A different perspective

I have loved the story "Little Women" since grade school when I read it for the first time. I have the movie and watch it often; the book I have read enough times to be on my second copy. I wore the first one out. Something about the story speaks to my heart in a way that I just can't explain.

I just finished reading it again last night. No surprises it was the same wonderful story with the same moral as all the other times I have read it. Every time I take up this book I find something different in the characters that I learn from. This time it was the Christian message that stayed with me. I never really thought of this book as a "Christian" story. I realized that the message was there and that it was common for the time the story was written for the moral of the story to be "good" and "Christian" in nature but never really paid too close attention to it.

The message is written well into the work and it is not blunt like "Left Behind" or other popular books today. The reader absorbs the message without feeling like they have been preached at or hit on the head with a bible. I think this type of writing has a far greater chance of being heard then those over the top preaching stories.

The other thing that occurred to me is that the movie that I have enjoyed so many times in the past has left that message out almost in it's entirety. The March family has almost a socialist bend to them. I had grasped that something was not right with the values of the March's but didn't put my finger on it until I read this time.

It amazes me how they can make a movie out of a book and leave the main message of the movie out. It seems to me what they did was to make the story politically Correct. PC is not always the right choice to make. In fact it is almost never the correct way to go.

"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" is coming out this year. I saw the teaser trailer and was surprise to see that the professor doesn't like to be disturbed and that the house in the country has many rules. That is the exact opposite of the book. This makes me wonder how many other things in the story they are going to change or leave out. In the "The Chronicles of Narnia" C.S. Lewis does the same type of wonderful job of putting the Christian message into his stories. I have never felt preached at when reading the stories but the message is very clear. I hope they don't take all of the heart and soul out of his work too.

I would bet Ms. Alcott would not be happy with what was done to her work. I know I would not be. I still like the movie it is enjoyable on multiple levels but I am sad to realize what that thing I have been missing all this time is.