The Secret Garden

“You brought us back to life. You did something I thought no one could do. Don’t be afraid. I won’t shut it up again,” as Lord Craven expressed to Mary in the movie The Secret Garden. In this movie, Mary’s parents recently had died from an earthquake, and considering this, she moved from India, to Misselthwaite Manor in England. In truth, Mary was not extremely dejected by the death of her parents. Never taking time to know Mary, they were continually showing her that they didn’t care about her. In addition to neglecting her socially, they also emotionally neglected her. For this reason, when she moved to the Manor, Mary was then apprehensive to show people her sadness because she was afraid they would neglect her, as her parents did. Consequently,…

Characters in novels are very much like real people. They experience real-life situations that help them grow and develop which become visible to readers through various literature characteristics. Themes, motifs and symbolism all show readers how certain characters find their “stronger sense of self”, playing hand and hand with character development throughout the storyline. The development and growing of characters is present and similar in all of the four novels; Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The…

I remember growing up watching The Secret Garden (1993) over and over again falling in love with the magic that seemed to be there. Taking two miserably selfish children and seeing them transform into laughing loving children and a father finally coming home to his son touched my soul again and again. It would leave me in tears each time and still does today. This adaptation follows closely to the original story The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It only changed in a couple ways that…

The narrative that I have chosen to write about is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I have chosen this book because of the metamorphosis of the main character Mary. She goes from an oppressive and sour girl to a caring and understanding young girl with empathy. This book is about a young girl named Mary who is a privileged, unloved and selfish. The book begins with her living in India with her wealthy parents who hardly acknowledge her existence. She has servants who do everything…

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” Genre: Children’s Novel / Classic Rating: ✰✰✰✰✰ Started: 09.08.2015 Finished: 10.08.2015 There’s a mug in my room, full with little pink reading challenges. My hand randomly picked one for this month and it was ‘read a classic’.…

““Was he different from others?” “Only on the inside. When you looked down his throat you could see the whole universe.”” This was said by Colin and Mary in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This quote relates to all of the characters because there is more to them than what you see. They all had their own struggles and ways of happiness that they had to find. They found that by unlocking their hearts and a huge piece of that is the garden. It is what pulled them all together. In The…

It’s sort of like playing detective, and I’ve loved mysteries for as long as I can remember: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew were all veritable staples of the literary canon that defined my childhood. I think that, were I accepted into the honors program, I might actually enjoy looking at a couple of other texts I loved as a child: C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy, for example, and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I…

To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in July of 1960, this novel tells the story of six-year-old Jean Lous Finch, commonly known as Scout, and her adventures with her brother Jem, and the neighbor kid Dill. In the small fictional town of Maycomb Alabama. Scout talks about dodging the strange shut in named Boo Radley, refusing to act like a lady, and all the life lessons and great advice from her father who is a lawyer, Atticus Finch. Spanning from the years 1933 to 1935 and this book…

Mary’s neglected most of the time when she isn’t with her friends Martha and Dickson. She heard a cry coming from down the stairs. She looks for where the noise came from until she finds an abounded room. The room has ivy vines all around the room, with a tree trunk in the middle. The room is similar to her mother’s room and she is asking why there is a room like this in her uncle’s house? She asks questions to the gardener who tells her that it’s a secret garden belonging to her late aunt. He…

– as if he were escaping this spring.” that was a quote from the book Secret Garden. In this film, a young girl named Mary moves to her uncle's house in England, after her parents die in an earth quake. At her new home, she uncovers many unknown secrets of her family. The theme in Frances Hodgson’s Secret Garden is, in order to receive love, you must open your heart. The theme applies to characters, Mary, Lord Craven, Collin, and Medlock. To begin with, the character Mary is most affected by…