Blog 11: My Chosen Story "A Little Princess"

I choose the novella “A Little Princess” because I believe it has many things that could be identified with any difficult situation a girl might live. Moreover, the first time I watched the movie “A Little Princess”, I felt sad because of the cruelty of the antagonist of the novella.

A Little Princess is a 1904 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, what happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.
This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll, Sara becomes a servant of the household. Hated by the schoolmistress for her independent spirit, Sara becomes a pariah in the household, with only a few secretly loyal friends. But through her inner integrity and strength of will, Sara Crewe maintains the deportment, inner nobility and generous spirit of a "real" princess.
Sara discovers through her fantasy tales, she can live in a magic world being a princess where nobody can hurt her, and all her dreams or imagination would become true.

I think I am going to write about the Hero’s Quest and symbols because this novella follows all the characters of critical approach. In other words, the little girl plays the “Cinderella” role because she has to experience many problems when she believes her father is dead. As a consequence of all Sara’s life changes, the only way of feeling good is by imagining and believing she is in other world living as a princess rounded of luxury.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Princess