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Matilda Research Paper
Matilda

Too smart for her own good, is a legendary saying used for people that are so smart that at the end of their life it can be dangerous for them. In the fantastic story Matilda written by Roald Dahl, the author describes a young girl's life that is affected by lack of love and affection and her being too intelligent for her age and time.

It was the beginning of summer in 1993 the climate was starting to get hot and the Wormwood family didn't pay much attention to Matilda and her incredible abilities. The local color and verisimilitude of the setting consists in the typical modern-day English village, lots of houses with gardens full of flowers infront of each house, people walking their dogs in the street, cars passing by,
kids
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While her mother was playing bridge all day and her used car salesman father was at work,
Matilda walked to the public library and read books all afternoon. Matilda's parents were both so warmless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about Matilda. Afterward, Mr.
Wormwood decided to take Matilda to school; in school Matilda found lots of friends and two special teachers, Miss Honey the gentle teacher and Miss
Trunchbull the head teacher, a harsh and ruthless woman. Miss Trunchbull treated the kids awfully in her school, so Matilda with her extra powers decided too .
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Those who carry out the most important actions in a story are considered main participants. Matilda is the only main personality in this story, she is young girl that loves reading. Matilda suffered a lot at the beginning of the story because her family didn't love her the way she wanted to be loved. Matilda went to Crunchen Hall school. Full description of this character is
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Another character found in this selection is Miss Trunchbull. She is fully described physically during the story, she is big, ugly, fat, harsh, ruthless, and mean. Miss Trunchbull is a dynamic character. She hates kids and is the head teacher of Miss Honey one of the teachers in Matilda's school. Miss Honey is another secondary character. She is the typical nice and gentle teacher, that every kid in school loves. She is also fully physically described personality, she has brown hair, brown eyes, tall and skinny. She is a static character. Last but not least we find Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, Matilda's insensitive, careless and selfish parents. They are not fully described and they are static characters.

The conflict of the story begins when Matilda discovered her magical powers.
The story's struggle was about to be solved when Matilda starts using her magical powers to the people that didn't treat her nice, like Miss Trunchbull and Matilda's Parents. Foreshadowing is not included in this selection. The action that determines the conflict's solution is


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