Characterization

Meg Cabot is the author of the Princess Diaries series. Mia Thermopolis is the main protagonist in the series, and she has some pretty interesting personalities and life.

Mia has low self-esteem, and she cares a lot about her looks. Mia thinks she is a freak, and at a part she says,"I know I am hideous, and all of that,". Which explains that Mia herself thinks that she is hideous and ugly. And she also thinks that she's too tall, and that her feet her huge. Mia wants to look like her mother, who is very pretty.

The most main problem in Mia's life is that she's a princess, and not just any kind of princess, she's a princess that 's worth three hundred million dollars! Mia has a lot to deal with when she's a princess. On her diary, she writes that she "Can't go anywhere without a bodyguard, and I must maintain neutral opinion on important topics such as the meat industry and smoking and the Taliban, and have to take princess lessons with grandma." In the first book, she practically goes crazy when she learns that she's a princess, and she was totally stressed and worried about being a princess.

Mia loves animals a lot, and she's a vegetarian. And when she grows up, she knows she has to rule Genovia but she wants to work for Greenpeace, and save baby seals and whales. For instance, she says "...but really, it's ridiculous how scared that dog is of me. And I love animals!". She especially cares a lot for her pet cat named Fat Louie.

I think Meg Cabot described Mia pretty well, about her being the regular teenage girl who has the same problems as normal people such as hating and flunking Algebra, sitting at the reject table and getting the evil eyes from popular cheerleaders. I like how Meg Cabot characterized Mia, with her not being all posh even though she's a royalty.