Mohamad Hazeeq novel #2
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Novel #2
Name:Mohamad Hazeeq b Mohamad Zaini
Class: 2 Al-Biruni
College number: 13068
Title: Matilda’ by Roald Dahl
Class: 2 Al-Biruni
College number: 13068
Title: Matilda’ by Roald Dahl
Protagonist Matilda is a young girl of unusual
precocity, but often ill-treated by her father or neglected by her mother. In
retaliation, she pulls pranks such as gluing her father's hat to his head,
hiding a friend's parrot in the chimney to simulate a burglar or ghost, and
secretly bleaching her father's hair.
At school, Matilda befriends her teacher, Miss
Jennifer Honey, who, astonished by Matilda's intellectual abilities, tries to
move her into a higher class, but is refused by headmistress Miss Agatha
Trunchbull. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood about
Matilda's supreme intelligence, but makes no impression. Matilda quickly
develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey. When Matilda's friend
Lavender plays a practical joke on Miss Trunchbull by placing a newt in her jug
of water, Matilda uses an unexpected power of telekinesis to tip the glass of
water containing the newt onto Miss Trunchbull. Having learnt of this feat,
Miss Honey invites Matilda to tea at her tiny cottage in the forest, where Miss
Honey reveals that she was raised in part by a hostile aunt, identified as Miss
Trunchbull, who appears (among other misdeeds) to withhold her niece's
inheritance. In preparation to avenge the latter, Matilda develops her
telekinetic gift through practice at home. Later, during a lesson that Miss
Trunchbull is teaching, Matilda telekinetically raises a piece of chalk against
the blackboard and, in the resulting writings, poses as the spirit of Miss
Honey's late father, demanding that Miss Trunchbull concede Miss Honey's house
and wages and leave the region forever. This is soon accomplished, and with the
approval of the school's capable and good-natured new Headteacher, Mr Trilby,
Matilda herself advances to the highest level of schooling. Rather to her
relief, she is no longer capable of telekinesis; this explained by Miss Honey
as the result of using her mind in a more-challenging curriculum.
Matilda continues to visit Miss Honey at her
house regularly, but one day she finds her parents hastily packing to escape
from the police who have incriminated her father for selling stolen
automobiles. Matilda asks permission to live with Miss Honey, to which her
parents rather uninterestedly agree, and so both she and Miss Honey find their
happy ending.
Vocabulary obtained from the novels :
Ø Whisked = take or move (someone or something) somewhere suddenly and
quickly.
Ø Protagonist = meaning
"one who plays the first part, chief actor") is the main character
Ø Incriminated = make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or
wrongdoing.
Ø Telekinesis = User can influence/manipulate/move matter with their
mind.
