[FUN WITH READING 2018-20212A] A Little Princess

20212黃宇吟 (HUANG, YU-YIN)

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: A Little Princess

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1998

PRESS: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

ISBN: 978019478966

A Little Princess

In the story “A Little Princess,” it talked about a little girl who was called Sara Crewe. The story began in a cold winter and a school with rich girls in London. Sara was a rich girl, the richest girl in the school. But things went worse when her father died in a bad fever, and all his money was taken by his friend but his friend ran away from her.

Because of it, Sara had no money to support her in the school. She became a poor servant girl and worked sixteen hours a day. But she was not overwhelmed by the dilemma. She had two true friends. One was Becky, a poor servant girl, too. The other was a rich girl, Ermie. Sara went through two years in an attic until she met his father’s friend, Mr. Carmichael. Mr. Carmichael looked for Sara for a long time. When he knew Sara was Mr. Crewe’s daughter, he was surprised. And he brought Sara out of school with Becky. It was a happy ending in the end.

In the story, I liked a sentence most. “A princess is always brave, so I must be, too,” said Sara. She encouraged herself and kept working. When we are trapped in something, I want to use the sentence to encourage myself. Maybe not everyone can be like Sara. She was not overwhelmed by the dilemma and kept working to make her life better. Many people in the world are like her but more people are overwhelmed by the dilemma. It is critical to encourage ourselves by making a better life for us.