against information technology:- The uncomfortable blackface minstrel chip, hey-o!
- The continued character bump-off of Eliza Jane.
The terminal i is a particular sticking point for me. Goddamn it, does Laura hate Eliza Jane, and goddamn it does it seem completely unjustified. She hates her because she's..um, too nice? (Won't hit the kids.) But then she hates her cause she'south...not nice enough and punishes Laura'due south sister in a way that wasn't violent (in a time period when teachers routinely striking children, which Laura seems to think is totally sik af.) And in a later book she hates Eliza Jane cause she wants to help her brother organise his nuptials? At to the lowest degree Nellie was a back-stabbing gossiping then and and so. Eliza was simply an inexperienced teacher whom Laura seemed to turn on because of misogyny. Ugh.
As well why tf is Carrie dying of Victorian Novel Disease? At least nosotros know that Mary had an illness (perhaps scarlet fever, mayhap meningitis) and that's why she's blind, but Carrie is just..unspecified weakness. Possibly it'south vitamin deficiency. Probably got rickets during that long wintertime.
I'1000 more of a fan of the earlier books when they weren't and so fixated on wooing Almanzo's sexy horses with Almanzo as a secondary prize, and constantly talking virtually studying ("ooh I know what'd be a fun thing to do, a spelling and grammar competition!" - said admittedly no one.) I know, information technology was the 1880s and you had to find enjoyment wherever you lot tin, but yikes.
edit: oh god I forgot the fleck where they interrupted the story to recite the entire declaration of independence, which I skipped over considering I'm not American and I don't care. Fuck you lot, Rose Wilder Lane!
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Plus I embarrass myself by my reaction to Almanzo'due south appearances. What a dreamboat! :)
When I was younger, I distinctly recollect not enjoying the afterward books in this series too because Laura grew upwards and the events weren't equally exciting. Merely now, as I re-read information technology, I eagerly proceed reading and lavish over the events of her young developed years. I love these books, every single ane, every historic period, aspect, and adventure of Laura's life. Information technology's just and so exciting.Plus I embarrass myself by my reaction to Almanzo'due south appearances. What a dreamboat! :)
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Laura is now a young lady, and is getting closer and closer to becoming a teacher so that she can help support Mary, who leaves for college in this book. Laura develops friendships and starts to abound into herself, attracting the attention of her future husband. I enjoyed getting more details of life in town, from the altogether parties to the Literary meetings, from the current fashions to the autograph books and proper name cards that go so popular. Laura experiences so many tremendous changes in this book, but we are shown that even greater changes volition exist coming in the side by side installment.
I can't believe I'yard nearing the end of Laura's story. Only 2 books left in the series!
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Why put the kitten on the cover if she's barely featured?
Remember when Laura slapped Mary beyond the confront, why hasn't she slapped Nellie Olsen?
Hmm, this minstrel show is really solidifying that this will exist the cease of this series for me. A random string of thoughts I had while reading:
Why put the kitten on the embrace if she's barely featured?
Remember when Laura slapped Mary across the face, why hasn't she slapped Nellie Olsen?
Hmm, this minstrel show is actually solidifying that this will be the end of this serial for me. ...more
Continuing the autobiographical sharing of her life in pioneer times Laura brings her loyal readers (by and large of the female persuasion) to the year afterwards THE LONG and very hard Winter. Her life as a town girl includes miserable hours in the school house run past Miss Eliza Jane Wilder--an inept and unfair teacher. Laura's social nemesis from prior stories, darling Nellie Olson, shows up again to torment her in non-academic means. Navigating social mores and coed activ
"A Boondocks and a Young Daughter Grow upwards"Standing the autobiographical sharing of her life in pioneer times Laura brings her loyal readers (mostly of the female persuasion) to the year subsequently THE LONG and very hard Wintertime. Her life every bit a town daughter includes miserable hours in the school firm run past Miss Eliza Jane Wilder--an inept and unfair teacher. Laura's social nemesis from prior stories, darling Nellie Olson, shows upwards again to torment her in not-bookish means. Navigating social mores and coed activities proves a challenge to outspoken Laura, who must sacrifice tomboyish habits to experiment with feminine garb and gear. Growing upwardly was never easy--and then or now!
But our teenage protagonist struggles with increasingly adult concerns such as taking a part time chore to help finance college for Mary, her blind older sister. Sacrifices for Family are not so hard in theory, merely Laura must report diligently to earn her teaching document, so she may continue to bring in extra income—and keep her nimble listen ever agile with her writing and presentations in Literary Societies. Keeping up with her more sophisticated peers she wrestles with hidden corsets and public calling cards. Just will handsome Almanzo Wilder ever take her seriously? Half Pint, as Pa calls her, will flower like a wild prairie flower in the mid teen historic period years. (Mary is often away at higher, while the life of their little sisters is oftentimes neglected.) Thus the narrative revolves more effectually Laura's coming of age as the trivial boondocks of De Smet as well blooms in an unlikely place—where Laura gradually discovers what her life is meant to be: living for others--dear to her heart..
January 6, 2014
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