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** There's also a moment several chapters before she gets sick where Beth says, about heaven, "It seems so long to wait, so hard to do. I want to fly away at once, as those swallows fly, and go in at that splendid gate." Little does she know that the wait is not as long as it should be.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Most of the screen adaptations avoid actually showing Beth's death, as does the Broadway musical. Of the best-known versions, only the 1994 film, the 1998 opera, and the 2017 miniseries give her an onscreen/onstage death scene.]]

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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Most of the screen adaptations avoid actually showing Beth's death, as does the Broadway musical. Of the best-known versions, only the 1933 and 1994 film, films, the 1998 opera, and the 2017 miniseries give her an onscreen/onstage death scene.scene, and even then, the two movies don't show the actual moment onscreen, but cut away to another image until afterwards. Meanwhile, the 1949 film, the 1978 miniseries, and the Broadway musical just follow Beth's talk with Jo about her fate by [[TimeSkip skipping ahead several months]] to a short time after her death, while the 2019 film has Jo wake up in the morning to find that Beth died during the night.]]



* LaserGuidedKarma: The whole debacle of "Jo Meets Apollyon" happens becuase Amy wants to go on an outing and Jo tells her no, while promising to take her another time. Amy the next day calls Jo a "crosspatch" for not taking her skating, even though Jo went to cool her temper about Amy ''burning her book'', and the younger sister happily tags along when Meg suggests using the opportunity to make amends. After Amy falls through the ice, due to Jo not warning her in a fit of spite, she has to spend the next few days if not weeks in bed, which means she won't be going on outings for a while.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The whole debacle of "Jo Meets Apollyon" happens becuase because Amy wants to go on an outing and Jo tells her no, while promising to take her another time. Amy the next day calls Jo a "crosspatch" for not taking her skating, even though Jo went to cool her temper about Amy ''burning her book'', and the younger sister happily tags along when Meg suggests using the opportunity to make amends. After Amy falls through the ice, due to Jo not warning her in a fit of spite, she has she'll probably have to spend the next few days if not weeks in bed, which means she won't be going on outings for a while.

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