Alice s Three Gifts By Louisa May Alcott - 1904 Words

â€Å"It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them† (Alcott). A woman by the name of Louisa May Alcott said this in one of her books titled Marjorie s Three Gifts. When Alcott mentions this, she brings up the idea that everyday objects can be beautiful, and that it depends on how you look at them. This difference in the way people view everyday objects is the difference between just walking past something or stopping to admire the object. There are many ways to view beauty, and because of this, many people do not see beauty in the same things. When it comes to myself, this is also true. I am able to see beauty differently than others because I see beauty in a unique way. I view beauty as different areas of the body being able to detect different features of an object and therefore allowing people to feel pleasure from a variety of objects as a result. Many people have written articles about the varying views of beauty. One example of this is Richard Monastersky’s article called â€Å"A Billion Years of Beauty† that talks about beauty in history. In this article, Monastersky specifically talks about how some people view a dinosaur skeleton as beautiful. He also talks about the process of replicating fossils due to the inability of being able to take the original fossil due to their location. People went back and forth discussing if the replica of the fossil was art because of the fossil itself, or if the fossil was art because of theShow MoreRelatedA Feminist Study of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women5846 Words   |  24 PagesA FEMINIST STUDY OF LOUSIA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Little Women and the Feminist Imagination 3 Chapter 2 Jo March: A Woman Ahead of her Times 10 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 19 Introduction If the first woman God ever made was strongRead MoreChildrens Literature13219 Words   |  53 PagesChildrens texts written by child or adolescent authors, such as Daisy Ashfords The Young Visiters(1919) or Anne Franks Het Achterhuis (1947; The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952), are exceptions to the rule. Many famous childrens authors, such as Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll, produced family magazines as children, and bits of their juvenilia were reworked into published childrens books. More often, childrens books result from the collaboration or direct inspiration of a specific child or group