The movies main character is Sara Crewe. She comes from a wealthy background and has a very compassionate, loving personality. She loves her widowed father very much, who is a Captain in the Army. Her mother died when she was very young, her only memory is a pendant with her mother’s photo inside given to her by her father.

The movie begins in India where she is exposed to Hindu stories and way of life. Her father is stationed there in the Army, and is suddenly called to war forcing the family to leave India. Sara is then sent from her carefree environs of India to a strict New York boarding school while her father is away at war.

She then meets the headmistress of the board school, Miss Minchin. Miss Minchin seems to take an

I believe reunion with the divine is also show as Sara is reunited with her father in the end of the movies. Reunion with the divine is the goal of all Hindus as it is the end of the path or cycle of continual birth and rebirth. The ideals of Hinduism are seen through “A Little Princess” but one must know these basic ideals to see them.

Miss Minchin later learns the Captain Crewe has died in battle and lost all of his wealth leaving Sara penniless. Sara is then reduced to a servant girl acting as an indentured servant to the school. She continues to secretly tell her stories to her friends in the attic, and even befriends an Indian man with a pet monkey.

In addition to the story being Hindu, I believe the basic characteristics of Sara are also reflective of the Hindu religion. “Moral Life is one that coincides with the natural universe, the dharma.” I believe Sara is exemplifying the moral values of Hinduism. I believe the movie shows all of the 5 virtues of the Hindu catechism of Non

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