30 Day Female Character Meme: Day 4

Day Four: A female character you relate to

Hermione Granger
I was thinking about what my answer would be while falling asleep (yes, I am a geek) and the way I interpreted this was the character I'm the most like. It was something I struggled a bit with seeing as how I'm not really like most of the female characters I can think of. The closest I got to that was Hermione. We're both big bookworms who got too caught up in rules and were a goody two shoes before we calmed down and relaxed a little bit. And yeah, we struggled a bit with making friends, but once we did, well, that was that. At times we are both a bit too concerned about being right, which leads to often being overeager in class.

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To anyone who doesn't know: I love love LOVE history. Seriously. Which was why Dad rented the movie Princess Kaiulani for me.

I do know some things about her. I read the Royal Diaries book about her when I was younger, which leads to me doing some research on her now and then, and she does pop up in some of my pleasure history books. I am, by no means, an expert, however. I certainly don't know as much about her as, say, the Tudors. So, here are my thoughts about the movie.

It was OK. Some of the scenery was beautiful, and, me being my usual shallow self, some of the dresses were pretty too. What got me was the whole made up love story, which got in the way of her story, which is an interesting one. We did get some of her fighting for her people's rights, yes. But not very much, or about her life being a, well, "ex princess" in the year before she died. Her withdrawal from life.  All of that would be very interesting story telling. Instead, we got a forbidden love story.