A Little Princess
Sara, the little princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In 1888, two years after the book Little Lord Fauntleroy, she brought in the youth magazine Saint Nicholas the serialized novel Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin out. After the success of the series, she published a play in 1903 as A Little Princess. 1905 was followed by the conversion to an enhanced novel, A Little Princess ( Little Princess. The story of Sara Crewe), which now also appear the classmates Lottie and Ermengarde, the maid Becky and the rat Melchisedec. The anime Little Princess Sara to the novel was produced by Nippon Animation and 1985 shown in Japan for the first time. An American film adaptation of 1995 ran under the German title Little Princess.
Content
Sara Crewe is placed at the age of seven years from her beloved father from India to England, where they should be taught in girls' boarding school of Miss Minchin in London. Her mother was French and but died at Sara's birth. At boarding Sara quickly finds friends: She joins the chubby Ermengarde St. John's (German Ermengarde ), which helps in their learning difficulties. In addition, it is the " adoptive mother" of the four-year Lottie Legh, they can always settle down with a lot of imagination and empathy. Sara is in the maid Becky a true friend. Although this is very poor, Sara stands opposite her with respect and makes no difference whether rich or poor. Your classmate Lavinia hates Sara, however, as only one. She never misses an opportunity to Sara obliterate one. Lavinia is very jealous of Sara and is afraid that Sara could completely take over their posts. ( Class president, most popular girl, etc.) In boarding school she is given preferential treatment because of their wealth, what their character but thankfully not hurt. Only Lavinia is this more and more reasons to hate Sarah. On her eleventh birthday she gets the news that her father had died in India and allegedly lost by his old friend and business partner of its assets. Sara is now an orphan, without any assets and any people in the world. Miss Minchin makes them work for him without pay, on the grounds that she had had major expenditure to Sara and they give her generously a roof over their head.
Sara adds, not without pride. It refers to the attic next to the maid Becky. Your imagination with which it otherwise has invented the most beautiful stories, they can not be down in the dark, cold chamber. The only thing she was allowed to keep, her doll Emily, but you can donate some comfort. Luckily she has not Becky. The classmates Ermengarde and Lottie often sneak up to the attic; for them and Becky invents Sara the story of a prisoner in the Bastille. She makes friends with the sparrows and the rat Melchisedec. The idea that she was a soldier in the war or a princess, helps her again and again to respond to the scolding and injustice in their present life with courtesy and respect, which the cook and Miss Minchin even more upset. Then offing, initially only for the readers who turn to: The adjacent house pulls a Mr. Carrisford one, a sick English gentleman, who lived for a time in India. In neighboring attic, next to Sara, now an Indian servant Ram Dass lives ( a Laskare ). The reader learns that the English gentleman of good friend and business partner of Sara's father, who is desperately looking for the child, to give him the assets attributable to Sara. Due to its unsuccessful search - he suspects she in Paris and even in Moscow - he recovers from his illness difficult. Ram Dass makes him the proposal, but at least do something good for the girl next door. As Ermengarde once Sara wants to bring food, they are caught by Miss Minchin. Becky, who has also been invited to be dismissed. Ermengarde gets grounded, and Sarah will get the next day nothing to eat. That night Ram Dass bring food and blankets on the roof in the room of exhausted sleeping Sara, he also ignites a warm fire in the fireplace on. From that night, by the magic that helped her in the worst moment, Sara gains new force experienced it, that in the now cozy attic again and again for her and Becky dinner is and can the abuse of Miss Minchin and the cook with meet a smile. As the monkey of the English Gentleman is one night room flees before the unfamiliar English cold on the roof in Sara, she keeps it with him, to bring him back the next morning. During the conversation between Sara and Mr. Carrisford turns out that she's the girl for whom he had so desperately sought. Sara no longer have to go back to boarding school, and she takes Becky as a maid to him. And the sick Mr. Carrisford gesundet rapidly, because the terrible burden of the search for the child of his friend he has been accepted and Sara conquered his heart.
Films
- Literary work
- Literature (19th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Children 's and Youth Literature
- Novel, epic
- Frances Hodgson Burnett