Mary and Caroline's relationship reminds me so much of me and my mother. She passed away when I was 17 and watching Little House always reminds me of her because we used to watch it together. Thanks for uploading these episodes. :)
I cant help but cry. OMG Little House will always be my favorite televison series. This is real TV. This crap on tv now is all about people backstabbing each other. I have found myself going back and watching retro tv.
Yes but I wandered why not in one episode they didn’t introduce a black man or woman in the acting it’s black ppl didn’t yet exist in America that time I found it a bit racist some how
@@Zoubirking-1970 I dont know how many episodes you have watched, but they had several black people in the show. On top of my head I remember episodes about black kid, a boxer, a doc, an explosives delivery guy, then of course Hester Sue.
Mary is my favourite character and I think she would have deserved a little more attention. I know Laura is the main character and that Mary is supposed to be the quiet always studying type, but somehow she makes a very good contrast for Laura and I think they should have built more on the relationship between the two of them. This is a very good episode, though and I love the show. Its like one big guideline for how to act or not to act in life, for children and adults alike.
I think you're mixing up two episodes here...What Mary writes in this episode is a declaration to Miss Beadle why she cannot take the exam in defiance to what her mother had ordered her to do. The girl who writes the portrait of her mother is Laura - I think in one of the very first episodes - and she has only written a few sentences and feels embarrassed to to own up to that, but she goes before the class and "reads" an essay she has not really written from that sheet of paper.
Yeah - she did everything right to own up for the fire, clean the barn, work for the bool, and then also tell the teacher the truth....one felt so sorry in the end, because obviously she did not mean to start the fire... in those days it must have been hard with everyone living so cramped....so one can understand her wanting to be alone to do what she was right ... which was of all things studying !
Yes true nut my complaint was towards the mother setting the restriction in the first place not disobey her mother . For a woman to have succeeded at anything besides teaching an sewing was a marvel. I just happen to think she should of allowed Mary to have succeeded or failed in the end it was her lesson to learn not her mothers...
Well, at that time, obedience like Mary's would not have been "beyond reason" - you were expected to obey your parents and that was that - no questioning as to whether the parents' demands were reasonable. Interestingly, the whole thing seems also to be a matter of bad timing, as Caroline has second thoughts about forbidding Mary the exam, given how Mary always liked to prove herself academically and that it would have been hard, if not impossible, to get a dictionary like that by her own means. The point was that she was unsure of herself and went to the preacher for advice, and he gave her that peace about not reversing the punishment, as the children would then also expect it to be reversed in other cases. The problem was not that Caroline did not listen to her heart here; she saw that Mary was trying to make amends on her own and her reversing the punishment would not have shaken her authority with her daughters. (*Commentary*: That was also one of the episodes where Charles, the actual moral anchor of the family, was not present and Michael Landon took this as an opportunity to show how important HIS character was, that Caroline could not really make a right decision without him!!) However, I always thought that the preacher's verdict also contained a moral lesson for Caroline, that she had spoken in anger when issuing the punishment, and that she should never speak in anger in such cases, because she might be stuck with words that she wished she had not said.
Yes but I was wandering not in one single episode they introduced a black man or women acting it’s like black ppl didn’t exist in America yet that era i found it bit racist some how
Well I find this episode totally unreal in fact the pressure put upon Mary was wrong wrong wrong. Her Mum should of gone with her gut on this one. the whole plot was set up in the first scene when the mum said there were older students that basically need the book more than she did..Not to mention the preacher, that whole thing of parents never being wrong even when they are oh man wrong wrong wrong lol thx for the upload !!!!
Mary and Caroline's relationship reminds me so much of me and my mother. She passed away when I was 17 and watching Little House always reminds me of her because we used to watch it together. Thanks for uploading these episodes. :)
I love my mother....!!!❤
I loved my mum so much. 15 years has now passed since she died.
I cant help but cry. OMG Little House will always be my favorite televison series. This is real TV. This crap on tv now is all about people backstabbing each other. I have found myself going back and watching retro tv.
