The book Little Princess tells a story of a girl named Sara. She was an erratic girl with green eyes and short black hair. She was good at imaging things and she could always come up with some odd thoughts.
She lived a happy life with her young handsome father Captain Crewe in Indian. Then when she was seven years old, her father sent her to London to study. Her father bought her a doll named Emily to accompany her. She regarded Emily as her best friend and always told Emily about her father, her happiness and sadness. She did this by pretending that Emily can understand her and can move around when she was out. She called away her attention from her loneliness by doing this.
Her father bought her many luxurious things for he had a lot of money and he loved her so much. So, some girls were very jealous of her. However, since she was very kind-hearted and easy going, she made friends with most of them. Ermengarde was a fat girl and she lacked of confidence because she could not learn things very fast. The first day she met Sara, she admired her a lot for she can speak French fluently. Then Sara helped her to learn French and build up her self-confidence and later they became good friends. Another girl named Lottie was younger and she was spoiled by her father since she had no mother. Sara’s mother died when she was very young. So she felt very sorry for Lottie and she offered to be her little mother and look after her. For this reason, they became good friends. Sara loved to make up stories with her fantastic imagination and she would tell them to the students. Then one day, when she was telling a story to the girls, a servant named Betty was so attracted to her story that she forgot her work and listened to the story (which is against the rules). Later, Sara knew that Betty was always ordered to do a lot of work and scolded by the cook. What was worse, sometimes she even had nothing to eat because of punishment. So Sara tried her best to give Betty the chance to listen to her stories and give her some cakes to eat when Betty was hungry. Betty was so moved by Sara and when she heard that Sara want to be her friend, she could not believe her ears. However, Sara was honest and she did not care that Betty was a servant. Then finally, the two became good friends.
Sara lived happily with her good friends. And during the days, she read many books and also made up some fantastic stories. She pretended to be a little princess and acted as a real one. So she can still acted very politely when some bad girls said bad things to her. For her beauty and good manners, she was regarded as a little princess by some girls. However, the happiness was drawn back when a misfortune happened to Sara when she was eleven years old.
(Wait for my next blog to tell you the rest of the story.)
Friday, April 24, 2009
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It's good to know that you are reading. Reading as an activity we enjoy lasts FOREVER. Perhpas the next book you should read is The Happy Prince, not that it is similar but to read how stories are written.
ReplyDeleteReflect - what have you learnt from the stories? Can you apply them to yourself (e.g. being best friend with a servant?)?