Matilda

Matilda is a thirteen year old girl who portrays many different traits in this book. Matilda has to deal with multiple things circling around in her life. As a thirteen year old, this can be very hard. For example, her father does not live with her and she always thinks about him. Matilda has to deal with the idea of a war going on. When you are this young and at any age, war is a scary thing. Matilda does a great job of keeping it together in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, which reveals a lot about…

How would you respond when faced with adversity, would you run from it or face it? In the book Fever 1793 Matilda Cook a fourteen year old girl was faced with many problems. For instance, her mother got ill with yellow fever and she sent her away with her grandfather out of Philadelphia. Her mother had a notion that the fever was contagious, therefore she sent them off to go to the countryside. They had gotten on a wagon and the went off. She fell asleep in the searing heat. Mattie woke…

“Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda” was a part of collected document from Medieval England 1500-1000: A Reader edited by Emilie Amt. Her document was edited from Edmer’s History of Recent Event in England: Historia Novorum in Anglia. This book was published by Geoffrey Bonsanquet, who translated Eadmer’s book from Latin to English. This text describes Queen Edith-Matilda’s trial. It is our job as a historian to analysis the document to understand conception of history. Too understand and…

journalist and author. Most of his ballads focused on the Australian way of life in the outback. He has produced many well-known ballads such as “The Man from Snowy River “and “Clancy of the Overflow” also his infamous ballad “Waltzing Matilda”. “Waltzing Matilda” was originally created in 1895 and the title is Australian slang for ‘going walkabout with your swag’. The ballad narrates the story of a lonely, wondering worker or swagman preparing a drink of billy tea at a bush camp in outback…

needed in their lives. In Matilda, the conflict of family relationships is demonstrated by Miss Honey and Matilda Wormwood struggling to bond with their families, as neither are happy around them. First, Miss Jennifer Honey struggles to get along with her Aunt Agatha Trunchbull. In an interview with Dahl, he stated, ¨I find that the…

Growing up as a 90s baby, my two favorite movies were “Matilda” and “High School High.” They both have great attributes which depict a teacher’s behavior, that there is teacher who really care, and are willing to go above and beyond to help their student in reaching the highest level of success. It also shows that not all teacher is willing to be role models and just doing it for a steady pay check. First let me elaborate on Matilda being that this was kids from the elementary school, was an…

Before all of the customers arrive Eliza has to make all of the food. She would sometimes make her specialty, gingerbread, and then the room would smell like nutmeg and cinnamon. Matilda would make sure that the garden was good. She watered the plants and picked the ones that were ready to be picked. Then during the day Matilda would serve the guests. Then once they were done with their dishes she would take them back to the kitchen. Eliza would make sure that there were no messes and also that…

‘Where there are men fighting, there are always nurses.” This was said by my good friend, Sister Florence Syer- God rest her soul. Anyway, hello, my name is Matilda Bullwinkel, and I used to be a nurse back in the late 1900s, World War Two. This war began on the 1st of September 1939 and ended in 1945- the same war that changed my life forever. I was 26 years old when all the Australian women (including me) volunteered and joined the only women’s service that existed at that time, the…

only ever negatively effects Matilda. She either has to deal with the negative ramifications of migration or experiences horrors and events first hand that leads to her own negative migration. The first time that Matilda experiences the negative ramifications of migration is when she reflects upon her father’s moving to Australia and his transformation into a “white” man. This occurs when Mr. Watts and the children begin to save Great Expectations from extinction and Matilda connects with…

disease, starvation, robbery, and assault. Matilda had her share of dramatic experiences in her time, but in my opinion,she had been hit from all sides of life’s trenches all in one day. The day her grandfather died. That day included robbery, assault, starvation, and risk of disease. That day, they barely had any food, they were robbed, Matilda was abused, and her grandfather was sick and eventually died from the fever. On this very morning, Matilda was staying strong and taking care of…