Yes but I wandered why not in one episode they didn’t introduce a black man or woman in the acting it’s black ppl didn’t yet exist in America that time I found it a bit racist some how
@@Zoubirking-1970 I dont know how many episodes you have watched, but they had several black people in the show. On top of my head I remember episodes about black kid, a boxer, a doc, an explosives delivery guy, then of course Hester Sue.
Mary is my favourite character and I think she would have deserved a little more attention. I know Laura is the main character and that Mary is supposed to be the quiet always studying type, but somehow she makes a very good contrast for Laura and I think they should have built more on the relationship between the two of them. This is a very good episode, though and I love the show. Its like one big guideline for how to act or not to act in life, for children and adults alike.
I don't forget the story❤
I also remember this work.
Mary wrote a reflection on her mother on a blank sheet of paper.
I think you're mixing up two episodes here...What Mary writes in this episode is a declaration to Miss Beadle why she cannot take the exam in defiance to what her mother had ordered her to do. The girl who writes the portrait of her mother is Laura - I think in one of the very first episodes - and she has only written a few sentences and feels embarrassed to to own up to that, but she goes before the class and "reads" an essay she has not really written from that sheet of paper.
I like to see that not only mary admits her mistakes but also caroline
No one could cry quite like Mary
I'm just glad Nellie didn't win the award!
Yeah - she did everything right to own up for the fire, clean the barn, work for the bool, and then also tell the teacher the truth....one felt so sorry in the end, because obviously she did not mean to start the fire... in those days it must have been hard with everyone living so cramped....so one can understand her wanting to be alone to do what she was right ... which was of all things studying !
Yes true nut my complaint was towards the mother setting the restriction in the first place not disobey her mother . For a woman to have succeeded at anything besides teaching an sewing was a marvel. I just happen to think she should of allowed Mary to have succeeded or failed in the end it was her lesson to learn not her mothers...
I love it
her parents surely have that book in their assortment
Maybe it's just the historical context but here Mary strikes me as someone who is obedient beyond reason. I would have taken the exam any way.
Well, at that time, obedience like Mary's would not have been "beyond reason" - you were expected to obey your parents and that was that - no questioning as to whether the parents' demands were reasonable. Interestingly, the whole thing seems also to be a matter of bad timing, as Caroline has second thoughts about forbidding Mary the exam, given how Mary always liked to prove herself academically and that it would have been hard, if not impossible, to get a dictionary like that by her own means. The point was that she was unsure of herself and went to the preacher for advice, and he gave her that peace about not reversing the punishment, as the children would then also expect it to be reversed in other cases. The problem was not that Caroline did not listen to her heart here; she saw that Mary was trying to make amends on her own and her reversing the punishment would not have shaken her authority with her daughters.
(*Commentary*: That was also one of the episodes where Charles, the actual moral anchor of the family, was not present and Michael Landon took this as an opportunity to show how important HIS character was, that Caroline could not really make a right decision without him!!)
However, I always thought that the preacher's verdict also contained a moral lesson for Caroline, that she had spoken in anger when issuing the punishment, and that she should never speak in anger in such cases, because she might be stuck with words that she wished she had not said.
just think eventually they had 5 kids living there
@linkaqt1 I think she was writing the note during the exam.
@FToniS yep and she had every reference book lol!
@linkaqt1 Writing her memoir about LHOTP, "The Way I See It".
@greenwich1754 yea right!
what doesnt make sense is why did mary storm out upset because she know she didnt win because she didnt take the examination
@1mnmafan she stormed out because she was so hurt because she knew she could have won. Also, I think she felt she let me Beadle down.
Yes but I was wandering not in one single episode they introduced a black man or women acting it’s like black ppl didn’t exist in America yet that era i found it bit racist some how
Well I find this episode totally unreal in fact the pressure put upon Mary was wrong wrong wrong. Her Mum should of gone with her gut on this one. the whole plot was set up in the first scene when the mum said there were older students that basically need the book more than she did..Not to mention the preacher, that whole thing of parents never being wrong even when they are oh man wrong wrong wrong lol thx for the upload !!!!
If Mary didn't take the exam, what was she doing in the school when the exam was going on!? please reply!
From what i remember, she pretended doing it, but instead she wrote the letter quitting the test.
Its a show...