How does Jo win a prize of $100?

While she is waiting for the lecture to begin, a boy shows her a newspaper. It has a sensationalist story that Jo finds silly. She sees that the newspaper is offering a one hundred dollar prize for the best sensationalist story. Excited, Jo writes a story, submits it, and wins.
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Why did Jo give Laurie a ring?

At one point, a young Jo swoops down on one knee and presents Laurie with a ring symbolizing their friendship, one that he keeps wearing into adulthood even after she has rejected him.
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How did Jo raise money?

There was a market for hair to make wigs and hairpieces.) Jo's family is surprised by her sacrifice, but Jo explains that she wanted to do something to help, and this was an honest way of earning money on her own. Jo describes her experience at the hair salon.
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What does Jo March do for a living?

Jo eventually loses her job as Aunt March's companion to Amy, but goes on to work as a governess to the children of a family friend, Mrs. Kirke, at a boarding house in New York. In this case, Jo's employment continues to help her take care of her family, especially her ailing sister Beth.
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What gift did Jo receive on Christmas *?

Answer: ans 1 the girls give marmee her gift glovs from mg, slippers from jo handkerchief from beth and the bottle of cilogne from emy.
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What gift did Beth give mother?

For Christmas, Beth gets her mother, who Beth and her sisters call "Marmee," handkerchiefs on which Beth herself has embroidered "Mother," instead of "M. March" or "M.M.," because Beth's sister Meg has the same initials, and Beth wanted only Marmee to use them.
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Why did Jo Amy and Laurie go to the river?

When Fred Vaughn finally proposes, Amy turns him down because she does not want to marry for money. Amy and Laurie find out about Beth's death at nearly the same time, and Laurie goes to comfort Amy. They begin to spend much time together and fall in love. One day, Laurie and Amy are boating on a river.
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Is Beth or Amy the youngest?

Amy is the youngest sister and baby of the family, she's 12 when the story begins.
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Did Jo ever love Laurie?

This confusion is easily reflected in Jo. So did Jo love Laurie? Yes. And she always will love Laurie.
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Who is the best Jo March?

3. 'Little Women' (1933) Without a doubt, Katherine Hepburn is film's greatest Jo March. Hepburn plays her with playful, temperamental boyishness and delivers every New England-accented line like the crack of a whip.
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Why did Amy marry Laurie?

Laurie ended up with Amy because Alcott decided to make Amy Laurie's romantic partner. It could've been the way that Alcott, often a writer of more scandalous stories, wanted to bring in a little scandal to this otherwise moral story.
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Why didnt Jo marry Laurie?

Laurie, who Jo positions alternately as her brother and as her own masculine self, betrays Jo when he proposes marriage to her: She would much rather that he marry either Meg or Beth (imagine Laurie and Beth together! a truly absurd idea, but Jo floats it out there!), thus preserving her ideal family structure.
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Does Jo marry Frederick?

At the end of Little Women, Jo doesn't marry Laurie, her childhood friend. Instead, she marries Friedrich Bhaer, an older German professor she meets while living in New York. However, Jo and Professor Bhaer's “happily ever after” is sealed quite cinematically: With a kiss, in the rain, under an umbrella.
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What is the age difference between Laurie and Amy?

I know the age difference between Amy and Laurie is only three or four years, but their love and marriage would seem more normal to me if Laurie was ten years older yet they simply hadn't had much interaction when Amy was a kid.
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Why does Amy Call Laurie lazy Laurence?

Amy starts her lecture by telling Laurie that she and her cousin Flo call him "Lazy Laurence." She says that she despises him, because he's rich and has every opportunity of being happy and useful, but instead he's just wasting his time and money being miserable.
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How did Laurie know all the March sisters?

Answer: Laurie confirmed the names of the March sisters when Jo visits him and she started talking about her sisters. Explanation: "Little Women" by narrates the story of the March family and their neighboring families, especially the Laurence family who lived just right next door.
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What is the age difference between Jo and Professor Bhaer?

This is what you need to know: Winona Ryder was 23 when she made the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. Gabriel Byrne, who played her character Jo's ultimate love interest Professor Friedrich Bhaer, was 44. Age gaps like that used to be shockingly common in Hollywood. Richard Gere was 40 when he made Pretty Woman.
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Was Laurie a real person?

Laurie might have been based off a real person.

Although this hasn't been confirmed, it's been surmised that Laurie's real life counterpart was Polish musician Ladislas Wisniewski, who Alcott met in 1865 in Europe, three years before Little Women was published.
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Do Laurie and Jo kiss in the book?

I figured she would have never have entertained the possibility of actually having them kiss in the novel. But lo and behold, I was amazed to recently discover (and I'll admit to squeeing just a little bit) that in an early manuscript of the proposal scene in Little Women, Alcott did have Laurie kissing Jo!
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Why is Meg called Daisy?

Daisy and Demi are the twin children of Meg and John Brooke. They are loosely named for their parents – "Daisy" is a nickname for Margaret, which is Meg's full name and her mother's first name also; "Demi" is short for "Demijohn," making Demi the namesake of his father John Brooke.
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Who is the prettiest March sister?

Meg, short for Margaret, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. She's also the most typical of the sisters – we think of her as everything that you might expect a nineteenth-century American girl from a good family to be.
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What is Marmee's real name?

In the novel, the elder Margaret March does generally go by Marmee, just as Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother, did.
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Why is Laurie so rude to Meg?

She is a bit embarrassed about the luxury of her attire, but she enjoys playing the role of a fashionable girl. Laurie is at the party and reprimands Meg for being so frivolous. His criticism makes Meg regret letting her friends dress her.
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Did Amy marry Laurie in the book?

Amy becomes the family's golden child, heading to Europe to study art and eventually becoming wife to Laurie, Jo's best friend and the man everyone—the characters in the novel and readers poring over the text—thought Jo would marry. Don't miss what matters.
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How did Beth become seriously ill?

In the film — based on Louisa May Alcott's debut novel — the third March daughter Beth catches scarlet fever when she goes to care for the impoverished Hummel family, whose baby is sick from the disease (also called scarlatina).
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