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"The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books - great, big, fat ones - history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much. Make her ride her pony in the Row or go out and buy a new doll. She ought to play more with dolls."
pp.9
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-Sara Crewe
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"I want her to look as if she wasn't a doll really", Sara said. "I want her to look as if she listens when I talk to her. The trouble with dolls, papa" - and she put her head on one side and reflected as she said it - "the trouble with dolls is that they never seem to hear." So they looked at big ones and little ones - at dolls with black eyes and dolls with blue - at dolls with brown curls and dolls with golden braids, dolls dressed and dolls undressed.
pp.12
"You see, " Sarah said, when they were examining one who had no clothes, "If, when I find her, she has no frocks, we can take her to a dressmaker and have her things made to fit. They will fit better if they are tried on."
pp.12-13
...She had certainly a very intelligent expression in her eyes when Sara took her in her arms. She was a large doll, but not too large to carry about easily; she had naturally curling golden brown hair which hung like a mantle about her, and her eyes were real eyelashes and not painted lines."
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"She has silk stockings on!" whispered Jessie, bending over her geography also. "And what little feet! I never saw such little feet!" pp. 18
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She was a fat child, who did not look as if she were in the least clever...Having wept hopeless tears for weeks in her efforts to remember that 'la mere' meant 'the mother', and 'le pere' 'the father...
pp. 26
From my post:
"I do like that Emangarde's physical appearance doesn't exclude her from being a princess, but it is implied that she is "stupid" because she is "fat". "
And I guess the way fat people are described in this book in general.
pp. 15 (chapter 1)
Miss Amelia was fat and dumpy, and stood very much in awe of her sister. She was really the better-natured person of the two, but she never disobeyed Miss Minchin.
In general, Frances Hodgson Burnett depicts fat people as:
-good-natured and kind
-prone to emotional outbursts "female hysteria" those days
-not smart
I am glad that Sara later says that it doesn't matter if a girl is fat or thin, she can still be a princess, but how the author depicts fat people in general is troubling.
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Also, it always saddens me to see how Emangarde’s learning disability is ridiculed by not only her fellow students, but also by her teachers and parents. I struggled in school with some subjects as well, so that part hits close to my heart.
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Sara was to be what was known as a 'parlour-boarder', and she was to enjoy even greater privileges than parlour boarders usually did. She was to have a pretty bedroom and a sitting-room of her own; she was to have a pony and a carriage, and a maid to take the place of the ayah who had been her nurse in India.
Movie
Miss Minchin: The very idea of delivering a thing like this at the front door!"
Sara: Oh, look, Daddy, my pony!
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Miss Minchin: There are a number of things besides the pony: parcels have been arriving her collect for your daughter for hours.
Upon Miss Minchin learning about how rich Sara is--
Miss Minchin: It would be a pleasure to have her with us.
Sarah: Does that mean I have to stay?
Miss Minchin: Yes dear, you are to have that privilege. You and your little pony.
The book:
Captain Crewe: "The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a ( ... )
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“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.” And they put their arms round each other, and kissed as if they would never let each other go. pp.14
From the movie:
Captain Crewe: You're learning me by heart little Sara.
Sara: No Daddy, I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
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“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.” And they put their arms round each other, and kissed as if they would never let each other go.
From the movie:
Ralph Crewe as Sarah touches his face: What are you doing? Memorizing me by heart?
Sara: No. I already know you by heart.
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"What I believe about dolls,"she said, "is that they can do things they will not let us know about. Perhaps, really, Emily can read and talk and walk, but she will only do it when people are out of the room. That is her secret. You see, if people knew that dolls could do things, they would make them do work. So perhaps, they have promised each other to keep it a secret. If you stay in the room, Emily will just sit there and stare, but if you go out, she will begin to read, perhaps, or go out and look out of the window. Then if she heard either of us coming, she would just run back and jump into her chair and pretend she had been there all the time." pp. 19
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Sara is talking to Ermengarde about Emily:
"Let us go very quietly to the door," she whispered, "and then I will open it quite suddenly; perhaps we may catch her."
pp. 33
They made not the least noise until they reached the door. Then Sara suddenly turned the handle, and threw it wide open. Its opening revealed the room, quite neat and quiet, a fire gently burning in the grate, and a wonderful doll sitting in a chair by it, apparently reading a book.
"Oh, she got back to her seat before we could see her!" Sara exclaimed. "Of course, they always do. They are as quick as lightning."
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