Two unwanted children…share a vitalizing secret… The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett Puffin Classics Rs. 180 Nine-year old Mary Lennox is a disagreeable orphan‚ who is sent to her uncle’s desolate mansion in England. Misselthwaite Manor‚ however‚ conceals plenty of secrets…which seem to be waiting to be discovered… On realising that she has nothing better to do‚ Mary spends all her time in the vast gardens surrounding her uncle’s mansion. It is not until the day when a friendly
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1 She chirped‚ and talked‚ and coaxed and he hopped‚ and 2 Flirted his tail and twittered. It was as if he were talking. His red 3 Wasitcoat was like satin and he puffed his tiny breast out and 4 Was so fine and so grand and so pretty that it was really as if he 5 Were showing her how important and like a human person a 6 Robin could be. Mistress Mary forgot that she had ever been 7 contrary in her life when he allowed her to draw closer and 8 closer to him‚ and bend down and talk and try
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Book Review on The Secret Garden Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary of the story Mary Lennox was a spoilt little girl and lived in India. Her parents were rich and she had maids working for her. But when her maids and parents died of a disease‚ 9 – year – old‚ Mary Lennox is sent to her Uncle’ s mansion on the Yorkshire Moors. But a tragedy happened ten years ago and her Uncle has never recovered from it. Miserable Mary started to explore the gardens of the house. Led
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“Explore The Secret Garden’s representation of illness and recovery.” The Secret Garden‚ written by Frances Hodgson Burnett‚ is a children’s story that has endured enormous popularity since its publication in 1911. The novel centres round a young and lonely protagonist‚ Mary Lennox. Mary’s journeys in The Secret Garden- both physical and spiritual- have been followed by child readers and often remembered long into adulthood. The text communicates to readers themes such as death‚ sickness‚ and
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So long as I know what’s expected of me‚ I can manage.” And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” 8) Perspective. Sometimes its all about perspective. If you look for the negative‚ that’s all you’ll find. Try looking for positive things in your life. You will find some. “If you look the right way‚ you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett‚ The Secret Garden Review I think that on second reading‚ and reading critically
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aspect of her identity. This is family. When May looks back on having “tea parties underwater.” With her brother‚ It’s a happy memory. In another world‚ friends and family are most important to Mary Lennox‚ the young protagonist of the film “The Secret Garden.” Director Agneiska Holland incorporates an idea of belief in magic and the supernatural in moments of importance throughout. The opening scenes are set in India which Mary
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Abby McDermitt The Secret Garden One of the major themes in this novel is the relationship between landscape and a person’s welfare. One of the most important ways that the novel shows this theme is by creating an opposition between India and England. The novel subtly attributes Mary’s childhood sickness to her time in India: "Her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." India is consistently presented as a place which gives off
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The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett was a heartfelt and inspiring novel along with one of the most popular. The Secret Garden focuses around the life of a young girl they call Mary Lennox whom became an orphan and eventually was sent away to Yorkshire mansion where she resided with her uncle‚ Mr. Craven. Mary believed living with her uncle would be the worst situation she had ever come upon‚ but little did she know it would become a life changing experience. The novel itself was
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going to see the garden!’” The first thing Mary can think of doing when she wakes up is going to the secret garden. I feel as if it pulls her in‚ as if Mary is attracted to the feeling she has when inside the garden. It’s beauty makes her see beauty in the rest of the world‚ like the beauty she sees in Dickon and his critters. She is drawn to the happiness it brings and then spreads the happiness through everything she says and does. “There was every joy on earth in the secret garden that morning‚
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What do these texts suggest to you about the interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life altering choices‚ as well as attempt to secure the satisfaction of self-fulfillment and the effect of adversity on the human spirit? “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”‚ the author suggests that
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