12/7/2023 0 Comments Secret garden story summarySo The Secret Garden is clearly trying to make a point: Lonely people (especially kids) without much to do become miserable, selfish bullies. What's made the difference? Lots of time outside and friends like Dickon. Over the course of the first 13 chapters, Mary Lennox has gone from a little monster to a nice girl whose biggest hobby is hanging out in the garden and taking care of plants. Climax Against All Odds, Mary Finds an Even Bigger Brat Than She Is As she digs and plants and works with Dickon to bring this neglected garden back to life, she learns to care about the world around her and becomes a much nicer kid as a result. And she finds this sense of purpose in the walled-up Secret Garden on the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor. ![]() But as Mary starts to make friends with the maid, Martha Sowerby, and her animal-charmer brother Dickon, Mary soon discovers that the world is full of a lot more natural beauty and interest than she ever guessed.īasically, all Mary ever needed to become a better person was something to care about that wasn't herself. You would expect this big transition to make her pretty miserable, and you would be right-for about a chapter. Over the course of Chapters 2 and 3, Mary travels from India (the place where she has lived for her entire life) to Yorkshire (a wild, rural county in northern England). Rising Action Mary Lennox Really Needs to Get Out More ![]() ![]() When they suddenly die of cholera, though, the stage is set for their deaths to give her a bunch of opportunities to improve her character and even her physical health. She gets everything she wants from her terrified, bullied nannies, but neither the discipline nor the love that she needs. She kicks and bites and screams when she doesn't get her way, so (of course) she always gets her way.īut we also find out very early on why Mary is a monster: Her parents (who are both English people living in colonial India) don't seem to care about her at all. Exposition You Can't Spell Tantrum Without Mary (Well, Except for the Y)Īt the start of The Secret Garden, we get the feeling that ten year-old Mary Lennox would cut us if we looked at her wrong.
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