For quite a while, my favorite book during childhood was Matilda. Matilda is a story by Roald Dahl (an author that I loved in childhood!) about a little girl named Matilda. Her parents are absolute scum who treat her horribly, and she finds a sort of escape in her teacher at school, and they develop a friendship. Matilda goes through many adventures, including those with her parents and her horrible headmistress Ms. Trunchbull. At some point, Matilda discovers she has a magical power to move things with her mind, and she works on developing this supernatural talent.
I think one of the reasons this book was a favorite was because of the writing style. As mentioned previously, I loved all the Roald Dahl books that I read in childhood. All of his books were funny and interesting. I loved the fact that this book combined something so real wi(troubles at school and at home) with things that are so ridiculous and comical. I loved the ending of the book- Matilda has such a hard life for a young girl, and at the end of the book she ends up being able to go live with the teacher that she loves, and they both live happily ever after.
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Roald Dahl is amazing. The wtched scared me so bad hen I was little. Matilda is one of my favorite stories ever! I remember the old days reading these books in elementary.
ReplyDeleteI love Matilda. I also watched the movie they made out of it and really liked it...it's sooooo funny. The story is great just like you said because it combines real things with more fantasy. Great book!
ReplyDeleteDid you ever read "The Twits"? That was my favorite one because I liked the pictures that showed the wife as a nice woman at first and then she got more progressively mean and ugly.
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