A Little Princess - yep, that's me :)

Yesterday, I watched one of my favorite movies with some friends. It's called, The Little Princess, about a younger girl who is sent to a New York boarding school that her mother, whom died earlier in the girls life, while her father goes to fight in world war I. The father gives his daughter a doll to remember him by. At the beginning of the movie, the girl is treated very well, but about half way through, the girls father supposedly "dies." The head-mistress of the school than makes the girl a servant and forces her to live in the attic, wearing rags in the cold. Meanwhile, her father comes to live with an old man next door to the boarding school, as he has no memory of the war, is in a wheel chair, and has no vision. The old man believes the man living with him is his son, but we find out later that is not the case. The girl seeks refuge in the old mans attic one night when the head-mistress has called the police to arrest her. When she meets the man in the wheelchair, she sees him and know its her dad. She cries for him but it takes until the police are about to lock her up for him to notice. Once he does, they rush into eachother's arms and live happily ever after. The father buys the boarding school and refurbishes it (with the great wealth that he has), and he adopts the young servant girl his daughter befriended while working together.

After watching this movie, I realized the undertones that relate to Cinderella in this story. The daughter is forced to do horrible labor for "rude" girls at the school and she must live in rags in a dark, leaky room. The head-mistress locks her in the room with no food when she calls the police, and the girl must runaway from her sitaution to get a better life. From the movie, it just reinforces that every little girl is a princess, no matter the situation in which she lives. One person may exploit you, but someone else may treasure you. We are all princesses.