After recently circumnavigating Gulliver's Travels, Anne of Green Gables, The Hobbit, and Treasure Island, I'm now reading Little Women with my own little women.
Having never read it before (it doesn't have a single 'kapow' in the whole book) I was surprised by the content of the first chapter. The girls' favourite game (in the book) is playing 'Pilgrim's Progress'. Likewise they are each given a copy (of Pilgrim's Progress) for Christmas and promise their mother (their father is off fighting in the war) that they will try to emulate Christian's journey.
So Pilgrim's Progress is the story behind the story. I wonder how many Little Women readers know what that story is all about?
It made me think two thoughts:
1. The Christian gospel has greatly shaped (Western) English literature. Another argument for Christian SRE in schools - learn the gospel and pass English HSC!
2. The OT is essential to understanding the NT. It is the story behind the story.
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