Of course we aren’t going to get magical powers like Matilda, but I can honestly say that I have learned more things from books (things about life, about understanding others and different points of view) that I can say that reading has made me who I am today. Wishing that I could just escape into the pages of the book and forget my own sad story. I can vouch that my refuge when life got me down and I felt as if my parents couldn’t understand me was a good book, and just like the character in the 1996 production, I would cry as I read. Others looked for refuge in other people, and sometimes the wrong kind of people. They didn’t realize how in trying to find a release in things like drugs they were causing more damage to themselves then good. Unfortunately, I know a few people who went to high school with me and would submerge themselves in alcohol or some other drug in order to escape the bad things that were happening to them. I feel that this book is a good read for children and makes for an amazing bed-time story because its a great way to sort of drill into your children from a young age that there are different ways to deal with the hardships of life. I’ve also been told by friends that every time they see me I have my nose stuck in a book. In my house I am known for locking myself in my room to read after having a row with my father. I’ve known what it’s like to submerge myself into a book as a defense mechanism when things are horrid. I quickly take a book, sit in a corned with a cup of coffee and lose myself.
I LOVE to read, and whenever I’m given the chance to read or watch T.V.
My parent’s don’t miss treat me or anything of the sort, but they do have a lack of enthusiasm when it comes to reading. A fascinating young girl who taught herself to read, and by the age of 4 was already devouring books in the public library the same way Augustus Gloop devoured sweets in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.Īs I read the story, I felt a sort of connection with Matilda because I have a similar dilemma. Matilda is a brilliant child who is severely neglected, ignored, and mistreated by her parents (who are not the sharpest tools in the shed). In Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” we meet a tiny girl who has one great passion: reading.
Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” – Roald Dahl, “Matilda” “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.