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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I saw the movies for this long before I ever read the book, so I already had a pretty vague idea of what was going to happen. I've always liked this story, probably because my name is Sarah and it means Princess in Hebrew and as a kid I was easily pleased by things like this. I like the overactive imagination, living in a sort of fantasy world almost.
Sara does get a bit old with everyone fawning over her like she's the be-all, end-all because apparently being a decent human being is just that damn unexpected back then? Heaven forbid anyone just be nice. And the fact that she says, "oh no, I'm ugly and nothing special, shut up you guys" is pretty friggin annoying too. She was hero-worshiped for being alive and breathing half the time.
It seemed like every kid aside from Sara was described as fat (except maybe Becky, though she was being starved and worked to death, so it was hard for her to have any fat on her poor little skeleton anyway), which is also very obnoxious like 'only the beautiful little Sara can be perfect and skinny and everyone else is fat. Also every other child is extremely stupid even though they come from fairly decent families (not as rich as Sara, but still enough that they were having French lessons, so obviously not poor) who would have educated their kids yet they all turned out to be dullards somehow.
Yeah, I know, it was written in 1905, but there is no reason to excuse and ignore these things in our 'classic' literature just because they were widely read. Child labor was also widely done and as we know now, it wasn't a good fucking thing, so let's move on and start giving a more critical eye to this shit and stop saying these books are so amazing just because they are old.
The story isn't bad and I don't hate it, but I still like the movie adaptations better.
Sara does get a bit old with everyone fawning over her like she's the be-all, end-all because apparently being a decent human being is just that damn unexpected back then? Heaven forbid anyone just be nice. And the fact that she says, "oh no, I'm ugly and nothing special, shut up you guys" is pretty friggin annoying too. She was hero-worshiped for being alive and breathing half the time.
It seemed like every kid aside from Sara was described as fat (except maybe Becky, though she was being starved and worked to death, so it was hard for her to have any fat on her poor little skeleton anyway), which is also very obnoxious like 'only the beautiful little Sara can be perfect and skinny and everyone else is fat. Also every other child is extremely stupid even though they come from fairly decent families (not as rich as Sara, but still enough that they were having French lessons, so obviously not poor) who would have educated their kids yet they all turned out to be dullards somehow.
Yeah, I know, it was written in 1905, but there is no reason to excuse and ignore these things in our 'classic' literature just because they were widely read. Child labor was also widely done and as we know now, it wasn't a good fucking thing, so let's move on and start giving a more critical eye to this shit and stop saying these books are so amazing just because they are old.
The story isn't bad and I don't hate it, but I still like the movie adaptations better.