Princess Diana Chapter Summaries

“Smithy was not paying attention to the baby part. She was paying attention to the cancer part. Her mother had a 50% chance of dying. This baby, announced their mother, and she was smiling-Smithy always remembers that smile-is your brother or sister. A few days later, an ultrasound established that it was a baby boy. Mom was beaming. He’s healthy she said excitedly. You’re not, pointed the doctor. I’m tough. It’s only 5 more months. I’ll start chemo after the baby’s here. You’ll be dead by then. Mom shrugged.”

This is my favorite paragraph because this really shows how determined and proud she is to have a 4th baby. In this situation it is a life or death battle, but she chooses to have her baby and die rather than take chemo and have her

baby die. It also shows that she will persevere until her baby comes out. Also if it weren’t for this situation and the mom chose not to have the baby this book couldn’t have been this good. I think in the real world a mom would actually save her life even though it would be hard for the mother to lose her baby.

“In spite of the fact that Cheryl’s a big spacious woman covered with attractively tailored clothing adorned by with well-chosen jewelry, she seems slimy to Diana.

Diana thinks of her as a jellyfish floating on the surface, poisonous tentacles reaching down. Diana’s mother disapproves of talk like this. That’s just plain mean Diana.”

This is one of the most important paragraphs out of the whole book.This is saying not only do the kids who live the aunt think she is bad, but also the kids friend think she is a bad aunt. None of the kids like her because she doesn’t take good care of the kids. Also the the kids living with her are fixed on that the aunt is lying about what happened to their father. This paragraph is also leading to the climax. In the real world this is what happens if a rumor spreads or someone just thinks something without actual proof then it just spreads like wildfire.

“She parks behind the library. The children’s playground is fenced around so toddlers can’t run out among cars. Through the chain link, she sees Tris teetering at the top of the old-fashioned jungle gym, an open metal cube with crossbars. Her heart lurches. But Jack is there, of course he is. Jack lifts his big hands-hands that ought to be at practice-as a net for his brother. They both see her. Jack might be smiling. She pretends he’s smiling. She waves, even though Tris will not know her at

all.”
This paragraph is basically teaching us the theme which is that no matter what comes up, you have to stick with your family. This proves us, as it has been a long time since Madison; Jack’s and Tris’s big sister has seen them. Also it proves that Madison feels lonely or sad because she hasn’t seen her brothers in a long time and that is why Tris won’t recognize Madison. That is why Madison came back because she wants to reunite with the family and from this point Madison never left. In the real world I think family is really important and this happens a lot of the time people leave their family because they are depressed, but then they learn that family is more important because it could help solve their problems.