Children of Jo

"All we have to do is plant the seed and believe that it will take root in a good land" .. The last part of the Alcott trilogy, published in 1886, traces the lives of the March daughters, alongside the boys – and their sisters – who grew up in her school, although some of them found a path far removed from the old Pumphill. And like the previous part - Little Men - the author depicts the lives of her heroes after ten years have passed, and the young boys and girls have become young men and women trying to carve their paths and get to know the world in their own way, but they still need the care of Mother Baer and her advice to stay on the right path, and to succeed in passing the tests that life showers them with, supported by their trust in the safe haven they turn to in every hardship. Mrs. Jo Baer realized that her own test was not easy either after her children, as she calls them, grew up. She, like them, needs patience, wisdom, and insight to be able to give sound advice to them, knowing full well the weight of responsibility on her shoulders, and realizing that she would not have succeeded in this difficult task without her husband’s and her family's faith in her and her mission. Thus, Jo strove with all her might to plant the seed, do her best to water and care for it, and believe that it will take root in a good land, and after that all she has is patience to see the fruit of her work, sweet and palatable, like most of its fruits, or bitter mother that is not hoped for good from. And her trees bore fruit, and she reaped the reward of her effort. After that, all that remained was for "the music to stop, the lamps to be turned off, and the curtain to fall on the lives of the March family."