...MATILDA BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BY THE SAME AUTHOR James and the Giant Peach Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny, the Champion of the World The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More The Enormous Crocodile The Twits George's Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes The BFG Dirty Beasts The Witches Boy The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Going Solo Roald Dahl MATILDA Illustrations by Quentin Blake VIKING KESTREL For Michael and Lucy VIKING KESTREL Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books |N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1988 First American edition published 1988 3 5 7 9 10 6 4 Text copyright © Roald Dahl, 1988 Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 1988 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from "In Country Sleep" from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1947,1952 Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Library of Congress catalog card number: 88-40312 ISBN 0-670-82439-9 Printed...
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...FACE UP TO FACTS The main purpose for this piece of writing is for educational reasons and to show young people the consequences of making your personal details freely available on the internet. The reason the writer chose this topic is because he has seen comments from young people e.g. a 14 year old girl’s thoughts on not giving out your personal information were “who cares?” This shows us that a lot of young people don’t care about giving out information and don’t think how this could affect their future decisions or plans. This piece of writing is about “how to avoid risk and embarrassment”. It gives paragraphs showing statistics, public views, advice and many more. It states that teenagers shouldn’t give out information about their personal life and not to give out their details because it can be accessed by most people and can be unsafe; future employers or any others see silly pictures or posts that could make them think you are not responsible or capable then they wouldn’t hire you or keep you within the company. One picture or post can change your entire future jobs or plans. This piece gives you examples of what things you shouldn’t put on Facebook or Twitter etc. for example “don’t post your phone numbers”, “don’t put your personal details e.g. address” also “ don’t post pictures of you at parties or in school uniform with mates” These are a few examples of what you shouldn’t do on social networking sites. This piece of text is not very complex, it is...
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...Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Critiquing) The movie based on Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand was set in Buckinghamshire, Hascombe, and University of London and in London’s roads. The setting indicates that the story happened during the World War II. It was in a farm where a simple family lived. The father was away at war so the mother of three Green children has to keep the farm while she ran a job in the village shop. The overall atmosphere of the setting was cheerful. It was a family movie that is why most of the scenes were happy. There were no symbolic elements in the scenery because the main focuses of the story were the characters and the lessons of Nanny McPhee. Given the storyline of the movie, the actors and the actresses conveyed their roles well especially Emma Thompson who played Nanny McPhee. She looked wicked in her first appearance but behind that was a kind, good-natured lady. She was very good in controlling her emotion. I also liked Oscar Steer who played as Vincent Green. He was a cute little boy. Despite his age he was excellent in acting. He acts natural like he was just playing around. Eros Vlahos suits his role as a spoiled brat. He exhibited real emotions of a rich kid who seeks attention and a real friend to his cousin, Norman Green. He was Cyril Gray in the movie. The characters relate to each other. They express their lines well and put themselves into the roles that they have. There was the emotion, the attitudes, and the appropriate...
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...others; Matilda has developed positive relationships within her family unit. She looks forward to visiting extended family during the year outside of her home state. She enjoys spending time with her cousins and seeing how people live in different regions of the USA. Since the passing of her mother earlier this year, Matilda is learning to lean on her extended family more than she did before her mother passed earlier this year. Matilda's reaction to discipline and authority; Matilda communicates effectively with adults and expresses her feelings and disagreements in a positive manner. The amount of independence you give to Matilda; Matilda has a fair amount of independence. Living in Seattle...
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...performance of the national tour Matilda. The show is based on the famous children’s novel Matilda written by Roald Dahl however, the musical score is written by Tim Minchin. The musical originated in England’s West End in 2011 and then moved to Broadway in 2013 where it is currently still performing seven shows every week. The cast is filled with incredibly young actors who were able to capture the story brilliantly. I enjoyed the show and loved the musicianship that the actors displayed on the stage throughout the entire production. The first number was performed by the ensemble entitled "Miracle". The number wavered staccato and even though the...
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...“Buzzzzzzz ”, She woke up to the start of something new, horrid, life changing. “She” was Matilda Cook, 13 years old, living in Philadelphia during 1793. Matilda's journey was a mind-altering experience about a her facing the fever head on. It commenced when Matilda Cook’s best friend Polly died on one of hottest summers of the decade, due to the fever. She barely had anytime to mourn her friend’s death when her mother got sick with fever as well. Matilda knew something was amiss when her mother consigned her away with her grandpa to the country. But things didn't turn out that pleasant when the Chauffeur kicked them off because of a cough that was mistaken as the fever. leaving them stranded alone miles away from the city or farm lands. Then Matilda ends up waking up in a hospital after fainting to too much sun exposure and finding out she had the fever, but survived it. After hearing the crazy news her grandpa and her ended up going back to their coffee shop house in the city. and then getting robbed in the middle of the night. Due to a fight against a robber and her grandpa Matilda felt very alone without her grandpa, not to mention hungry. She set out to town to scavenge food but stumbled upon upon an orphan that just lost her mother, she took it upon herself to take her to the orphanage. But decided not to when she found Eliza, her coffee house maid, and close family friend. Confronted by Eliza's presence, she opened the coffee house once more with Eliza at first sight...
