[FUN WITH READING 2018-20201A] Matilda

20201伍珮齊 (WU, PEI-CHI)

[BOOK PROFILE]

TITLE OF THE BOOK: Matilda

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Roald Dahl

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1988

ISBN:978-0-141-34990-9

Matilda

Matilda’s father was a clunning car dealer. He fiddled the number on the speedometer back to cheat his customers. Her parents didn’t like Matilda, so when her teacher told them Matilda was an extraordinary genius, they didn’t care at all. With her rage and sadness, Matilda decided to take revenge on her parents by mischief. Later, when it was her time for school, her headmistress was a sinewy woman. Miss Trunchbull hated the kids so much that she always threw and wobbled the pupil she didn’t like. Everyone in school were scared of her including the teacher. On one occasion, Miss Honey went home with Matilda, and they had a long talk, Miss Honey told Matilda her childhood, and how Miss Trunchbull had treated her. In the end, Matilda used her magic to help her teacher and live together.

Matilda practiced a lot at home in order to help her teacher, so when Miss Trunchbull got into her classroom, she used her magic to make the chalk write on the blackboard by itself. The thing that the chalk wrote about was asking Miss Trunchbull to give Miss Honey back her house. The tone was really like Miss Honey’s father who had been dead. Miss Trunchbull was so frightened that she ran away. At the same time, Matilda’s parents had to leave for Spain to escape from the police. Matilda didn’t want to go with her parents, so Miss Honey asked her parents whether she could take care of Matilda. Because her parents didn’t care about her, they agreed. Then, Matilda could live with her teacher forever.

I do really love this story and the author, I have already read four books of the author. The plot of the story is very dramatic and it was hard to predict. The author gave every character a distinct image. Sometimes the author used puns in the story, and they were very hard for me to understand. And the way how the author described a character was very interesting. For example, the author wanted to describe that the cook was very old. He wrote that she looked as though her mouth was full of lemon juice. After reading the book, I really envied Matilda’s ability. If I have an ability just like her, I would read a lot and use my ability to help many people in the world. Though it is impossible, I will still try my best to learn, and use what I learn to contribute.