Title: The Princess Diaries
Author: Meg Cabot
First Edition: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books, USA
SUMMARY OF THE BOOK:
The book goes over the girl: Mia Thermopolis, she is 14 years and she lives with her mother in Manhattan. Here father lives in a small country in Europe. Mia has a best friend: Lily, and together they have a TV programme that calls: Lilly tells it like it is! One day Mia’s father came to Manhattan, he would speak with Mia over something importants, he is the prins of Genovia. But he is very sick and can’t get anymore children, so Mia is de princess of Genovia. A lot of girls like this, but Mia not, she is just Mia and not: Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. Mia don’t tell anything to Lilly, she wouldn’t understand.
A few days later there came a article in the paper about Mia and that she is de princess of Genovia, then everybody knows it. Mia get a lot of attention, but she don’t always like it. But from one boy she likes it: Josh Richer, Mia loves him. Together with him she goes to the Cultural Diversity Dance. There she get her first kiss of him, but it was not a nice kiss. Josh kissed her in front of all the journalists and reporters, and it was not even good. Mia run in to the school en goes straight away to the girls bathroom. There she writes everything in her diary. When she is ready she see two pair feets on the other side of the door: Lily and Tina (the daughter of a sheik). She tells Mia that Micheal is also on the dance. Micheal is the brother of Lily, and Mia likes him. She dance al the night with Micheal.
So there was a good and happy end.
THE LEADING CHARACTERS:
Mia Thermopolis:
She is a 14-years old girl that lives a normal live in Manhattan. Than she hears that she is the princess of Genovia. She get lessons from her Grandma and she learn a lot about the royalty.
Helen Thermopolis:
She is the mother of Mia. She has a relation with the Algebra teacher of Mia.
Arthur Christoff Phillipe Gerard Grimaldi Renaldo:
He is the father of Mia and the Prince of Genovia. He is very sick and can’t get any more children.
Lily Moscovitz:
She is the best friend of Mia.
Micheal Moscovitz:
He is the brother of Lily and a friend of Mia.
Lana Weinbergen:
She is a hugh bitch and very popular. Mia throws a Nutty Royal (ice-cream) over her shirt.
Tina Hakim Baba:
She is a daughter of a rich sheik and the new friend of Mia when she became a princess. She has also a bodyguard.
Josh Richter:
He is the most popular boy on school and he knows that. First he don’t like Mia, he thinks she is a freak. But when Mia became a princess, he like her.
THE MOST IMPORTANT SCENE IN THE BOOK:
I think that the most important scene in the book is the scene that the father of Mia tells her that she is a princess:
………………..(Mia has just heard that here dad is a prince and she went to the bathroom and now comes back)…... “Do you really understand what I’m telling you, Mia??” I nodded. “You are the Prince of Genovia”. “Yes” he said. “And grandma is… what??” “The Dowager Princess” I winced. Ew. That explained a whole lot about grandma. Dad could tell he had me stumped. He kept on lokking at me all hopeful-like. Finally, after I tried just smiling at him innocently for a while, and that didn’t work, I slumped over and said: “OK. What??” He look disappointed. “Mia, don’t you know??” I had my head on the table. You aren’t supposed to do that at the Plaza, but I hadn’t noticed Ivana Trump looking our way. “No…” I said “I guess not. Know what?” “You’re not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey” he said. Because I was born out of wedlock, and my mom doesn’t believe in what she calls the cult of the patriarchy, she gave me her last name, instead of my dad’s. I raised my head at that. “I’m not?” I said blinking a few times. “Then who am I??” And he went, kind of sadly, “You’re Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Princess of Genovia”……………………….
This scene is very important because it is the foundation of this book.
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