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Matilda Novel
CHAPTER 11: BRUCE BOGTROTTER AND THE CAKE
ORIGINAL ENTRY: PAGES 117-133
Matilda and Lavender talk about Miss Trunchbull was throwing the Amanda to the playground fence. Lavender said “Amanda will tell her parents.”but Matilda said “No! She didn’t. She cuts the hair herself.” They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day. During lunch an announcement was made that the whole school should go into the Assembly Hall and be seated as soon as the meal was over. When all of student of this school were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform.
-->Matilda and Lavender talk about Miss Trunchbull was throwing the Amanda to the playground fence. Lavender said “Amanda will tell her parents.”but Matilda said “No! She didn’t. She cuts the hair herself.” They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day. During lunch an announcement was made that the whole school should go into the Assembly Hall and be seated as soon as the meal was over. When all of student of this school were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform.
“Bruce Bogtrotter! Where is Bruce Bogtrotter? Come up here!!!” the Trunchbull barked suddenly. An eleven-year-old boy who was decidedly large and round stood up and waddled briskly forward. He climbed up on to the platform. “ Stand over there!!!!” the Trunchbull ordered.
The Trunchbull barked“A thief! A crook! A pirate! A brigand! A rustler!” àThe Trunchbull barked
“Who! me?” Bruce Bogtrotter said, looking genuinely puzzled. The Trunchbull shouted, “Yesterday morning, during break, you sneaked like a serpent into the kitchen and stole a slice of my private chocolate cake from my tea-tray! That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook! It was my morning snack! And as for the cake, It was my own private stock! That was not boy’s cake! You don’t think for one minute I’m going to eat the filth I give to you? That cake was made from real butter and real cream! And he, that robber-bandit, that safe-cracker, that highwayman standing over there with his socks around his ankles stole it and ate it!” “I didn’t do.” Bruce exclaimed. “Don’t lie to me! Bruce!!!”barked the Trunchbull. ”you like my special chocolate cake, don’t you, Bruce Bogtrotter? It’s so expensive and delicious, isn’t it?” The Trunchbull asked to Bruce Bogtrotter. He said, ”Very good.” Then the Headmistress called cook and ordered to give the enormous chocolate cake to the Bruce. And She ordered to eat a cake to the Bruce. So Bruce ate a cake very fast. When Bruce was finished the cake the Trunchbull lunged forward and grabbed the large empty china platter on which the cake had rested. She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter’s head and pieces flew all over the platform.
à“Who! me?” Bruce Bogtrotter said, looking genuinely puzzled. The Trunchbull shouted, “Yesterday morning, during break, you sneaked like a serpent into the kitchen and stole a slice of my private chocolate cake from my tea-tray! That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook! It was my morning snack! And as for the cake, It was my own private stock! That was not boy’s cake! You don’t think for one minute I’m going to eat the filth I give to you? That cake was made from real butter and real cream! And he, that robber-bandit, that safe-cracker, that highwayman standing over there with his socks around his ankles stole it and ate it!” “I didn’t do.” Bruce exclaimed. “Don’t lie to me! Bruce!!!”barked the Trunchbull. ”you like my special chocolate cake, don’t you, Bruce Bogtrotter? It’s so expensive and delicious, isn’t it?” The Trunchbull asked to Bruce Bogtrotter. He said, ”Very good.” Then the Headmistress called cook and ordered to give the enormous chocolate cake to the Bruce. And She ordered to eat a cake to the Bruce. So Bruce ate a cake very fast. When Bruce was finished the cake the Trunchbull lunged forward and grabbed the large empty china platter on which the cake had rested. She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter’s head and pieces flew all over the platform.
FINAL ENTRY WITH CORRECTIONS;
Matida has learned the Trunchbull’s great secret. She thought no matter what happens no parents would believe their kids story on how the Headmistress in their school punish them for the story would sound too ridiculous to be believed.
The very next day, they got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be. During lunch an announcement was made that all the students in school should go into the Assembly Hall and be seated as soon as meal was over.
When all the students were gathered, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform and was carrying a riding-crop in her right hand. She stood up on the centre stage glaring at the upturned faces before her. She then called the name Bruce Bogtrotter.
An eleven-year-old boy shot up among the seated children. He was a round and large boy who waddled briskly forward to the platform when the Headmistress told him to come up on to the platform.
The Headmistress told the boy to remain standing while the latter was watching the Trunchbull with an exceedingly wary eye and fearful apprehension.
‘’ This Clot’’ The Headmistress said pointing her riding crop at him. ‘’ Is a thief, a crook, a pirate, a rustler!’’
Bruce was genuinely puzzled upon hearing it. The Trunchbull continued saying that Bruce sneaked into the kitchen yesterday and stole a slice of her private cake from a tea-tray prepared by the cook.
The Headmistress told the boy that he should send his compliments to the cook for liking the cake she made then The Trunchbull called the cook who looks shrivelled as though all the juices had been dried out of her body. The Headmistress boomed at Bruce to tell the cook how he liked her chocolate cake by saying ‘’ very good’’ and then she asked the cook if she still has more of that cake.
The cook disappeared at once and when she came back she was staggering an enormous round choco cake on a china platter. She puts it on a small table there on the center stage with a chair behind it.
The Trunchbull demanded Bruce to sit down on the chair and eat the extra large cake which she said she ordered for him to bake from the cook. The boy was hesitant to even try the huge cake thinking it could be poisonous or there might be something in it knowing how tricky the Trunchbull is.
But then the Headmistress forced him to take a bite of it, at first he finished a thin slice of cake and told her that he doesn’t want more of it.
The Trunchbull barked telling him to eat all the cake and that he can’t leave the platform if he did not or rather noone in the hall will leave until Bruce has eaten the entire cake.
The boy looked at the Trunchbull then he looked down at the enormous cake while the Headmistress kept on yelling at him to eat it all. The boy cut another slice and began to eat then he cut a third slice and started to eat it again. The Trunchubull warned him not to stop or else he‘ll be put in the Chokey.
In a peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride and is gathering much self confidence as he went along. Bruce was three quarters of the way through and still going strong. He had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him. He kept pushing the stuff into his mouth with perseverance as the very last mouthful disappeared, a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience.
The Trunchbull stood there motionless with her horsy face glittering with fury, suddenly the headmistress lunged forward and grabbed the large empty china platter and raised it high on the top of the boy’s head.
The pieces flew all over the platform and Bruce was by now full of cake looks like a sackful wet cement but he simply shook his head a few times then went on grinning which makes the Trunchbull screamed and walked out from the platform.
Hey Roni,
You’re doing pretty well with your chapter 11 summary. Although there are some important details that you forgot to put like how Bruce had eaten the cake and how does the cook look like as well as the reaction of the kids in the assembly hall and of course the Trunchbull’s reaction when she was defeated. Also make a proper spacing of each paragraph in your summary.
Keep it up!
Teacher Nina
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