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!