Princess Diana Novel Summary

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r. Rudi Har!ono for his guidance of completing this assignment.

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DISCUSSION

$. The title of the book is %&rincess 'iana(.

2. The author is )herr! *ilchrist.

+. "e chose this book because the book tells a stor! of a beautiful and famous lad!,

&incess 'iana. "e often hear the name ad! 'i, but we do not know her stor! well.

This book tells us the life and love stor! of &rincess 'iana.

-. *enerall!, the stor! takes place in ondon, England.

. The main character of the stor! of course &rincess 'iana herself. Also there are

another character such &rince )harles, &rince "illiam, &rince Harr!, )amilla, and so

on.

The stor! is about &rincess 'iana/s life. How she does her 0ob as a princess, how her marriage with &rince )harles is and so on. This stor! guides us to know 'iana/s life

from her birth until her last time.

1. The main conflict in the stor! is the problem of 'iana and )harles/s marriage. This is

a marriage of three. The stor! tells how 'iana passes the entire problem as a princess.

. "e like the book because the book is eas! enough to understand. The language used is

so light and it helps the stor! delivered well. Reading this book is like seeing a 'iana/s

life from the beginning to end. The stor! represents ever!thing about 'iana.

3. 4ummar!.

)hapter $ 5 The *irl with a 6uture

'iana 4pencer was born on $ 7ul! $81$ in 4andringham, 9orfolk from a couple

6rances and 7ohnnie 4pencer. 4he has two sisters, 4arah and 7ane. :n $81-, her parents

got a bab! bo!, named )harles. 'iana/s life run ver! well, until her parents marriage

was unhapp!. "hen 'iana was onl! six, her mother, 6rances, ran awa! with another

man, &eter 4hand ;!dd.

"hen 'iana was nine, she went to Riddlesworth Hall 4chool. 4he was a good student.

At school she began to be interested in charit!.

)hapter 2 5 A 6air!<Tale "edding

'iana met &rince )harles for the first time at a funeral. A !ear later, 7ul! $83=, &rince

)harles began to look at 'iana with new e!es. &rince )harles was alread! +2. )harles

was twelve !ears older than 'iana. 6rom then on he was seriousl! interested in her

and asked her out for several dates. >ne da!, )harles and 'ianaa were fishing down



b! the River 'ee. 4uddenl! the! noticed someone on the other side of the river, a

reporter. 'iana tried to escape but soon the reportes knew her name and it was in all

the newspaper. 'iana/s life had been changed. :n 6ebruar! $83$ &rince )harles asked

her to marr! him, and she agreed. ?ut not ever!thing was perfect. There was a black

shadow at the center of the fair!<tale. 4he understood that )harles/s old girlfriend,

)amilla &arker<?owles, was still ver! important to him. 'iana got thinner and even

wanted to stop the wedding but her sisters told her to go on. 4o on 28 7ul! $83$,

&rince )harles married ad! 'iana 4pencer in 4t &aul/s )athedral, ondon.

)hapter + 5 The @oung &rincess

As the wife of a prince, 'iana should come to the surface and meet lots of people. The

sh! girl now should be able to speak in front of her people. Also she learnt how to getdressed well. 4ometimes she chose bravel! 5 a low<cut, short black dress, for example.

Then 'iana became a mother too. Her first bab!, "illiam, was born on 2$ 7une $832

and her second bab!, &rince Harr!, was born two !ears later. 'iana was now a bus!

princess, wife and mother. 4he wanted to have the same famil! as others and look after

her sons b! herself. "hen she was 2-, she was working with eighteen charities.

Ever!one likes her and she was popular. ?ut in private, she was alone with her

troubles.

)hapter - < The "oman :nside

'iana/s life as a &rincess going worse. 4he felt tired and tr!ing to do suicide for times.

