Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Story Title: Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl
Review:
This story is about a little girl called Matilda who had extraordinary brain powers. Matilda's parents didn't notice that their daughter was special and called her dirty names like"ignorant little squirt". Matilda's brother was a perfectly normal little boy but she wasn't. By the age of one and a half, her speech was perfect and she known as many words as most adults. When she was three, Matilda taught herself to read by studying magazines and newspapers that lay around they house. She hankered after books after reading all the newspapers and magazines in the house but her father did not allowed her to buy a book. Nearly every afternoon, Matilda was left alone in the house. Her brother went to school, her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo. She was addicted to bingo and would play it five afternoons a week. After being refused by her father to not buy a book, Matilda set out all by herself to the plublic library. Matilda was only four years and three months that time. After reading all the children's books, Matilda started on books by Charles Dickens.
When Matilda went to school, she was five and a half. She was cleverer than all her classmates and can even do harder things of multiplication like 14 times 19 when even her teacher needs to work it out on a piece of paper. Matilda also understands what's a limerick and even create a limerick about her teacher, Miss Honey. Miss Honey recommend to the headmistress, that Matilda was a genius and should be placed in the top form with the eleven-year-olds. Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress, barked at her refusing to let Matilda be placed in the top form. Miss Trunchbull also heard from Matilda's father that Matilda is a bad lot and even accused Matilda of putting a stink bomb under her desk.
After Matilda's and Miss Honey's relationship became closer, she was shocked to found out that Miss Honey's aunt has actually Miss Trunchbull and she trackied Miss Honey into giving her teacher's pay every month to her. It was suspicious to everyone that death of Miss Honey's father was by Miss Trunchbull. Matilda, in order to help Miss Honey practiced something using brain power...
NOTE : Agatha : Miss Trunchbull ; Jenny : Miss Honey; Magnus : Miss Honey's father.
On the day Miss Trunchbull came to Matilda's class ...
Matilda wrote on the board controlling the chalk using her brainpower pretending to be a ghost of Magnus making Miss Trunchbull to return Miss Honey's wages and house to her otherise he will come and get her like how she got him. After reading, Miss Trunchbull fainted. The next day, Miss Trunchbull disappeared and the wages and house were returned to Miss Honey.
The headmaster was changed and Matilda were put in the top form. But she did not have any extraordinary powers anymore as brain powers were used for having to struggle and strive and kepp really busy as she's competing against people more than twice her age.
When she went home, her parents were busy packing their luggages to escape to Spain as her father's a receiver of stolen cars from all over the country and selling them to other people.
Matilda begged her praents to let her stay with Miss Honey. Her parents agreed so that they have one less to take care of.
SO, Matilda and Miss Honey live HAPPILY AFTER AFTER ..
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