MATLIDA NOVEL
CHAPTER 16: Miss Honey’s Cottage
ORIGINAL ENTRY: 177-192
Matilda and Miss Honey passed the many stores and buildings such as the green grocery shop. They went and went Matilda was very happy and very excited. Matilda could not calm down and Miss Honey said to calm down. Then they arrived to a place like place that farmers live. Matilda was surprised that her teacher lived there. Then they went in and the teacher asked Matilda to get water from the well. She brought water and Miss Honey made the tea and put margarine on two loafs of bread. Matilda looked around the cottage and it was like a cell of prisoners. The teacher said to sit down and eat the bread and drink the tea. Matilda thought that if she was at home she would eat sponge cakes and bread with jam or butter. She had a bit of the bread with margarine; it was not really bad. Then they started talking about the wonderful and fascinating power that Matilda owned.
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FINAL ENTRY WITH CORRECTIONS;
Since Miss Honey invited Matilda to her home the little girl was more than willing to go to.
While they were walking on the way to the cottage of Miss Honey, Matilda was doing wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds.
The young child told her teacher that she felt that she can move almost anything in the world and that all she needed was to take a moment to get her eyes strong while staring a certain thing hard enough.
Miss Honey told Matilda that she better calm down and that they must tread carefully for they might be playing with mysterious forces. Matilda did not understand what her teacher is trying to say so Miss Honey went further by saying that Matilda’s power is unexplainable and a phenomenon.
Finally, they came to a small green gate half-burried in the hedge and almost hidden by over hanging hazel branches. Matilda saw a narrow dirt-path leading to a tiny red-brick cottage. It was so small that it looked more like a doll’s house. The bricks were old and crumbly and very pale red. It had grey slate roof and one small chimney. There were windows at the front which were like that of the tabloid sheets.
An enormous oak tree stood overshadowing the cottage and its massive spreading enfolded the tiny building and more of hiding it from the rest of the world.
Matilda was a bit frightened of the place for it seemed too remote and totally away from the earth. It was like an illustration in that Hansel and Gretel and Red Riding Hood’s grandmother’s as well as The Seven Dwarfs and the Three Bears and the rest of Grimm or Hans Andersen stories.
The front door was covered with flaky green paint and there was no keyhole. Miss Honey lifted the latch and pushed open the door and went in. Matilda went after her and she found herself in what seemed to be a dark narrow tunnel.
There weren’t many things to see in Miss Honey’s home although there was a Primus stove. Miss Honey told Matilda to get some water while she lit the Primus stove. The little girl was bemused for she has to go to the well to fetch a bucket of water.
After getting a bucket of water Matilda carried it back in the house. Then she asked Miss Honey if she considered herself poor. The teacher replied saying that she is poor. While she’s boiling water in the saucepan she took a teapot and put some tea leaves into it. She then cut two slices of a half small loaf of bread in two thin slices then from a container she took margarine and spread it on the bread.
Matilda thought that her teacher must be really poor for she only has margarine for a spread.
Miss Honey told Matilda to have her snack in the sitting-room. Matilda thinks that the room was more of a prison cell. It is small and bare. There were only small and square upturned boxes and that’s where they sat down.
Matilda was appalled. She could not believe that her neat and trimly-dressed school teacher lives that way. She thinks there was something strange going on.
Hey Roni!
Your summary is way too short. You did not put the right events of this certain chapter properly. You simply copied it from your book. Please try to do it better next time alright?
Teacher Nina