Review of an article “A Princess”

My classmate Nancy wrote an interesting article named “A Princess,” When it comes to a princess, most people would think a princess is beautiful, kind, assiduous and willing to help others. However, Nancy has different thoughts in the composition and really caught my eyes on the website.

In the introductory paragraph, the author briefly told us about her different opinion in the thesis statement “However, when I grow up, “princess” changes into a negative lexicon which is used to describe a spoilt female, especially a teenager, with really different personality and nature from the princess in the stories. This type of girls is also called “princess,” because they suffer from the so-called Princess Syndrome.” I agreed with the author’s opinions, because she described the idea just like what I thought before. I had a friend named Daisy, she was rich, pretty and confidence than my other friends, but she had awful personalities that made her become no friends. She was arrogant and vanity, no matter when or where, she always kept telling us how wealthy her family, how many new stuffs she got, how terrible to make a poor friend, and so on. She did not care about anything but herself. In this paragraph, I think that author give a good hook to get readers attention.

In the first supporting paragraph, the topic sentence is “I do not talk about the real princesses in the fairytales and the monarchic countries.” This sentence could let readers clearly know, the author wanted to discuss a princess not in fairytales. Then, she gave an example of her friend, Mandy. The author said “In reality, there is a “princess” beside me in the senior high school whose name is Mandy. She is also beautiful, tall, and confident but she is much unlike the princess in my ideal and childhood. What is more, her father is like a king because he is rich and powerful. She does not like to study and go to the library. Also, she never takes a broom or a mop during the clean-up time because she says only the maid does the cleaning.” In this paragraph, I think that the organization is clear and simple.

In the second supporting paragraph, the topic sentence is “Mandy is so overbearing that she looks down upon everyone.” The author gave more examples to show us what is princess syndrome and what a princess Syndrome person would be. For instance, Mandy has two followers, Amber and Nikita; some people call them M.A.N; all of them are the numbers of the dancing club; many boys like Mandy because of her appearance and she enjoys ridiculing those who are poor and not good at dancing. Because she regards herself as a princess, so she is self-centered and does not think of others. The author also mentioned about her experience “I remember that she once played a joke on a poor girl by scrawling on her books and putting fake cockroaches in her bags.” In this paragraph, I can easily understand the definition of princess syndrome that author gave.

In the third supporting paragraph, the topic sentence is “Contrastive to Snow White who has many animal friends around her, Mandy does not have any true friend.” The author compared her friend Mandy with Snow White that can make readers easier to contrast those two types of the princess. Then, the author gave more information to illustrate her topic sentence “She never treats others sincerely and enthusiastically.” The author did not think Nikita and Amber are her friends, because they just want to flatter and please her. For example, they have to do the homework for her, carry her bag, and be an accessory to her. Moreover, most her boyfriends are handsome and tall, they are dandies. It seems that their love is built on the appearance and fascination rather than devotion and affection.

In the last conclusion paragraph, the topic sentence is “In all honesty, I would rather be a confident, hard-working, and tolerant ordinary person than being a princess.” Although the author said in the introductory paragraph that she wanted to be a princess, after several comparisons, she just wanted to be an ordinary person. In author’s opinion, those girls were spoiled by their parents, friends, and boys, so they thought that they could do everything they want and nobody would blame on them. I agreed with the author, because my friend Daisy had same problems like Mandy, and I could not tolerate those behaviors happening on me. Although I have same fascinated by the princesses in fairytale like author, now I realize an ideal fairytale princess is difficult to find in reality.

Celine (777/2000)