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A review by rebelbelle13
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.0
I am consistently amazed at how the Ingalls family and so many others lived through so many hardships over 150 years ago with such positivity and enthusiasm. Charles Ingalls is always happy to tackle the haying, care for the animals or building of just about anything. It doesn't matter how hard the task is or how long it takes, he always does it with a smile on his face and sings afterwards. Not even the children complain very much, even when they are bored and starving. They are happy for what they do have and it's a stark contrast to the way children and even adults are today. The way that the Ingalls family and the rest of the townsfolk of De Smet made it through the ridiculously long winter is truly a wonder.
This was one of my favorite Little House stories as a child, and it is still a wonderful, engaging story, even today. There are a few things I picked up on as an adult that rub me the wrong way, however. Almanzo Wilder always seems to have plenty of food. Whenever Charles visits them across the road, they are always having pancakes, bacon and syrup, even when the Ingalls family is surviving solely on old potatoes and coarse brown bread. They never offer to share. Almanzo won't give up his seed, even when folks in the town are starving, but he goes out into the driving blizzard, risking his life to guilt someone else out of their seed, when they were saving it for the same purpose- to sow in the spring. He seems awfully selfish to me.
All in all, I do love the way that Laura's way of life is preserved in these stories, as well as the songs they used to sing and the food they used to eat and how they would go to school. It is a completely different world compared to today, and I'm always happy to lose myself in the pages of the past.
This was one of my favorite Little House stories as a child, and it is still a wonderful, engaging story, even today. There are a few things I picked up on as an adult that rub me the wrong way, however. Almanzo Wilder always seems to have plenty of food. Whenever Charles visits them across the road, they are always having pancakes, bacon and syrup, even when the Ingalls family is surviving solely on old potatoes and coarse brown bread. They never offer to share. Almanzo won't give up his seed, even when folks in the town are starving, but he goes out into the driving blizzard, risking his life to guilt someone else out of their seed, when they were saving it for the same purpose- to sow in the spring. He seems awfully selfish to me.
All in all, I do love the way that Laura's way of life is preserved in these stories, as well as the songs they used to sing and the food they used to eat and how they would go to school. It is a completely different world compared to today, and I'm always happy to lose myself in the pages of the past.