2013年6月15日土曜日

Matilda -- Week 8

I finished reading the chapter which was written about Matilda's third revenge on his father.

One day, Matilda was scolded by her father because she adopted an impertinent attitude. But she thought she was right, so she decided to inflict severe punishment on him.

The next morning she got up early and went into the bathroom. Then she mixed the hair dye which her father uses every month with  the other one which was included terribly strong chemicals and her mother uses. So far so good. At breakfast time Matilda sat quietly at the dining-room table eating her cornflakes. Her brother sat opposite her with his back to the door devouring his breakfast. The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making the father's breakfast. After a while, the father had his hair set by using that hair dye and came noisily into the room. At first no one noticed change of his hair, but the mother looked at her husband and let out a scream. "Your hair! What've you done to your hair?" she said. Her brother also noticed the father's change, while the father couldn't understand the situation. Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. The father told his wife to give him a mirror and looked at his own face. He was very surprised because his fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver. The mother said, "My hair dye is terribly strong. I'm only meant to use one tablespoon of it in a whole basin of water and you've gone and put it all over your head neat! It'll probably take all your hair off in the end!" He asked his family what he should do and Matilda said, "I'd give it a good wash, Dad, if I were you, with soap and water. But you'll have to hurry." Then the father told his wife to make an appointment with her hairdresser and went to the bathroom quickly. Matilda was very satisfied with her revenge this time too.

Next chapter is Matilda's first school attendance, so I am looking forward to reading it!



2013年6月11日火曜日

Matilda -- Week 7

It was very enjoyable to read this chapter which was written about Matilda's second revenge on his father.

There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode. The experience had clearly chastened Matilda's father and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boating and bullying. Then suddenly he stuck again because perhaps he had a bad day at the workshop. When he arrived back from the workshop that evening his face was dark as thunder-cloud. He glared at Matilda who was reading a book and began to take it out on her. With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the page out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Most children in Matilda's place would have burst into floods of tears, but she didn't do that. She sat there very still and white and thoughtful.  Her wonderfully subtle mind was already at work devising yet another suitable punishment for the poisonous parent.

The following afternoon, Matilda went to meet Fred who was her friend and had a great talking parrot. After she borrowed the parrot which could say "Hello, hello, hello!" and "Rattle my bones!" from Fred and came home, she set about wedging the cage up the chimney which was in the dining-room. That evening while the mother, the father, the brother and Matilda were having supper as usual in the living-room, a voice came loud and clear from the dining-room across the hall. "Hello, hello, hello," it said. They were frightened to hear that voice. The mother told her husband to go and look, but he was petrified with terror. After a while, They decided to go and look together. When they arrived at the dining-room, the voice came once again. "Rattle my bones," it said. They all jumped, including Matilda. They stared round the room, but there was still no one there, so they except Matilda stood rooted to the spot in sheer terror. She was very satisfied with this revenge.

I am looking forward to reading her next revenge!



2013年6月10日月曜日

Matilda -- Week 6

The chapter which I finished reading this time was Matilda's first revenge on her father, so it was very interesting.

Matilda's father is a dealer in second-hand cars. One day, he talked to his children about one of the great secrets of his success. But Matilda interfered in his business in the middle of the conversation, so he flied into a rage and they started to quarrel. After a while, their quarrel was settled, but Matilda could feel the anger boiling up inside her. She also resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she wasn't. The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling, and as she lay in bed that night she made a decision. She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.

The following morning, just before her father went out for work, Matilda slipped into the cloakroom and got hold of the hat he wore each day to work. Matilda, holding the hat in one hand and a thin tube of Superglue in the other hand, proceeded to squeeze a line of glue very neatly all round the inside rim of the hat. Then she carefully hooked the hat back on to the peg with the walking-stick. Her father didn't notice anything when he put the hat on, but when he arrived at the workshop he couldn't get it off. Superglue is very powerful stuff, so powerful it will take your skin off if you pull too hard. He didn't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long. When he got home that evening he still couldn't get the hat off. Furthermore, it wasn't loose by the morning and it wouldn't slip off. So Matilda's mother took a pair of scissors and cut the thing off his head, bit by bit, first the top and then the brim. After a while, he finished up with a bald white ring round his head, like some sort of a monk. Matilda was deeply satisfied to look her father's head because she could get her own back on him.

I thought Matilda was a really genius. I'm very excited about reading her revenge story!


2013年6月9日日曜日

Matilda -- Week 5

Sorry... I neglected reading the book and contributing my blog for a while.
From now, I make an effort to do it continuously.

The main character is Matilda who is a five-year-old girl. She is sensitive and brilliant, but above all she is brilliant. Her mind is so nimble and she is so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half-witted of parents. But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood who are her parents show no interest at all in their children and were both so gormless and so busy in their own silly lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter. Matilda's older brother, Michael, is a perfectly normal boy, but the sister, Matilda, is an extra-ordinary girl. By the age of one and a half her speech was perfect and she knew as many words as most grown-ups. By the time she was three, she had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that lay around the house. At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering for books.

Nearly every weekday afternoon Matilda is left alone in the house because her brother goes to school and her father goes to work and her mother goes out playing bingo in a town eight miles away. Her mother loves bingo and plays it five afternoons a week. The afternoon of one day, Matilda set out all by herself to walk the public library in the village because her father refused to buy her a book. When she arrived, she introduced herself to the librarian, Mrs. Phelps, and asked if she might sit awhile and read a book. Mrs. Phelps was very surprised at the arrival of such a tiny girl unaccompanied by a parent, nevertheless told her she was very welcome. From then on, every afternoon, Matilda went to the library and devoured one book after another. Before long she was taught that public libraries like this allowed you to borrow books, so she took them home and she began to read a book there.

I look forward to reading the next chapter!






 
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