Basic Elements
Characters: Mary, dad, mom, Ayah, Barney, Mrs. Medlock, Mr. Archibald Craven, Mr. Pitcher, Martha, Ben Weatherstaff, Robin, Colin
Setting: Mary’s home, Mr. Archibald Craven’s house
Plot: Mary is changed by Martha and she helps Colin to be happy and healthy too.
Perspective: third person view
Genre: children’s novel
The story The Secret Garden talks about a little girl called Mary. Her life with her parents is not good, they don't care about her, she only lives with her servant. But then one night her parents are dead and so Mary is sent to her uncle’s house. On her way she listen to a story of the secret garden Mrs. Medlock tells her. After she is there for a few weeks she changes, before she was a grumpy, and ill little girl but now she is happy and healthy. Then she meets a little boy, who is Colin. Colin is ill and he can’t walk, but that is not because his legs are bad it is because he is ill and that’s because he never goes outside, always laying on the bed. But then, Mary takes him to the secret garden and all the fresh air and sunlight make Colin feel good and healthy.
A good environment can change a person. At first Mary lives in India and her father mother never cares about her and her servant does everything for her, that makes Mary a spoiled, ill, grumpy, irritable little girl. Also when she doesn’t have to do anything by herself she loses her self-care ability. But then things start to change. When Mary lives in her uncle’s house the servant who takes care of her, which is Martha, teaches Mary to do things like wear her clothes by herself. And when Mary first comes she doesn't want to eat anything so Martha lets Mary go out into the huge garden to play and Mary starts to get hungry. All the things Matha does changes Mary and now Mary is a happy, healthy, and kind child. So, the environment people live in is really important.
Parenting is very important because parents are the first teacher and the person who can let children feel love. In this story, the two families’ parents are not doing good parenting. And that makes the two children have a lot of problems at the beginning. Mary, a little girl. She should be happy and healthy but not. Her parents never come to her room and her servant helps her to do everything she should do by herself, this makes her ill and has no ability to take care of herself. For Colin, his mother is dead and after his mother’s death his father, who is Mary’s uncle, is very sad and never goes to look at him anymore. His servants help him do everything and he is ill and can’t even get out of the bed. All of this is because the parents didn’t spend time on them and even didn’t try to teach them.
Two people that can understand each other’s sadness can make friends and help each other too. Mary and Colin are two children who can understand each other and they are the only one who can understand the other one. They have the almost same sad life when they are small so they are the only ones who can help each other. And Mary really did, when she feels better and then she meets Colin she finds out that Colin is similar to her and they become friends. Mary takes Colin out and lets him feel the fresh air, the wind, and the sunlight. Colin's legs were restored. Colin feels happy and healthy and that's all because Mary really understands and wants to help him. Friends can help each other and change each other. They are the family members that one chooses itself.
Always staying inside the house is not good for people’s bodies and feelings. At the start, Mary and Colin are always inside the room and never playing outside but then Mary meets Martha she changes her. She let her know that she needed to have the ability to take care of herself and needed to go outside and play. Mary did, she learned how to wear clothes and wash her face. And she goes outside in the garden to play. She feels happy and healthy. And then when she sees Colin she wants to help him just like Martha helps her. Mary tells Colin that he needs to go outside and he will feel better. Colin wants to get healthy so he did, and there is magic in the secret garden that makes Colin feel good. The magic is the air, the wind, the sunlight and the happiness it can take to him.
The book The Secret Garden talks about a little girl called Mary, she is ill, spoiled, grumpy. Mary meets a boy in her uncle’s house, who is also having a sad childhood just like her. After Mary's servant Martha changes Mary, Mary helps the little boy Colin to feel happy and healthy too. When Mary is first at that house, Mary can’t even do anything by herself but she learns and at last she did it. Mary and Colin are like this mostly because of their parents.Their parents all didn’t really care about them. But these two people can help understand each other and help each other. This is because they have almost the same sad childhood. At first Colin is ill and can’t even open a window but when he gets outside and plays in the secret garden he feels healthy because the wind, the fresh air, the sunlight makes him feel happy and gets better.
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