Matilda

Do you like stories where the kind wins and the bad loses? If so, you should read “Matilda”, by Roald Dahl.

Matilda is an extra ordinary girl who reads and calculates really well even though she is young. However, Matilda is treated badly by her parents. So she counterattacks by outsmarting them. She puts superglue on her father’s hat, acts like there is a ghost in the house and puts her mother’s hair dye in her father’s massage oil so that her father’s hair becomes dirty grey. At the age of 5, Matilda goes to school. Her teacher, Miss Honey is kind and gentle. On the other hand, the head mistress, Miss Trunchbull hates children and treats them badly. Miss Trunchbull’s bad attitude toward students makes Matilda angry and she gets super powers. She can move things without touching it. When Matilda finds out that Miss Trunchbull is Miss Honey’s aunt who used Miss Honey as a slave after Miss Honey’s father died, Matilda decides to use her power to help Miss Honey. In Miss Trunchbull’s class, Matilda moves the chalk without touching is and writes as if it is the ghost of Miss Honey’s father. Miss Trunchbull runs away so Miss Honey gets back her property. Matilda’s family runs away to Spain because Matilda’s father got caught by cheating customers. Matilda stayed with Miss Honey and they lived happily ever after.

I think that this is a story which teach us that doing bad things well eventually be revenged and doing good things will be rewarded. At the end, Miss Trunchbull and Mr. Wormwood got punished for their bad behaviors but Miss Honey and Matilda lived happily ever after. I have some similar experiences. If I do something bad, it comes back to me in a long term. If I do something good, then I get rewarded in other ways. I think that even though life is quite tough, if you help other people like Matilda and Miss Honey, you have a happy ending one day.

I recommend this book to people who think that their life is tough. Even though this is just a children’s story book, it shows that Miss Honey and Matilda had a not really good life at first, but at the end they became happy. I want the readers to read this book and realize that even though life is tough now, if you help other people you will be happy.