haejina

Princess Diaries 1

By Meg Cabot

230 pages

Main character                                                                                                                                               The main character of this book is Amelia, but she's just called by Mia. Mia is five foot nine real ordinary freshman in Albert Einstein high school, who is flunking in Algebra and often gets F for most subjects. Her mom is a painter and her dad is working in the government, they are divorced. Her mom is going out with her Algebra teacher and she really doesn't appreciate that. She likes Josh Richter, who is the most cute guy in her school, but she's introvert and thinks she has so many problems with her appearance, so she haven't even said a word to him.

Summary                                                                                                                                                     Mia is an ordinary freshman and she has a lot of complex with her appearance. One day, she finds out that she is not an ordinary girl anymore, but the princess of Genovia, her dad is a princess of Genovia and she is the next throne. Her life has totally changed in one minute. She can't believe it, but since that is true, she has to take princess lessons with her grandmother, the Queen of Genovia, a bodyguard is always with her and she has to act like a princess. She hasn't tell anyone yet and she's not gonna tell anyone untill she actually is a princess of Genovia. Because of that, she acts unusual, Lily is wondering about it and Mia is not gonna tell about it, so they are kind of in fight. However, one day, her picture is on the cover of the Post, so things are not going the way she wants, everyone knows she's the princess of Genovia and reporters are everywhere she goes. Now she has nothing to hide from everyone. At first, she didn't like to be the princess of Genovia but now, she is getting used to it.

Character I like to be friends with                                                                                                                         I like to be friends with Hakim Baba in this book. She is a quite, smart and rich girl who has the bodyguard for herself. Everyone in the Albert Einstein high school doesn't like her so much and doesn't notice about her so much, so she usually eats lunch alone. In the past, Mia used to do that too, but when she became alone because of that she and Lily was in a fight, she just sat by Hakim Baba although she didn't like her very much. However, as time went through, Mia started to get to know her better and she knew that Hakim Baba was a nice girl to be a friend. Actually, I also have some fixed ideas about some people just by their appearance, I want to improve my personality about that and be friends with people whom I thought that way and realize that my thoughts were wrong, that they also could be very good friends.

Personal Response                                                                                                                                           At the beginning since I started to read this book, I felt somewhat boring, but the more I read the book, the more I got interested in the book. I like this part of the book that she didn't tell anybody but everybody knows the truth accidentally. I saw the movie of this book, so I already know general content of this book, so apart from the content of the book, I could more concentrate on learning new words.

I'm haejin in 9N.

I'm from Korea.

I live in Wuxi, so I take school bus for about an hour everyday. 

I have four people in my family, mom, dad, and younger sister, who is also in this school.

I've lived in China for about one and a half year.

I like to go to school and like to study English.