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My review and impressions of the novel “Daddy long-legs” by Jean Webster

English teacher : Karagayeva Nurly Gilymgalikyzy

Municipal state institution "Secondary school N 3" of the education department of the Zhangalinsky district

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Abstract. This article is based on the novel «Daddy Long Legs» by Jean Webster. It tells about the adventures of Judy Abbott, a pupil of an orphanage. She did not have a loving family, an interesting childhood, a various hobbies and life in the orphanage was so terrible! But on the day when a mysterious guardian appears who wants a gifted student to have a better life, everything changes and his choice falls on Judy. That is, it speaks of special letters that she wrote to her long-legged daddy.

Key words: orphanage, guardian, trustee, letter, mysterious, daddy, college, lesson, friends, freshman, mistakes, knowledge.

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being pliable.” Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster, original name Alice Jane Chandler Webster, (born July 24, 1876, Fredonia, N.Y., U.S.—died June 11, 1916, New York, N.Y.), American writer who is best remembered for her fiction best-seller Daddy-Long-Legs, which was also successful in stage and motion picture adaptations.

Webster adopted the name Jean while attending the Lady Jane Grey School in Binghamton, New York. Webster, who was a grandniece of Mark Twain, showed an early interest in writing. While in college she contributed a weekly column to the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier and at the same time started writing the stories that were collected in her first book, When Patty Went to College (1903). Webster soon followed with The Wheat Princess (1905) and Jerry, Junior (1907), both inspired by her extended visit to Italy; The Four Pools Mystery (1908), published anonymously; Much Ado About Peter (1909); Just Patty (1911), more stories about her first character, who was perhaps modeled on Crapsey; and Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), her most popular work.

Daddy-Long-Legs, first serialized in the Ladies’ Home Journal, became a best-seller when published in book form. It was a successful stage play (1914) in Webster’s own adaptation, and a popular Mary Pickford silent film (1919). Daddy-Long-Legs was not only a successful piece of fiction but also a stimulus to reform the institutional treatment of orphans. In 1914 Webster published Dear Enemy, a sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs and also a best-seller.

The story tackles the life of Jerusha Abbott or Judy, a name she picked out herself. Jerusha lives in the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. She has no memory of her parents and no experience of life outside the orphanage. Being the oldest of the pupils, she has to work hard for her pension , helping to take care of the other kids. They were badly fed and had to wear other people's discarded clothes. Despite the sad and boring life she leads, she is a cheerful and creative person and has a talent for writing.

The letter “Blue Wednesday” explains why Daddy long legs chose her. After Perfectly Awful Day, a trustee of the John Grier orphanage Mrs Lippet has invited the oldest orphan-- Jerusha Abbott. As she came downstairs, she saw only shadow of tallness man. As it turned out, this gentleman have an immoderate sense of humor. He read one of the essays she has written for school talking about her life as an orphan child, and it impresses him so much that he decides to pay for her to go to college, believing that she has potential to become a writer. But he sets a strange condition: Jerusha must write a letter to him every month, telling him about her life and her studies, and she must never expect any letters from him in return.

Jerusha has only had the chance to see this mysterious man once from the back, and the only thing she knows…