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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The book is good reading but it doesn't make for a good TV show. There are passages about  Laura not being allowed to make noise on Sunday, about making butter, digging wells, mending fences, crops.

“On Sundays Mary and Laura must not run or shout or be noisy in their play...They might look quietly at their paper dolls, but they must not make anything new for them. They were not allowed to sew on doll clothes, not even with pins.
“They must sit quietly and listen while Ma read Bible stories to them.. But there was nothing else they could do.”

The whole community of Little House and the guest actors is the reason for the shows success along with Michael Landon who had so much charisma.

A limited series isn't going to be that interesting. [/quote]

That wasn't Laura banned from making noise on Sunday.

That was a story about her grandfather, that Pa told her to sooth her after she got in trouble for being a stinker.  It was a contrast between how far things had changed and modernized from her grandpa's youth (late 1700s or very early 1800s) to her era.

Some people seem to believe all life started circa 2000, and judgment of the past should be distributed accordingly, with zero historical perspective.[/quote]

Have you read the books? In the first couple of books Laura and Mary absolutely had to have solemn Sundays were they couldn't run, plays, or make noise. It was about quiet reflection, studying the Bible, playing quietly. Historically this was very accurate that many families kept Sundays as a day of rest in the 1870's when Laura was a child. No work or play.  Pa tells her about her grandfather because she was in trouble for playing with Jack their dog and running around with him making noise. Her grandfather's times were even stricter but even in Laura's time period Sundays seemed really awful for a kid.

I only remember this part because I read first book out loud to my boys when they were around 5 and 7 and [b]they kept asking about why they had to be so quiet and talked about how hard that must be[/b]. [/quote]

I read the first book to my kids around the same age and their eyes got so big and shocked that Laura and Mary were so happy to receive oranges and a single shiny penny in their Christmas stockings.
And that episode where Laura had to give away her corn doll to a neighbor's daughter because that was the neighborly thing to do only to find it smashed in the neighbor's iced mud a few months later.
And loved that passage where the girls find shiny beads at the abandoned Indian campsite and baby Carrie likes it so much that Mary solemnly states Carrie can have them. To which Ma looked at Laura "and..." Laura had to also say Carrie could have to beads too. Meanwhile Laura writes that she wanted to slap Mary for her honorable sacrifice of their newfound toy.[/quote]

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