4he married for love, but perhaps )harles didn/t. :n public, the! were still husband

and wife, but in private the! life in separate part. 'iana was working hard for the

Ro!al 6amil! and the countr!. "hen her health got worse, )arol!n asked her to see

doctor. Then she got a treatment from a doctor and going better. 4he learnt to give her

love to the poor and ill people that she met through her charit! work. ?ut ever!thing

got worse. At home, there are )harles person/ and 'iana person/. The! now lived

two separate lives in the famil! too. 'iana was beginning to make a new life for

herself. :t was difficult, and she was often unhapp!, but it was the onl! wa! out.

)hapter 5 The 9ew 'iana

$882 is a terrible !ear for 'iana. :n this !ear, her much<loved father died and her

sister/s marriage, 4arah, with &rince Andrew was over. Then a new book come out



about &rincess 'ianaB 'iana 5 Her True 4tor! b! Andrew orton. ?ut there was

another surprise coming from her, she was beginning secretl! to look for a new love in

her life. 4ome of the men was noticed b! public. 6inall! in 'ecember $882 'iana and

)harles told the public that the! were separating. 'iana loves her sons so much. 4he

was doing her best for them. 'iana/s new life had good times in it. 4he had plent! of

friends. At the same time, 'iana couldn/t escape from the papara##i. :n 9ovember

$88 she talked on television to reporter about her life in the Ro!al 6amil!. 4he told

that there was three in the marriage. 4he also said that she do things differentl!. After

her appearance on television, she became more seriuos on her charit!. 'iana once

said, :/m not frightened of d!ing, if : can die happ!./

)hapter 1 5 Her ast 'a!s'iana/s marriage ended in August $881. 4he had a good summer in $88. 4he visited

her brother in 4outh Africa. 4omething ver! special was happening in 'iana/s life that

summer too. 4he has a new bo!friend. This was 'odi Al 6a!ed. &apara##i was also in

ever!where 'iana in. 'iana and 'odi were deepl! in love and wanted to have a

holida!. ?ut suddenl! papara##i ended their holida!. The! were tr!ing to escape from

the papara##i. The papara##i pursuing them Cuickl!. Dnfortunatell!, the car which

bring 'iana and 'odi run too fast. :t hit a wall. The crash killed 'odi and the driver at

once. 'iana was still alive, but she was ver badl! hurt. 4he died at about four o/clock

in the morning. 'uring the week, newspaper, television and radio were full of 'iana/s

sad stor!. Also the m!ster! about the car crash was growing. "e know now that the

driver, Henri &aul, had too much to drink that evening. 4ome people even thought that

it was murder. 'iana/s funeral was one week after she died. Ever!one was sad of this.

ots of bunch of flowers build the sea of flower outside ;ensington &alace. 'iana/s

life stor! is over, but her stor! is not. :t/s important to show love/, said 'iana.

oral valueB

'iana had shown us that she could hide her pain for her herself. As a princess she

would like to be seen as a happ! woman and make her people strong b! seeing the

princess/s strength. 4ometimes we need to hide our pain to make another person

strong, even though it is hard.



'etails of &rincess 'iana/s 4tor!

Characters Setting of Place Setting of Time

Chapter 1 – The Girl with a Future

6rances 4andringham, 9orfolk $ 7ul! $81$7ohnnie 4pencer &ark House $81-

)harles ?uckingham &alace, ondon )hristmas

4arah "indsor )astle $8=

7ane ?almoral )astle, 4cotland $82

&eter 4hand ;!dd Riddlesworth Hall 4chool $8-

Raine "est Heath 4chool, ;ent $8

?arbara )artland Althorp, 9orthamptonshire $8

)arol!n &ride )oleherine )ourt, ;ensington $83

@oung England 4chool

Chapter – ! Fair"#Tale $e%%ing

&rince )harles )larence House 6ebruar!, $83$

Robert 6ellowes Australia 7ul! $83=

'avid and Eli#abeth Emanuel 4t &aul/s )athedral, ondon Holida!

