2008年7月21日月曜日

Book-review 1-8 A Little Princess


   I read " A LITTLE PRINCESS ". This heroine is " Sara Crewe". She is seven years old, and she has long black hair and green eyes. She came to London with her father. They are from India. They came to London for her school. Her school she is going is Miss Minchin's School. This owner is Miss Minchin. She is a tall woman. Sara's mother was dead, she was French. So Sara can speak French well. She soon made new friends in the school. She was very good at telling stories. She was a clever child, and the other girls loved to listen to her.The stories were all about kings and queens and princesses and wonderful countries across the sea. Her best friend is " Ermengarde". She also likes listening to her story. Ermengrade is not clever, she could never remember any of her school lessons.
The older girl is " Lavinia" in this school. Before Sara came, Lavinia was the richest and most important girl in the school. But Sara's father was rocher than Lavinia's father. So now Sara was more important than Lavinia, and Lavinia did not like that. She envies Sara.
Sara has other friend, she is Becky. She was a servant in Miss Minchin's school, and she was only fourteen years old. She worked all day and sometimes half the night. She and Sara had very different lives. Normaly rich girl and servants girls were not friends, but Sara and Becky were good friend. Becky was always hungry, then Sara often bought things for her to eat.
When Sara has her eleventh girthday party with her classmate, A lawyer came to this school.And he said," Mr Crewe has no money, there are no diamond mines. And Mr Crewe's good friend ran away with all Mr Crewe's money. Mr Crewe was ill with a fever, A week later he was dead. Sara has no money because of her father's dead. She became a servant. She had to live little attic room. The next morning Sara's new life began. She worked every day, from early in the morning to late at night.Her new life were very hard. She was always tired and hungry, but she never cried.
There was one Indian gentleman, his name is Mr Carrisford. He is looking for one girl. He was Mr Crewe's friend. He ran away with Mr Crewe's all money. Then he want to find his daughter, and he want to take care of her. He lived next to door of Sara. Winter came , there were no fires for servant girls, Sara could not sleep because of the cold.She is thin and hungry. Because Miss Minchin was very strict, then Sara could not have enough to eat.
One day night it happened magic. She sleep with tired and hungry, she opened her eyes. She found the room is different. There was a wonderful hot fire. There were new, warm blankets on her bed, and beautiful pictures on the walls. There were cups and plates, hot tea, and hot meat pies , sandwiches, cake, oranges, apples. First she thought this is dream. But this was true. Becky and Sara ate too much. There were some books on the table. It was written " To the little girl in the attic. From a friend ". The magic dod not go away. Every evening, when Sara went up to bed, she found new things in the attic for her and forb Becky. They had a wonderful hot dinner everyday from kind and wonderful friend. But they didn't know who is it. Mr Carrisford was looking for Sara for two years. But he could not find her. He didn't know she lives next building. Last night the monkey came in Sara's room. Then he came to see Sara to take the monkey in the house. Sara and Mr Carrisford began to talk. Sara said she was born in India. She said her father dead in India two years ago. His friend ran away to take his all money. Mr Carrisford asked what is your fathers name ? Sara said " Ralph Crewe ". Mr Carrisford finally got the girl. Sara began to live Mr Carrisford's house next to the school with Becky. Sara became a princess again.
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