Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:27 am
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I enjoyed it.
Fauntleroy - his family name.
Little Lord - well, his family are Lords.
Now, the thing is, he grew up his very earliest years not knowing that. This means when he gets to the castle, he gets a cultural shock like Heidi in Frankfurt. If you know Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The theme is how he remains perfectly loyal to the poor family he grew up with.
The point *possibly* being that nobility is not just what family one is born to and whether one lives in castle or hut.
There seem to my memory to be story lines on his running away from the castle to get back to the family and his getting kidnapped by ruffians (or nearly so) hoping to get a nice ransom for a little lord.
Ajnos, does my memory seem correct?
Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:18 pm
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Statistics: Posted by albero1 — Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:52 am
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As for the story, it was cute, but I couldn't help thinking throughout that Fauntleroy was an extreme Gary Stu (the male version of a Mary Sue). No one is *that* perfect and it kinda annoyed me, especially since he had a good character and was good-looking, with a kinda veiled implication that the two go together. Not one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's best (although, as I said; a cute story).
Statistics: Posted by Ajnos — Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:35 am
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I never read Anne of Green Gables, but somehow it made me think of LLF.
Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:03 pm
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