)amilla &arker<?owles 28 7ul! $83$, The "edding

Chapter & – The 'oung Princess

"illiam Arthur &hilip ouis Tetbur! 2$ 7une $832

&rince Harr! Highgrove, )loucestershire $ 4eptember $83-

"a!ne 4leep 4t ar!/s Hospital, ondon 4eptember $83

4arah 6erguson 9ew ealand

&rince Andrew )anada

"etherb! 4chool

Chapter ( – The $oman Insi%e

Andrew &arker<?owles )anada 9ovember, $832

Hugh indsa! a0orca 7anuar!, $832

4wit#erland $831

$83

$833



Chapter ) – The New Diana

Andrew orton Austria 28 arch $882

7ames *ilbe! Ta0 ahal, :ndia 9ovember $882

7ames Hewitt ;orea 'ecember $882"ill )arling Eton 'ecember $88+

>liver Hoare 4an oren#o restaurant 9ovember $88

Elton 7ohn *reat >rmond 4treet Hospital $88-

*eorge ichael imbabwe, Africa

Terence 4tamp &akistan

Richard Attenborough :ndia

uciano &avarotti

ichael 7ackson

&aul F inda c)artne!

i#a inelli

artin ?ashir

Chapter * – +er ,ast Da"s

*ianni Gersace Angola August $881

'odi Al 6a!ed ?osnia 4ummer, $88

Henri &aul 4outh Africa 7ul! $88

Trevor Rees<7ones :tal! 2$ August

)orsica 4aturda!, += August

4ardinia 4aturda!, 1 4eptember $88

6rance 6rida! night

&aris

River 4eine

"ensminster Abbe!

H!de &ark



-ecor% of out class rea%ing

9ame of group B &rincess 'iana

embers B .la No/itasari, @eni ul!ani, 9idaul Hasanah, uki

4ofi!atul ;hulCi!ah

9ame Ela 9ovitasari

'ate April 2nd 2=$-

Reading time .-1 5 . am 8 minutesI

$$.2 5 $$.+3 am 3 minutesI

8.+2 5 $=.=8 pm + minutesI

Total Reading time - minutes

"hat do !ou read $. >pening J )hapter $ 1pagesI

2. )hapter 2 - pagesI

+. )hapter + 5 1 21 pagesI

)omments

6rom the beginning, the stor! is eas! to

understand. The conflict is interesting but

unfortunatel!, the ending is sad.

In%i/i%uall" list of 0uestions

$. : didn/t find an! great difficulties. The difficult! is onl! in time management and

several new vocabularies which bothered the reading process.

2. "hen facing the new vocabularies, : skip those vocabularies and continue reading.

+. : like the book so much.

-. : read this book in + session, the times are 8 minutes, 3 minutes and + minutes.

. Entirel! : read the book two times. 6irst time, : read the book to know the whole stor!.

The second time : read slower than before to find out the detail such as setting of

place, name of the characters and so on.

1. : read m! two first session on the wa! to m! kindergarten. 4o, : automaticall! stopped

reading when : arrived. The third session of m! reading was finished on m! rest time

at night.

. : did brief preview on the book b! seeing the cover, list of content, the pictures and

also the s!nopsis.

3. :n the first time of reading, : make sure that : am read! to read.

8. : found some new vocabularies, such as tea<towels, fair hair, and landmines.



$=. : have one extensive reading before.

$$. : have finished reading novel r. 7ek!ll and r. H!deI, several short stories and also

articles.





embers B Ela 9ovitasari, 'eni ul"ani, 9idaul Hasanah, uki

4ofi!atul ;hulCi!ah

9ame @eni ul!ani

'ateApril ,$=th 2=$-

April, $1th 2=$-

Reading time =+.+= 5 =+.= pm 2= minutesI

=8.+= 5 $=.+= am $ hourI

Total Reading time $ hour 2= minutes

"hat do !ou read $. )hapter $ 5 2 $- pagesI2. )hapter + 5 1 22 pagesI

)omments

)hapter $ and 2 of the stor! is not interesting

but the conflict began from chapter + until

the end make me sta! on to read it. :t/s a ver!

ama#ing stor!.

