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A Little Princess Summary

How It All Goes Down

When the story opens, we see the mushy smushy interactions between a little girl named Sara Crewe andher father (let s call him !apa Crewe", who are e#tremely sad about an imminent e$ent% &he imminente$ent happens to be the fact that !apa Crewe is shipping Sara off to boarding school in 'ondon (thecloudiest, most dreary of all places to be abandoned " because she simply cannot stay with him in India% It snot good for children because sun is worse than rain, and foreign countries turn good children intosa$ages, or something%

(In case you re wondering) yes% &his is racist% In fact, the whole boo* is a tad racist% We ll get to that%"

Sara arri$es at +iss +inchin s Seminary for Girls, which is a fancy boarding school run by a humorless oldmaid named (you guessed it " +iss +inchin% !apa Crewe buys her lots of e#pensi$e clothes and toys,including a doll named mily, and then -ets off to India again%

+iss +inchin treats her as a star pupil because she s rich, but secretly she has a serious disli*e of the littlegirl because she s intelligent and independent.and +iss +inchin doesn t li*e to feel threatened in anyway% Sara ma*es friends with a not/too/bright girl named rmengarde and ta*es a little girl named 'ottieunder her wing% She also befriends a scullery maid named 0ec*y and wows e$eryone with her impressi$egrasp of the 1rench language % So far, 'ondon is a success%

2n Sara s ele$enth birthday, +iss +inchin plans a huge party and Sara buys a giant doll that sheominously refers to as 3the last doll%3 Howe$er, as Sara is celebrating, !apa Crewe s lawyer comes to theboarding school and gi$es +iss +inchin some unfortunate news.!apa Crewe has died% !enniless% Withno money to pay the bills%

+inchin is angry because of the money, but she s delighted because now she can hate Sara openly%2$ernight, Sara goes from the richest student at the school to a maid who s forced to sleep in a tiny atticroom and perform all sorts of chores% She somehow sur$i$es by ma*ing up fantastical stories, befriending arat, and tal*ing to her doll% 4es, she s a pretty weird little girl%

Despite the fact that she s poor, hungry, and cold, Sara still manages to act li*e a princess, dispensingcharity and spea*ing proper nglish % +eanwhile, her neighbors.a large family and a rich neighbor with anIndian ser$ant.are watching Sara, who they find $ery odd and sad%

We get to see inside the Indian man and his house as well.and there is something reallllly interestinggoing on &he Indian man happens to be searching for the child of his friend, 5alph Crewe, who was also

his business partner in diamond mines% 0asically, the *id of this 5alph Crewe fellow is going to be stin*ingrich when this Indian guy finds her% Hm, 5alph Crewe% Something about that sounds familiar 6 2h, hey, it sSara s dad 7nfortunately, the man is totally on the wrong trac*, searching in 1rance and 5ussia%

+eanwhile, on the other side of the wall, Sara has gotten herself into big trouble % +iss +inchin punishes herse$erely, ta*ing away the meager scraps of food that she s been li$ing on% Sara goes to bed hungry andupset, but when she wa*es up in the morning, she sees that her room has been magically $isited and is fullof nice things, a warm fire, and filling food% +agic and sorcery

&his whole 3el$es in the night3 thing continues for a while and Sara and 0ec*y are not 8uite so star$edanymore, which bothers +iss +inchin because she s a total witch, and not in the cool 9% :% 5owling sense%

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&hen, one day, Sara returns a mon*ey to her rich neighbor s house% (5eally%" When she gets there, theman and his lawyer reali;e that 6 wait for it 6 she s Sara Crewe Sara comes to li$e with the man andrecei$es her inheritance, and +iss +inchin is predictably miserable when she reali;es she s made a terriblemista*e in treating Sara poorly and missing out on all that money she could ha$e had%