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The Secret Garden
Plot
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In
each
case,
the
heroine
of
your
book
finds
herself
in
unfamiliar
surroundings.
Describe the circumstances in which she
arrived there.
Mary i
s sent
to her uncle’s
manor with many gardens.
The Misselthwaite Manor is so
large
that there is two miles of avenue to pass through
a long dark vault. Passing through
the
vault, there is an immensely long but low-built
house on a clear space. The room where
Mary lives is curious and gloomy. The
walls are covered with tapestry with a forest
scene
embroidered on it. Out of a deep
window she can see a great climbing stretch of
land which
seems to have no trees on it
and to look rather like an endless, dull sea.
There are many
gardens in the
Misselthwaite Manor. But Mary cannot help thinking
about the Garden which
no one has been
into for ten years. In order to find the Garden,
she goes to many different
gardens. The
first garden which she goes to is a great garden
with wide lawns, with tree,
with an old
gray fountain; the second garden is a kitchen
garden where the vegetable and
fruit
growing……until she f
inds a garden whose
door cannot open, she thinks she finds the
Secret Garden. The Garden is still and
almost nothing on it. All the ground is covered
with
grass of a wintry brown and out of
it grew clumps of bushes which Mary thinks are
surely
rosebushes if they were alive.
Mary decides to change the lifeless Garden with
her efforts.
Finally, she succeeds and
also changes herself and other people.
?
Choose your three favorite
chapters and write a summary of them.
Which chapter is impressed me firstly
is in the chapter of There Is No one Left (Chapter
1). Because of the cholera, her parents
and servants are died and the few native servants
who
have
not
died
also
have
left
the
house
as
quickly
as
they
can.
None
of
them
even
remembers
that
there
is
a
Mary
left.
When
I
see
Mary
is
left
lonely,
I
feel
so
sad
and
sorrowful.
Poor
little
kid! Even
if
Mary
is
a
tyrannical,
selfish
and
bad-
tempered
girl,
she
cannot have had this tragic result. I
admit she is queer and odd but this is mostly due
to her
parents and the circumstance
where she has lived. If her parents love and care
about her so
much and always accompany
her in her childhood, maybe she will have a happy
childhood
and healthy personality. In a
word, she just is a lonely and love-short girl.
Second chapter impressed me is
the chapter of “Might I Have a bit of
Earth?”
(Chapter
10).Why I
like this chapter because I see the huge change of
Mary in this chapter. What is
the
impression that Mary gives me most is a yellow-
face, thin-body and selfish, tyrannical
and
bad-tempered
girl.
When
his
uncle,
Mr.
Craven
asks
her
what
she
wanted,
Mary’
s
answer
is
beyond
my
expectence.
She
just
wants
a
bit
of
earth,
not
toys,
dolls
or
other
things.
This
is
the
answer
which
Mary
who
I
know
will
never
give.
I
feel
Mary
is
unconsciously changing.
What makes her change? The Secret Garden does, or
in another
word, the nature does. All
these changes are owing to the “magic” of
the Secret Garden, or
of the
nature. What
’s more, Mary’s uncle, Mr.
Craven, is first to appear on the
scene
. I have
a good
impression on him: an ugly appearance but a kind
heart.
Third
Second
chapter
impressed
me
is
the
chapter
of
“I
Shall
Live
Forever
----
and
Ever----and
Ever
！
”
(Chapter
18). Collin looks forward to go the Secret Garden
and in this
chapter, his dream comes
true. When Mary brings Collin outside, he sees the
arch of it looks
very
high
and
the
small
snowy
clouds
seem
like
white
birds
floating
on
outspread
wings
below its crystal blueness. The wind
sweeps in soft big breaths down from the moor and
is
strange with a wild clear scented
sweetness. How beautiful and charming the
Garden is.
Collin opens his
eyes wild and is absorbed by the beautiful
scenery, even me ----- I cannot
help
imaging
the “magic”
G
arden. The “magic”
Garden gives Collin energy and hopes
and
makes him crying
out, “I
shall get well! I shall get well! And I shall live
for
ever and ever and
ever”.
From this, I s
ee a boy who is healthy,
happy and optimistic and totally different from
what he is before.
Characters
?
Describe
the
heroine
of
your
book.
What
is
she
like
in
terms
of
personality/appearance? Does she change
in the course of the story, and if so, how?
Give two examples of her actions that
reveal her character.
Mary is the
heroine of the book. She is born in a wealthy
family, but her parents do
n’t
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