{"id":11,"date":"2007-02-19T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/19\/beth-and-meg\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T21:54:22","slug":"beth-and-meg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/19\/beth-and-meg\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth and Meg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I was shocked in class today that so many people hate Beth and feel that she is insignificant.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I think she is a large part of the story and is an interesting character.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Beth represents another side of Jo. She is her mysterious, quiet side.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Beth may not be outgoing and strong like the rest, but Alcott would not have included her in the book if she wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so important in relaying the story.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Beth is childlike and innocent, and I think that is why we all can relate to her.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Every single one of us in this class was like that at one point during childhood, so to say that you cannot relate to her is wrong.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I think that sometimes we all would like to go back to seeing the world through \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because there is so much out there that is devastating, but to a child, things are not so complex. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">For me, I think that the reason why people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really care for Meg and Amy is that they are too worldly with their thinking.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>They are both shallow, and care too much about what other people think and want, instead of following their own hearts.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Meg does redeem herself when she goes against what society would expect of her by marrying the poor Mr. Brooke for love, not money.<span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Amy continues with her selfish ways by marrying Laurie for his money.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked in class today that so many people hate Beth and feel that she is insignificant.\u00c2\u00a0 I think she is a large part of the story and is an interesting character.\u00c2\u00a0 Beth represents another side of Jo. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/19\/beth-and-meg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}