![]() They’ll take too much time, too much effort, and too much space in a crowded, frantically busy world. ![]() I don’t think flower gardens will exist in 2101. I like the fact that Mary Lennox is not pretty, that she is not a gifted child, does not take dancing lessons or gymnastics, and that when she becomes friends with the elderly gardener, no one suspects that he might be a pedophile.Īnd - okay, I confess - I would choose it for the memory of gardens, of moist earth and glistening worms and new shoots of pale green. My choice would be The Secret Garden - which has already been around for close to one hundred years - because it reminds me of a time that moved more slowly, that had no glitz or sound bites. The children all agree to hide Colin’s improvement until his father comes home, thinking that his father will love him if he is healthy.īurnett, F. Colin attributes his growing health to magic, which an adult might define as positive thinking. Soon he discovers that there is nothing wrong with him and with the encouragement of the other children, he begins walking. Soon they begin taking Colin out in his wheelchair, and the fresh air agrees with him. ![]() After much discussion, they agree to let Colin in on their secret. Mary also meets Dickon and his animal friends and invites him into the secret garden, where he shows Mary how to tend to the tangled plants. Mary and Colin strike up a friendship to the shock of his nurse and the other servants. Craven’s invalid ten-year-old son, Colin, a boy who gets everything he wants except the love and attention of his father. One night, she hears crying and while roaming the many rooms of the manor to determine the source, she discovers Mr. Mary also gets to know gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff and his semi-tame robin, who leads her to a buried key and the ivy-covered door of a secret garden that had been closed and locked following the death of Mr. In time, Mary comes to get to know Martha and looks forward to Martha’s stories of her family, in particular, Martha’s twelve-year-old brother Dickon, a boy who loves the moors as much as Mary hates them. She spends much of her time at the manor alone, wandering in the gardens at the suggestion of Martha, her housemaid. Following the death of her parents in a cholera outbreak, she is sent to live in Yorkshire, England with her wealthy widower uncle, Archibald Craven, a man who travels frequently to escape his own bleak view of life. Ten years old and sickly, Mary Lennox has grown up in British-occupied India with lots of servants, very little parental interaction, and no friends. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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