In%i/i%uall" list of 0uestions

$. "hen : read this book : didn/t find an! difficulties but there are some difficult words

that : never found it before.

2. : tried to find the difficult words in dictionar! and read it to find the meaning.

+. : love this book so much.

-. 6or the first session : read for 2= minutes and the second session : read for 1= minutes.

. : read this book twice.

1. "hen : read this book, there are man! troubles that made me pause to read such as

sleep!, chapter one till two is not interesting to read.

. : didn/t do neither preview, scanning nor skimming.

3. 6or the first time in reading, : see the cover and the picture in each pages, so read the

s!nopsis.

8. : found four difficult words such asB sensible, frightened, amu#ed, and funeral.

$=. : have done extensive reading before. The book is circle love. : read it in -th semester

$$. : ever finished reading english materials before, but : don/t remember the tittle.





embers B Ela 9ovitasari, @eni ul!ani, 9idaul Hasanah, ,u2i

Sofi"atul 3hul0i"ah

9ame uki 4ofi!atul ;hulCi!ah

'ate April th 2=$-

Reading time =3.$+ 5 =8.$ pm 2 hoursI

Total Reading time 2 hours

How man! pages readK $. >pening J )hapter $ 1 pagesI

2. )hapter 2 - pagesI

+. )hapter + 5 1 21 pagesI

"hat do !ou readK: read novella the tittle %&rincess 'iana(, author

)herr! *ilchrist

)omments

"hen : read chapter $<2 the stor! is not

interesting. ?ut in chapter + until the end, the

stor! is interesting and : en0o! to read it.

In%i/i%uall" 0uestionnaire

$. "hen : read this book : didn/t find an! difficulties but : found some new words in the

book.

2. : continued to read it, but : wrote new words on the book, then searched the new

words in dictionar! and read it to find the meaning.

+. : like the book so much. :t is a book about a famous woman in the world %&rincess

'iana(.

-. : read the book at night, for about 2 hours.

. : read this book onl! one session.

1. : paused to stop reading when : felt hungr! and thirst! and when : want to go to toilet.


3. 6or the first time in reading, : look at the cover. The cover is picture of &rincess

'iana, the famous Cueen of ?ritain. Then : read the s!nopsis.

8. : found some new words such as B charit!, plent!, amu#ed, sensible, and sCuidg!.

$=. : have read extensive reading a novel in -th semester.



$$. @es, : ever finished reading English materials such as in reading -, : read a novel the

tittle is %A *irl/s ?est 6riend(. :n last semester extensive reading $, : read some short

stor! like % 6amil! Affair(, %;ong saves Ann(, etc.





embers B Ela 9ovitasari, @eni ul!ani, Ni%aul +asanah, uki

4ofi!atul ;hulCi!ah

9ame 9idaul Hasanah

'ate April, th 5 $8 th 2=$-

Reading time

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$$.== 5 $+.== 2 hoursI

Total Reading time 3 hours

)hapter $ + pagesI)hapter $ + pagesI

)hapter 2 - pagesI

)hapter 2 + pagesI

)hapter + 2 pagesI

"hat do !ou read )hapter + + pagesI

)hapter + + pagesI

)hapter - - pagesI

)hapter + pagesI

)hapter 2 pagesI

)hapter 1 - pagesI

)ommentsThis book is ver! interesting. There are

sadness, happiness, and pain.

In%i/i%uall" 0uestionnaire



$. "hen : read the book, : found some difficult words.

2. : tried to find difficult word and open dictionar!.

+. : like the book, because the book tells a stor! of good princes, 'iana . 4he is a famous

woman in the world and also &rinces 'iana is strong woman.

-. 6or each session : read one hour, so for $ chapter : read $ to 2 da!s.

. : read this book for about two weeks and onl! once.

1. : stopped reading when : felt di##! and sleep!.


3. 6or the first time in reading, : started reading the s!nopsis and looking at the images.

8. : found some new words such asL crash, sensible, frightini#ed.

$=. : have done extensive reading before.

11.: ever finished reading material before, but : don/t remember the title.

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