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Little Women chronicles
Call Me By Your Name details
the love story of Elio and Oliver, two young men who spend a summer together on the Italian Riviera and develop a bond that shapes their view of love for the rest of their lives. Elio is a precocious 17-year-old who spends summers with his family in their villa on the Italian Riviera. Oliver is a brilliant and handsome 24- year-old post-doctoral scholar from America who spends a summer in the mid-1980s at Elio's villa. Elio's parents select Oliver to live with them for six weeks as part of an annual fellowship that they offer to young scholars, with the purpose of helping them revise a manuscript for publication and aiding Elio's father—who is himself an academic—with his paperwork. Call Me By Your Name is a story about obsessive love, the passage of time, and life-defining memories.
approximately fifteen years in the life of the
March family. It comes largely from the
experiences of the family of the author Louisa
May Alcott. The Marches live in Concord,
Massachusetts, and the book begins at
Christmas, 1861, during the Civil War. Part I of
the book covers just over one year.The March
family is relatively poor, though they can still
afford one servant and they often share
whatever they have with others less fortunate.
Mr. March is a philosopher and teacher. He
serves as a Chaplain in the Union Army until he
gets ill. After being nursed to health by his wife,
he returns to Concord and becomes a minister. A
kind but unworldly man, he lost the family
property trying to help a friend, which brought
poverty upon the family for some time. He leads
the family quietly, urging Christian morality
and kindness. Mrs. March, is a strong, kind, and
moral character. She advocates a healthy
balance of work and play and urges her
daughters to marry good, kind men. She is the rock of the family. When she leaves to help nurse her husband, she must later return to nurse her daughter Beth, and she comforts the girls through many challenges.