Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Secret Garden
I'd owned this book for several years before actually fetching it from my bookshelf and opening it. My reason for doing so was because I listened to some of the music from the musical of the same name and was interested. This book is about a young orphan girl named Mary who has to move to her Uncle Archibald's house in England from her home in India where she'd been spoiled all her life. Never knowing what it was like to truly live, she soon discovers things that most people would have known early on in life, like what it felt like to be hungry or how to get her clothes on. She also learns about a garden her uncle closed off after the untimely death of his wife. She discovers the key after a robin shows where it is to her and opens up the garden, choosing to keep it secret. Eventually she shows it to Dickon, a maid in the house's brother, her cousin, Colin, the gardener, Ben Weatherstaff, and finally to her Uncle Archibald. As she works slowly to bring the garden to it's former glory, she, along with the garden, learns how to live and improves in looks as a result. This is a classic novel and I suggest anyone of all ages to read it, although there's some heavy Yorkshire dialogue in it that some children might not understand, as well as themes of death and mourning.
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