Review: A good childhood story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
I have loved this story since the first time I read it in Elementary School.It tells the story of Sara Crewe at an English boarding school in the 1800's. The school is for daughter's of the wealthy and Sara's father was extremely wealthy. The owner of the school didn't like Sara very much, but had to treat her nicely because of how much money her father was paying the school.After 4 years at the school, during Sara's 12th birthday party, the owner found out that Sara's father had died and had lost all of his money. Since it would have looked badly to have turned this little girl out into the street she turned her into a servant. Sara now slept in an unheated attic, wore clothes that were too small for her, was out running errands in all weather and was given little food to eat.Sara used her imagination to help her get through all of this.Next door to the school, a gentleman from India moved in and was looking for the daughter of his friend who had died two years earlier. Yes, that daughter was Sara. It took a while to find out that she was living next door, but in the meantime he was gifting Sara (The Little Girl in the Attic, as he put it) with bedding, food and warm fires.It is, in the end, a sweet little story. The physical child abuse was not much (this isn't even close to a Dickens novel!), just being misused. No beatings for Sara although the little girl in the next attic room was hit several times near the end of the story.