Characters
<Main
Characters>
Sara
Crewe – Sara is a loving, intelligent, and humble girl who used to live in
India. She likes to read and write books and is also known as an amazing
storyteller. Although not very pretty, Sara attracts the attention of others. She
shows matured behavior despite being young. With her mother gone, she loves her
father very much who later puts her in Miss Minchin’s seminary boarding school
for women in London. Sara finds comfort with
her doll named Emily which Sara bought with her father before getting to the
seminary. However, Sara’s father dies in the diamond mining business, and Sara
starts to face conflicts. Sara stands strong and tries to be like a princess
not complaining no matter what situation is. Later, a friend of Sara’s father
named Mr. Carrisford finds Sara and decides to take care of her.
Miss
Minchin – She is the headmistress of the seminary who antagonizes Sara in the
story. She wears glasses and has thin body and sharp look. She is really mean
and high-tempered to those who are poor but kind-hearted to those who are
wealthy. She flatters Sara’s father and pretends to be friendly when Sara is
with her father. Since Sara is intelligent, Miss Minchin is quite jealous of
Sara, but still treats her kindly because of her rich father. However, when
Miss Minchin hears news from Mr. Barrow, the solicitor of Crewe that Sara’s father
is dead, Miss Minchin starts to treat Sara more meanly than she treats the
other poor people. Miss Minchin decides to keep Sara as her servant and gives
Sara a lot of difficulties by ordering her to do many harsh things and errands.
<Minor
Characters>
Miss
Amelia - She is Miss Minchin’s sister who is kind, friendly, and caring,
but always is in the shadow of her sister.
Miss Amelia follows everything that Miss Minchin says and never dares to
go against her because of fear. However,
she later gets the courage to tell Miss Minchin that it was not right to
mistreat Sara.
Becky – She
is a young maid in Miss Minchin’s boarding school. Although Miss Minchin hits
Becky often, Becky continues to work hard to support her family. Becky accidentally sleeps in Sara’s cozy chair
because of exhaustion, but when Sara finds Becky sleeping in her room, she
feels compassion and begins to treat Becky kindly. Becky sees Sara is different from other rich
people and becomes Sara’s loyal friend.
Ermengarde
– She is a loyal friend to Sara whom she admires. She gets stressed from her
father’s expectation, but she is not as intelligent as he thinks. Inspired by Sara,
she secretly goes to Sara’s room to hear her stories every night.
Lottie –
Being the youngest girl in the seminary school, she is stubborn and childish,
crying too much until she gets what she wants. However, her mind and attitude
somehow change after she meets Sara, who volunteers to be her mother.
Lavinia –
She is the oldest in the seminary but arrogant and bossy. She hates Sara since
everyone’s attention is shifted from her to Sara. She tries to trouble Sara by
telling bad things about Sara to Miss Minchin.
Mr.
Carrisford – He is Crewe’s friend and partner in the diamond mining business.
After he finds out about Crewe’s death, he feels so guilty that he decides to
look for his friend’s daughter and take care of her as his daughter. He feels
so depressed when he could not find the daughter even though he searched for
her all over the world. However, he finally finds out that Sara who has been
staying beside his house is the one he has been looking for.
<Other Characters>
Emily - Sara's doll
Melchisedec - the rat in Sara's attic room
Ram Dass - Indian servant of Mr.Carrisford
The Large Family- the neighbor beside the boarding school
Mr. Barrow - Crewe's solicitor