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...not many survived. Larry McMurtry used many of these characters to portray certain messages. Matilda Roberts is one of the few remaining people that survived all the cruel expeditions that took place in this novel. She is one of the few females shown in this novel. Matilda was a prostitute at the beginning of the novel. Then, later she retires from being a prostitute because she began falling in love with Shadrach. At the end of the novel, she takes on a mother like role, by taking care of Call and Gus. Matilda is clearly not like the typical "woman" around this time. In this time, women didn't have many opportunities to get a job. So, this is the main reason you see most women are prostitutes. Matilda had to become one to be able to earn money. So, she wanted to move away to start over. Matilda knew that the Rangers were about to start an expedition to Sante Fe. She was told that there was a route from Santa Fe to California. She wanted to move to California to own a fine bordello. With this, she wouldn't have to be a prostitute, but still earn money....
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...Comp questions Fever 1793 chapters 1-5 1. Matilda lives in Philadelphia. She lives towards the outskirts of Philadelphia away from the docks and all the commotion. She lives around there because it’s away from all the commotion and her father built the coffeehouse there as well. 2. Matilda’s family owns the coffee shop. Matilda’s father built it before he died and they are still working there. 3. Silas is Matilda’s cat. Silas seems very mischievous and sneaky. 4. Business at Matilda’s family’s coffeehouse boomed after President Washington’s house was built 9 blocks away. 5. Matilda’s Father died because he fell off a ladder, broke his neck and died. 6. King George was Matilda’s Grandfather’s Parrot. 7. Eliza was a free back slave working...
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...English 385 The Necklace In that moment after Matilda realized what has happened she was in shock. She stood in the face of her friend with total rage in heart. She was angry and immediately demanded the necklace back. She begins yelling at Ms. Forestier that she has been in debt the last 10 years to replace that necklace and now she wants the necklace back. Matilda offers to give her the original value of 500 francs for the necklace if she will return the necklace. Ms. Forestier declines. She explains that the necklace is one of her prize possessions and cannot part with. Matilda has a hard time accepting her response and tells Ms. Foreister if she refuses to return the necklace she would be sorry. They depart, Matilda returns home to explain to her husband what occurred. As Loisel is home relaxing, from his hard days work, his wife rushes in total rage. He is unaware of what transpired with Ms. Foreister but notices the utter turmoil on Matilda’s face. HE begins to ask what’s wrong before he can complete the statement Matilda begins to yelling “ We have worked the last 10 years paying off the necklace and it is not even real. I demanded that it be returned and she refused”. Loisel is confused, and unsure how to respond. Matilda proceeds to explain that she ran in to Ms. Foreister today and she acted as if she didn’t recognize whom she was. They begin to talk and she explained how she lost the necklace and worked 10 years to replaced it for 10,000 fances. Ms. Foreister...
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...by yellow fever. 14 year old Matilda Cook who lives with her mother Lucille, her grandfather, and their house cook Eliza in a coffeehouse, must try to make it through the fever. In the novel fever 1973 we learn many themes, but one important theme is maturity that teaches that even when going through the toughest situations people become grown-ups. First of all, when yellow fever has strike through the town of Philadelphia, Lucille is the first one to get the fever and doesn't want Matilda near her so she doesn't get sick too. So Lucile makes the decisions of sending grandfather and Matilda to a friends farm to keep them safe. Matilda wanted to stay with her mother but Eliza convinced her to go away and promised Matilda she would look after her mother. Once grandfather and Matilda had left Philadelphia and were on their way to their...
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...“Why hello there, I’m Matilda from the coffeeshop. You seem very tired and lonely.” I did feel tired, lonely… and hungry. “My name’s Peter… and yes I feel very lonely and hungry.” “Don’t mind coming down to the coffeeshop, do you?” “I can serve you a nice meal if you’d like,” Matilda asked kindly. “Okay, thank you,” I told her as I got up from the bench and dusted my clothes off. Matilda smiled, “This way.” We walked past the flock of chickens, which were going haywire! Feathers flying everywhere, I...
