Matilda door Roald Dahl

Matilda is a little girl that already could talk like a grown up when she was one and a half.  Her parents, instead of applauding her, called her a little noisy chatterbox and told her that small girls should be seen not heard. By the time Matilda was three she taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines. At the age of four she could read fast and very well. When she asked her father if she could have a book, he said she could not have it because they had a telly. Nearly every day Matilda was left alone in the house. On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village. In the library she met Mrs. Phelps, who helped her every afternoon with selecting books. When Matilda finished reading all the children books she wanted to read the grown-ups books. So Mrs. Phelps chose a book for her, and by the time she had finished the book Mrs. Phelps had already picked a new one for her. One day Mrs. Phelps told Matilda that she also could take books home and return them when she was done with them. Matilda loved that. Soon she didn’t come every day but ony every week to get a few books.

Matilda’s father was a dealer in second-hand cars. But he wasn’t honest with his customers. One a night when they were watching the telly and eating together, Mr. Wormwood told Michael (Matilda’s brother) how he made so much money by dealing second-hand cars; he puts sawdust in the oil of the car. Matilda doesn’t like that her father is cheating his customers and then she decides to teach her parent's a lesson. She puts glue on her fathers hat that he wears each day to work. When he got to work he could not get his hat off. At home Mrs. Wormwood tried to get it off to but it didn't work so she had to cut it off with a pair of scissors.


Matilda was reading a book when her father came home and when saw it, he tore the book into pieces. Matilda screamed that it was a library book, but her father went on and on and on with destroying the book. A friend of Matilda's had a talking parrot. Matilda had a plan and asked Fred, the boy with the parrot, if she could borrow it for just one night in exchange for her next week’s pocket money. He agreed to it. As soon as Matilda was home she put the talking parrot in the chimney and waited for supper. During supper the parrot began to talk and everybody thought it was a burglar, but Matilda knew better. They thought it was comming from the dinning room. They went all together into the dinning-room with Matilda in front of them. When they all ran in to the dinning room with their weapons there was nobody so Matilda said it could be a ghost. When they all were eating again they where scared. of course Matilda had managed to get the parrot down from the chimney and took him back to Fred.

The next week Mr. Wormwood came home from work after having a very successful day. He told Michael what the cars had cost him and for what price he sold the cars for. Michael made a sum of all the numbers his father had told him. Before Micheal wrote the last word on the paper Matilda already said the answer. Her father had a note where he had already calculated the answer and when Matilda had gotten it right, he said she had seen the answer on his paper. Matilda was completely honest, but her parent’s didn’t believe her. So Matilda thought it was again time for revenge. The next day Matilda was so angry she switched her father's shampoo with her mother's Platina-Blond colouring shampoo, so that her father became blond when he washed his hair.

Matilda was a little late with starting school. When she went to school she was five and a half. She went to a school called Crunchem Hall Primary School. the Headmistress was called Miss Trunchbull, but Matilda's teacher was named Miss Honey. Miss Honey was a nice teacher. She started to ask questions to the children in the class to learn how much they already knew. When she started to ask questions in the class Matilda knew all the answers to her questions. Miss Honey then started to ask harder questions and Matilda also knew them. She thought Matilda was a very smart girl and wanted to tell that to Miss Trunchbull. When she entered the room of Miss Trunchbull and told her about Matilda, Miss Trunchbull started to laugh and said that it wasn’t possible and told Miss Honey to leave.

Miss Honey wanted Matilda to go to a higher class because she was so smart. She decided to go to Matilda’s parents. That very night she went to Matilda’s parents. When she arrived there Mr. Wormwood opened the door, but he was not very nice to Miss Honey. When Miss Honey told them about Matilda and how smart she was her parents didn’t believe her and Miss Honey thought  didn't make any difference if she stayed or not so she left. The next day at school Matilda and her school friend Lavender met Hortensia. Hortensia was older then Matilda and she started to tell stories about Miss Trunchbull and what she does to little children like them. Miss Trunchbull didn't like girly things either. Miss Trunchbull entered the schoolyard and saw a little girl called Amanda wearing ponytails. Miss Trunchbull told Amanda that she didn’t want her to wear them, but Amanda said that her Mummy likes them. Miss Trunchbull didn’t care and grabbed them and threw her over the gate.

