English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Little Women, Political Philosophy, Openair
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Laura ingalls wilder, little house on the prairie. Like most domestic novels, this one is written in the realist tradition. Ingalls wilder based her novels on her memories of a pioneer childhood, even using the actual names of her family members. Each novel in the series focuses on a particular location where the ingalls family settled, often briefly, as part of a restless and nomadic lifestyle of moving from place to place in search of financial security. The first novel, entitled little house in the big woods, features the. Ingalls family comfortably ensconced in wisconsin, surrounded by extended family. He supports his family primarily by hunting and trapping, doing some farm work when and where he can. He can build a house with his own hands and rarely needs to rely on anyone else for help (hence his willingness to move away from the support system of his extended family in wisconsin).
