Title: Daddy Long Legs
Series: Daddy Long Legs #1
Author: Jean Webster
Genre: YA Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 137
Published: August 8th, 2003
First published: 1912
ISBN: 0486423670
ISBN-13: 9780486423678
Plot:
Jerusha Abbott is the oldest orphan at the John Grier Home and has to take care of the smaller children.
Her life isn't glorious at all, but one day she is sponsored by a man who want her to call him by the name "John Smith" and sends her to college.
The only thing he wants back is a letter every month to see how it goes for her and that she never will know who he is and he will never respond to her letters and he wants her to be an author.
Review:
I really liked this story, even though it took me sixteen days to finish the book.
Daddy long Legs is written mostly through letters that Judy is writing to her anonymous sponsor.
We get to know who she is as a person and how she evolves throughout the years of college.
I never understood how old she was at the beginning, but when the story ended she was 21 years old.
In her letters she writes mostly what happens in her life.
There's some school stuff in it as well, but mostly what she has read or about her friends and problems.
She once saw her sponsor's shadow, and his legs were just as long as the spider daddy long legs and that's when she knew it would be a perfect nickname instead of calling him Mr. Smith.
The text in the book made me confused sometimes.
For an example; the orphanage was called an asylum so I actually pictured a mental institution with screaming children instead of a regular orphanage in my head.
And the word queer showed up in a sentence that had a really funny meaning in it.
I don't remember the exact sentence, but it was something like this;
"The man was queer, but I think the men really enjoyed it"
I know it's not the word for gay in that sentence, but it really fit in really well.
In that sentence it's the word for "weird" in a nicer word.
Still funny.
It wasn't a great book, I mean the letters became pretty annoying after a while.
But I really liked the plot.
I've seen the cartoon based on this book and it was one of my favorites as a child.
That's the main reason why I read it to begin with.
This book deserves three stars.
3/5: For an example; the orphanage was called an asylum so I actually pictured a mental institution with screaming children instead of a regular orphanage in my head.
And the word queer showed up in a sentence that had a really funny meaning in it.
I don't remember the exact sentence, but it was something like this;
"The man was queer, but I think the men really enjoyed it"
I know it's not the word for gay in that sentence, but it really fit in really well.
In that sentence it's the word for "weird" in a nicer word.
Still funny.
It wasn't a great book, I mean the letters became pretty annoying after a while.
But I really liked the plot.
I've seen the cartoon based on this book and it was one of my favorites as a child.
That's the main reason why I read it to begin with.
This book deserves three stars.
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