One day the whole school had to come to the hall. Miss Trunchbull called for a boy named Bruce. He had eaten her cake and now he had to eat a whole cake by himself in front of all the children. When he  had almost finished the cake everybody started to yell that he could do it and when he finished the cake Miss Trunchbull picked up the big empty platter and brought it down on Bruce's head. One day of the week Miss Trunchbull would take over the class and see what the children had learned. Lavender was responsible for placing a jug of water on the Headmistress's table. Lavender didn’t like her so she thought out a plan; she woud put a newt in her jug. The next day Lavender did it and Miss Trunchbull entered the classroom. She had tested a few kids and then punished them all very hard because they didn’t know the answers. She walked to her desk and poured the water in her glass and when she did the newt went in the glass also. Miss Trunchbull screamed very loud and was very mad. She said Matilda did it but that wasn’t true.

Matilda was so mad that she started to stare at the glass and she said to herself "tip it over, tip it over", and by a miracle the glass tipped over and came down on Miss Trunchbull. Miss Trunchbull was so mad that she left the class. All the children were allowed to play on the playground, but Matilda stayed inside. Matilda told Miss Honey that she tipped the glass over and she showed her how she did it. Miss Honey couldn’t believe it, but she saw it happen. She promised Matilda to tell nobody about her powers. When the school day was over Miss Honey asked Matilda if she wanted to go home with her. Matilda said she would love to. When they arrived at  Miss Honey's home Matilda saw that Miss Honey was very poor. Matilda was talking to Miss Honey and she told her why she was so poor. When she was only two years old her mother died. Since her father was a very busy doctor the sister of her mother came to care and live with Miss Honey for a while, but when Miss Honey was five years old her father died too. Her aunt had her house but she didn’t like her. She was very strict with Miss Honey, and when Miss Honey got a job her aunt told her to do things for her because she had fed her everyday of her life. Miss Honey found her own house after a while, and when she told her aunt it she got mad. At the end of her story Matilda asked who her aunt was. Miss Honey replied that she was Miss Trunchbull.

Matilda got mad. Miss Honey's aunt was Miss Trunchbull, she couldn’t believe it! Matilda asked Miss Honey three more questions-what did Miss Trunchbull call her father (Magnus), what did Miss Honey’s father call Miss Trunchbull (Agatha), and what did Miss Honey’s father call her (Jenny). Once Matilda learned these three things she went home. When she got home she took a cigar and went to her room. She put the cigar in front of her mirror and started to practice lifting it up praticing writing with it on the mirror. After practicing with it for a week she was ready to put her great plan into action. The next day Miss Trunchbull came to teach the children again. After she punished a few children a boy started to scream and said that there was happening something on the blackboard:

Agatha, this is Magnus
This is Magnus
It is Magnus
And you’d better
Believe it
Agatha, give my Jenny
Back her house,
Give my Jenny back her wages
Give my Jenny the house
Then get out of here.
If you don’t, I will come
And get you
I will come and get you
Like you got me
I am watching you
AGATHA

The tinkle then broke in two. Then Miss Trunchbull fainted and a little boy, who was always was ready for some action, tipped the whole jugs of water over Miss Trunchbull. The next day Miss Trunchbull wasn’t at school and she wasn’t at home either. All her clothes where gone and so Miss Honey got her house back. Matilda was at Miss Honey’s home but she had to leave because it was a bit late. When Matilda arrived home she saw the car in front of the house and inside she saw her parent packing their bags. They were going to Spain because her father was caught by the police for selling stolen cars. Matilda didn’t want to go, so she ran back to Miss Honey’s house and she told her story and said that she didn’t wanted to go. Matilda wanted to stay with Miss Honey and she asked if she could stay. Miss Honey wanted that as well, but she thought Matilda’s parents wouldn’t agree with her. Matilda grabbed her hand and she began to run home. When she arrived she asked her parents and they agreed with her that she could stay with Miss Honey.