Dealing With Dragons Character Analysis

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In the novel, Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, the main character Cimorene is not acting like a proper princess.Cimorene does not want to be a proper princess like her sisters and be forced to get married to prince Therandil.Cimorene is everything a princessis not suppost to be,like Cimorene is tomboyish,smart,and sometimes bored.Dealing with Dragons is about a princess named Cimorene,but the princess does not want to act like a proper princess.So she goes to another castle on a vacation with her family,but they realy want Cimorene to get married to a prince that she never meet, so Cimorene runs away to ask some dragons what she should do.Cimorene ends ups living with a dragon named Kazul so she didnt have to be like a proper princess and do what she pleases.This is the reasons for Cimorene not acting like a justified princess.Cimorene is justified in ignoring the expected social norms of her day,because she doesn’t like to do princess thing she likes to learn magic,ect. Additionally Cimorene made her her choice to become a dragon’s princess due her uncomfortable choice at home.Her choice was to become a dragon’s princess is fitting occupation,for someone of her position.and yet her non-traditional personality.Before Cimorene made her choice to be a dragon’s princess in (chapter 1 pages 8-13)Cimorene was going to marry a prince named Therandil,but she told him that he couldn’t marry her.Then a frog started talking to her and told her to go to some dragon’s to ask what she should do.When Cimorene finally took the

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