Matilda

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Book Review


I have read ”Matilda” and the author is Roald Dahl. “Matilda” is about a five-year-old girl, with name Matilda, who has two parents that doesn’t care for her and even tough she’s an unusually clever for her age they think that she’s really stupid but in fact it’s they who are stupid. She can the whole multiplication table, read very difficult books and spell awfully long and complicated words. She’s also very quick-witted and very often argues with people in her surroundings.
Her parents often blame on her if anything goes wrong and they never listened to her so to avenged on them she did nasty mischief like to put super-glue in her dads hat.
They hate books and they just watch the TV and Matilda is also forced to do it, even if what she wants to do is to read. So when everybody has gone for the day, Matilda goes to the library and read books. She read every single book at the library.

When she starts the school her teacher, called Miss Honey, realize that Matilda has learned all things by her own, not by her parents. She perceives that Matilda is a wonder child.
Miss Honey is her young and sweet teacher. She’s very nice to all the kids in the class but she gets a special relationship to Matilda trough some things I going to tell about.
One day the terrible headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, came to the class to have a lesson with them. Everybody fears Miss Trunchbull. She hates kids and is a very big and strong woman that can do all what she wants to with the children in school, and she also does it. She lifts the kids in their hair and ears and shake them off if they answer wrong on her questions. In the end of the lesson Miss Trunchbull gets a little lizard in her glass of water that someone had layed down in it and she accuse Matilda so Matilda gets very angry and then it happens something. Matilda stares at Miss Trunchbull’s glass of water and whispered for her own, “Tip it over!” And then the glass really tipped over on Miss Trunchbull.
After the lesson Matilda talks about the happening with Miss Honey and they went home to Miss Honey to talk more about it, but in there Matilda could see that she’s really poor so she starts to question that, so Miss Honey tells Matilda that her mum died when she just was about two years old, and then her aunt started to take care of her because her dad worked too much. Her aunt treats her just more badly for each day. When Jenny(Miss Honey) just were about five-years-old her aunt make her bath herself all alone and when she came in again she looked if Jenny was clean enough and if she wasn’t, her aunt push her head under the water and hold it there. With the time it gets Jenny who gets all the homework like cooking, cleaning and so on and after a while her dad died very suddenly and her dad’s will also disappeared so the aunt took the house.
On the quiet Jenny studied to be a teacher and when she one day is out to take a walk she comes to a farm and find a little, pretty rotten house and ask the farmer if she can rent it and she can. So she maked her free from her aunt and moved in to the cottage.
In the end of Miss Honey’s little “story” about herself, she tells that her aunt was Miss Trunchbull and Matilda gets very upset because she’s really care about Miss Honey and she knows how Miss Trunchbull behaviour to children.
When Matilda came home it wasn’t anybody there so she started to practise at her magic. She began to do that every day and learn how to pick up a thing and move it all around in the air. Then one lesson, Miss Trunchbull came to their class to have a lesson with them again and see if they had learn anything, and then Matilda did something that was going to change, especially Miss Honeys life, but also all the children and the other teachers in the school…
I think it’s very little details and descriptions about the environment in “Matilda”. Most of the time Matilda is at school. The school is a middle class school and Matilda’s family I see like a middle class family, even if her dad makes his money on a illegal way, he’s earn pretty good. They live near the city in a residential district.
Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey, lives in a cottage on a farm. It shows different social classes and how people can live. Miss Honey lives very sparingly, she even eat badly because she haven’t so well with money. She had very few furniture and she goes for water outside. It’s of course partially because of her problems at home with her aunt, but it shows how people can live.
My own opinion: I think the book was good. I like it because Roald has done it little bit childlike. It’s a lively imagination in the book and the story is little bit strange but funny but I like that because I think it’s a little bit deeper behind the childish story. If you really think of what you read and look a little bit deeper in the book, you see it’s little bit more than just magical things and a terrific to headmistress. I think it’s also abo...