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...sickness, awful violence, and sudden death are all experiences that no child should have to go through. However, these experiences can change a person’s character completely in a helpful way. The main character, Matilda Cook, in the book Fever, 1793 experiences all of these things as a teenager. This book follows her story of how she makes it through the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, and how it changes her character and personality in a constructive way. This book was written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon & Schuster Books in 2000. Fever, 1793 is a horrifying, historical fiction book that is understood easily enough that anyone over the age of ten or eleven could read it, but the content can be graphic when scenes of sickness or death arise. Laurie Halse Anderson has also published popular books such as Speak and Wintergirls. The book Fever, 1793 is a powerful story of horrible sickness and death along with the transformation of a teenager into a mature, young adult. Stubborn Matilda lives in her family’s coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather, a parrot, and a cat. Just like everyone else at the coffeehouse, Matilda must get up early and do her chores, but Matilda is your average teenager. No teenager enjoys getting up early, and Matilda is no exception. I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear and my mother screeching in the right. “Rouse yourself this instant!” Mother snapped open the shutters and heat poured into our bedchamber...
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...Child’s Power and Authority Children and the Natural World Story Books and Telling Contrast: Childhood and Social Class Compare and Contrast: Matilda to the Prisoner of Azkaban Roald Dahl’s novel, “Matilda” tells the story of a young girl in oppression by her parents who show no interest in their daughter and is mean for sport. It is a story of triumph in which her intelligence and magical abilities taught her the ins-and-outs of life. But more importantly, it taught Matilda how to take care of herself. Similarly, J.K. Rowling’s novel, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” also addresses the oppression of the magical Harry Potter by his aunt and uncle and the various death threats on his life. I argue that if Harry and Matilda had not been oppressed, they would not have become the characters at the end of the novels. Matilda’s oppression started at birth. Upon her birth, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood showed no interest in her. She was viewed as a “scab” because it’s something you have to wait for until it can be snatched off and thrown away (Dahl 1). Based on their actions and attitude towards their daughter, her parents could wait to remove this scab. The narrator describes Matilda’s parents “half-witted” because they were unaware of the extraordinary ability their daughter. They were also unaware that at a very young age, Matilda knew how her parents felt about her (Dahl 1). Strangely, even with their dislike, the Wormwoods assumed their daughter was normal. Harry is a thirteen...
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...attacked by a DEA agent named “Stansfield” played by Gary Oldman, and his gang, due to the father stealing drugs from Stansfield. The only survivor of the attack is Matilda who happens upon the scene as she returns from shopping. Her only option is to knock on the door of the stranger she talks to in passing, Leon. After saving her life Leon teaches Matilda to “Clean” and begins to track down her family’s killers at the cost of her teaching him to read and washing his place. As the film unfolds a relationship blossoms between the two characters as they learn to depend on each other. I wish to evaluate the showdown scene near the end of the movie. After Leon has killed nearly every member of Stansfield’s team, Stansfield decides to hunt down this hit man as well as the girl. Bringing all his might with the police he storms the building where Leon and Matilda live with hundreds of SWAT and police members. Matilda yet again, is returning from shopping, a mirror scene of when her family is killed. As Matilda returns the initial framing is a tight long shot of the hallway where she enters. This gives the audience a restrictive view point of Matilda’s perspective, the colours being very bleak, and no colour is particularly vibrant, even the green of the walls is greyish, this style is apparent throughout the places Leon and Matilda go and shows how bleak and almost hopeless their situation is. Though the hallway is evenly lit as to allow the audience to establish that it is clear. This is...
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...statement? This essay completely agrees with the statement “a key idea in the novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones is the power of literature and storytelling to affect lives”. This is aptly shown through the escape it can provide to the villagers during a civil war and as a form of narrative therapy to recover from the trauma of the war as well. In the novel, storytelling affects almost all the characters in a positive way. “Mister Pip’’ chronicles the experiences of Matilda, a young resident of a small village in Bougainville, an island in Papua New Guinea, during Frames Ona’s rebel uprising against the copper mine company, Bougainville Copper Ltd. This results in the mine closing, and a civil war ensues between the rebels and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force in 1990. The central idea that literature and storytelling can positively affect lives is effectively shown, when the readers gain an understanding of how Mr Watt’s narration of “Great Expectations” (G.E.) has a huge impact on village children, especially Matilda, the protagonist. Mr. Watts declares that he wants the novel, by Charles Dickens, as a “place of light” for the children who are trapped in this terrible civil war to escape into. For the children in the civil war, all western aid for which they were dependent on was cut off. They had no medications, fuel, candles, “and soon the littlest kids came down with malaria, and there was nothing that could be done to help them”. Thus Mr Watts creates an entirely new world...
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