The Secret Garden

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8/10 puan verdi

3 günde okudu

Ummm.. This is not putting on airs ok?:D

Mary Lennox, our protagonist, is a 10-year-old girl who lives in India. Daughter of a rich British couple, from a young age she was kept out of her parents' sight, for they did not wish to have a child. Mary is raised by an Ayah and the rest of the house servants, who spoil her, letting her do as she pleases so as not to upset her. Tragedy interrupts the course of Mary's life: A cholera epidemic breaks out and, in a matter of days, ends with most of the inhabitants of the house dying, including her parents. As she has no other relatives, she will be sent to live with her uncle, Mr. Craven, in England. Misselthwaite Manor is a big and mysterious country house, and the owner is seldom there. Years before, something terrible happened: Mrs. Craven had a fatal accident inside her favorite garden. Ever since then, Mr. Craven has detested the house and has a special aversion towards that garden in particular. That is why he decides to close its doors forever and bury the key. This garden and the mystery that surrounds it will be the one thing that interests Mary about the property. But, as she will soon discover, the garden is not the only secret Misselthwaite hides. The descriptions of the garden were something I liked very much the first time I read the story because they made it sound truly magical. I also recall being fond of Dickon's first appearance, when he brought Mary the seeds, and they started working together to make the garden beautiful again. The author is permanently associating gardening and outdoor activities with health and happiness. She also emphasizes it with Dickon's presence, as this character has a very special bond with nature.

The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · SeaWolf Press · 20197,7bin okunma

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Typhoon girl:D

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”

Reklam

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“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed…”

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“Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.“

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“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.” "Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”

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“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.“