![]() And as for her clothes…they were, to say the least, extremely odd. She had an obstinate chin cruel mouth and small arrogant eyes. ![]() Her face was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. Looking at her, you got the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half. You could see them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs. Or sometimes she puts them in the chokey. She had once been a famous athlete, and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence, and she still practices puts with children, she throws them trough the air. He liked to wear jackets with large brightly- colored checks and he sported ties that were usually yellow or pale green.Īnd if he comes home, he is watching TV and eats his dinner. Wormwood is a small ratty-looking man whose front teeth stuck out underneath a thin ratty moustache. He is dishonest, because he put sawdust into the car, and he takes the speedometer out and fiddles the numbers back. He is a dealer in secondhand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it. She wore heavy make-up and she had one of those unfortunate bulging figures where the flesh appears to be strapped in all around the body to prevent it from falling out.Įvery afternoon, she goes to Aylesbury to play bingo. She is a large woman whose hair was dyed platinumblonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots. Her parents don’t care about Matilda, they find her own daughter strange, ONLY because Matilda is very smart, and very pedantic. She has a magic power with her brain, she can move things. She is very intelligent, and she loves school. She is a small girl with brown hair and brown eyes. Her mind is humble and she is very quickly to learn something. Matilda wanted to stay with Miss Honey and live in her house. Matilda’s father decided to emigrate to Spain with his family. The plan succeeded and Miss Trunchbull was driven away. Matilda wanted to help Miss Honey and made a wonderful plan. ![]() Her guardian was the terrible Miss Trunchbull, the sister of her mother who had made her youth awful. Miss Honey has had a terrible childhood, because both of her parents died when she was very young. When she came there she was shocked about Miss Honey’s poverty. Matilda wanted to tell Miss Honey about her special power and went to Miss Honey’s house. She told this to Miss Honey, her lovely teacher. Than Matilda discovered she had a special power: she could pick up things with her brain without moving. Miss Honey was determined to help Matilda. Miss Trunchbull said “nonsense” and didn’t want to hear anything about it any more. Miss Honey went to the headmistress Miss Trunchbull, a very mean teacher, and told her that Matilda should be taken out of her class and placed immediately in the top class with the eleven-years-old children. ![]() Miss Honey noticed that Matilda was really very smart from the first day already. The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Most children begin primary school at five or even just before, but Matilda parents, who weren’t very, concerned one way or the other about their daughter’s education, had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance. When Matilda was five and a half, she went to school, Matilda was very happy about it. Another time Matilda borrowed a parrot and stuffed it upon the chimney where it made sounds like a ghost. She, for example put superglue in her dad’s hat, so he couldn’t take in off. So, Matilda started to punish them with some mischievous pranks to get their attention. They thought you should be interested in other things than books, like watching television for instance. Matilda’s parents didn’t like her and they hated reading books. At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hunkering after books.Īt the age of four she had read all the children books from the library and she started with books like: Nicolas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, and books from Charles Dickens. When she was at the age of one her speech was perfect and she knew as many words as most grown-up.īy the time she was three, Matilda had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that lay around the house. The story is about Matilda, a special little girl. Year: First published by Jonathan Cape, 1988.
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