“A Little Princess” By Frances Hodgson Burnett Review

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl’s fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess , one of the best-loved stories in all of children’s literature.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, because on the one side it was sweet and I liked it but on the second side I didn’t like it so much as I wanted to.

The beginning of this book was very sweet and nice, because the main character Sarah, was a very sweet child which I loved but as the book continues to go further and further Sarah was becoming way too perfect, which really made me dislike here.

Its important to say that this book is meant for kids rather than adults. And because I read this book as an adult might explain the low rating I gave this book. Very fast Sarah became Boringly perfect, and I know how harsh it will sounds like, but I know why the adults at the school didn’t like Sarah, thats because she was way too perfect.

There were things I liked about this book which of course is that this book prompts  being nice to people no matter how pretty their are, how wealthy they are or whatever else there might be involved. 

The characters here well not the greatest, Sarah was a very bad character because as I’ve said before, she is way too damn perfect, which made me dislike her very very fast. To be honest I never went from liking a character to truly hating a character so fast as I’ve did with Sarah while reading this book.

As of the rest of the characters, they all were ignorant, shallow, and helpless which really didn’t help me liking this book. 

The writing style makes it very easy and you don’t have to be a genius to see solely from the writing style that this book was meant for children.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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