Book Summary - Matilda

 

Hey guys, today we are going a bit off-topic and are writing about the summary of one of my favorite books - ‘matilda’. It is written by the famous children’s author Roald Dahl. he is renowned for many other stories like ‘the BFG’, ‘The Twits’, and ‘Charlie And The Chocolate factory’.

So let’s start the story. The story revolves around a young girl named matilda wormwood who is extraordinary. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood are clumsy and idiotic people. She also had an elder brother named Micheal.

Matilda was the ignored child of the family. Her family failed to notice that she was brilliant. Her mind to learn everything but her family didn’t care as they were busy in ‘their own silly life’.

Matilda had mastered the art of speech by the age of 1 and a half but her family did nothing but call her a chatterbox. When Matilda askes her dad for a book, he refuses her. So, from the next day onwards, she walks herself to the library. There she meets u with Mrs. Philip who guides her with the book and Matilda becomes a daily visitor there. Soon matilda finishes all the children’s books. Mrs. Phelps introduces her to the books for elders. 

Mrs. Philip, concerned for her safety, tells her that they were allowed to take the books home and read them. From then Matilda only visited the library once every week. Se would bring books to her room and would travel the entire world with authors and their words.

After some bad experiences with her parents, she pranks her dad twice and both of them are carried out succesefully. Matilda starts school late for a girl her age and is placed in the lowest form in Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, is a wonderful, sweet woman, and she immediately recognizes Matilda's intelligence and seeks to move her into the highest form. Unfortunately, though, Crunchem Hall is run by a terrible woman named Miss Trunchbull. She is massive and muscular, having been a former Olympic athlete for Britain. She loathes children and treats the students horribly, keeping them in line with terrible punishments such as the "Chokey," a thin closet with walls made of nails where students have to stand straight up for hours when they misbehave.

Miss Trunchbull will not move Matilda to the highest form, so Miss Honey keeps her in her class, giving her advanced books to study while the rest of the class learns basic lessons. Matilda quickly befriends the other students in school and learns about the ways they resist Miss Trunchbull's terror. The peak of Miss Trunchbull's horrible antics is reached when she calls a school-wide assembly and makes a boy named Bruce Bogtrotter eat an entire giant chocolate cake on his own in front of everyone as punishment for stealing a slice of hers. 

Miss Trunchbull comes into Miss Honey's class for one period each Thursday to take over, and she terrorizes the students with difficult math and spelling questions and punishes them with physical abuse when they cannot answer. Matilda's friend Lavender, seeking to get revenge on Miss Trunchbull, sticks a large newt in her drinking glass, sending Miss Trunchbull into a frenzy. Miss Trunchbull blames Matilda for placing the newt there, even though she did not do it, and Matilda gets so angry that a peculiar sensation of power comes over her and she manages to knock the water glass over with her mind, pouring the newt onto Miss Trunchbull's bosom.

Matilda is awed and frightened by her newfound power, and when she demonstrates it for Miss Honey, the teacher invites her back to her cottage to talk. Matilda is mystified when she sees Miss Honey's cottage, a tiny, sparse place hardly fit for living. Miss Honey reveals her life story to Matilda: her parents died when she was young, leaving her in the care of her cruel aunt, who has bullied her and forced her to work ever since. This terrible aunt takes nearly every cent of Miss Honey's salary, so she cannot afford to live anywhere but this tiny shack. At last, Miss Honey reveals who this aunt is: Miss Trunchbull.

Matilda comes up with a plan to get back at Miss Trunchbull and help Miss Honey. She hones her power until she can make objects move in the air at her will, and then the following week when Miss Trunchbull comes in to teach their class, she has the chalk move on its own and write an ominous message to Miss Trunchbull. Miss Trunchbull believes that the message has come from Magnus, Miss Honey's deceased father. Panicked, she disappears, moving out of his house and leaving Crunchem Hall.

When Magnus's will mysteriously appear, it is revealed that his house belonged to Miss Honey all along, as do his life savings. She moves in immediately, and Matilda is a frequent visitor. Under the new headteacher, Matilda is moved up to the highest form, where she finds that because her mind is challenged with hard work, she has lost her extraordinary powers. She discusses this with Miss Honey but decides she does not mind that it is gone.

When she returns home that day she sees her parents and brother in a frenzy, packing up to move to Spain because her father has finally been caught for being involved with criminals who sell stolen cars. Miss Honey offers to adopt Matilda so she can stay and live with her, and Matilda's parents agree to the plan.

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