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

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