the secret garden

November 15, 2010

8^th Journal

- The Secret Garden -

Frances Hodgson Burnett

This story tells about a little girl named Mary Lennox. She was a thin girl. She was not a nice girl and always ill. She had to move from India back to England after her parents passed away. She lived with her uncle, Mr. Craven, in a big country house. She found a secret garden. She met Dicken – a twelve-year old boy, very kind, cheerful but poor – and also Colin Craven – Mary’s cousin who believed that he was going to be a hunchback and die. The secret garden changed their lives and the people around them.

This lovely story teaches the readers, especially young readers, how to be nice to other people, to appreciate our meals or everything we have, to make friends, playing outside, to think in positive way, and not to be easily giving up. As human, we need other people. We need each other. We need love.

I found some new words, such as:

• cross, which means always look angry or irritated.
• moor, which means an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather.
• robin, which means small brown bird found in England.

My comment:

I like this story because it delivers good moral messages, such as how to be nice to other people, to appreciate our meals or everything we have, to make friends, playing outside, to think in positive way, and not to be easily giving up. It is easy to be understood. So I will be very pleased to recommend it to others, especially the young readers.