Life experiences shape people’s values all the time. These experiences change their live’s. How can life experiences shape a person’s values? In the stories, Little Women, written by Louisa May Alcott, and, "Abuela Invents the Zero," written by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the characters endured life experiences that shaped there values, even though the characters lived many years apart and very different lives.
Also, the main characters lived many years apart and lived many different lives. In Little Women, the girls lived during the Civil war. Connie lived in the twenty-first century. Knowing how far apart they lived, people can tell they had very different lives.
The main characters in Little Woman and “Abula invents the Zero,” have life experiences.