{"id":25,"date":"2007-02-26T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/26\/did-beth-really-die\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T20:54:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:54:47","slug":"did-beth-really-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/26\/did-beth-really-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Beth Really Die?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here in my kitchen trying to figure out what more to say about &#8220;Little Women,&#8221; it struck me that there\u00c2\u00a0really is nothing more to say about it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But, I guess I&#8217;ll say that\u00c2\u00a0Beth did not die.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0She gets reincarnated as\u00c2\u00a0Amy&#8217;s daughter who is\u00c2\u00a0sick just like her aunt was.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Where does the circle of life end and a new one\u00c2\u00a0begin?\u00c2\u00a0 Alcott is tapping into the resevoir of human experience that makes us see ourselves in successive generations.\u00c2\u00a0 This reflection of humanity proposes to stave off\u00c2\u00a0the inevitable act of dying.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Postponing death reaffirms living.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Alcott keeps Beth around because she\u00c2\u00a0calculates it ensures her immortality.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here in my kitchen trying to figure out what more to say about &#8220;Little Women,&#8221; it struck me that there\u00c2\u00a0really is nothing more to say about it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But, I guess I&#8217;ll say that\u00c2\u00a0Beth did not die.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0She gets reincarnated as\u00c2\u00a0Amy&#8217;s daughter who is\u00c2\u00a0sick just like her aunt was.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Where does the circle of life end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}