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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes
Carrera de Lenguas Extranjeras

Activity: Analyzing Matilda's book by Roald Dahl

English Reading Seminar Class

Mrs. Rosa Oneyda Palacios

Presented by: Cintia Paola Matute Maldonado 20181003131

August 17, 2022

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Reading brings many benefits to people, such as developing critical thinking, increasing knowledge, and taking the reader on a journey through different worlds and contexts; however, literary analysis is essential to understanding a story in all its splendor. The literary analysis consists of an evaluation to recognize the different aspects that make up academic work. On this occasion, the story of Matilda by Roald Dahl is analyzed; Matilda is a very talented and intelligent girl, but She has unpleasant and carefree parents to the point that they are unaware that they have a brilliant daughter. This book offers unforgettable characters and imaginative situations that make it, by its form and content, a memorable experience for its readers.

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Roald Dahl was inspired by his own children, and he routinely made up stories for them at bedtime. Roald wrote Matilda with the purpose of entertaining readers between 8-12 years old, and it is a historical fictional story. Matilda is a genius girl who, at only five years old, is an incredible reader, sensitive and intelligent, but with mediocre and carefree parents who consider her useless. Matilda also develops extraordinary powers and uses them against her parents and the terrible headmistress of the school she attends "Trunchbull."

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The intelligent Matilda Wormwood is different from the rest of her family. Misunderstood by everyone and ignored at home, she escapes into a reading world. She went to the library every day when her father worked, her mother played bingo, and her brother went to school. When Matilda was sent to school for the first time, she found a good group of friends, a sweet and excellent teacher named Ms. Honey and a terrible and sadistic principal named Ms. Trunchbull. Ms. Honey discovered Matilda's abilities and wanted to pass her to a higher grade, but Ms. Trunchbull did not want to help her, so during a visit from the headmistress, Matilda discovered her powers and discussed them with her teacher. There, Matilda begins to use her powers against her parents and the school principal until she manages to get Mrs. Trunchbull to return the house and money to Mrs. Honey, her niece and heiress to everything Mrs. Trunchbull owned ever since Ms. Honey's dad died. In the end, Matilda's family goes to Spain, and Matilda lives with Ms.Honey. (Man vs. Society).

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Main event

Matilda becomes friends with her teacher, Miss Honey, who manages to expel Ms. Trunchbull, the cruel headmistress, and her negligent parents let her live with Miss Honey.

Events order

Exposition: The author introduces Matilda to saying about her abusive parents.

Rising Actions: Matilda goes to the school and meets Ms.Honey and Mr.Trunchbull.

Climax: When Mr.Trunchbull thinks that Magnus is alive.

Falling Action: Matilda gets Ms. Trunchbull to leave school.

Resolution: Matilda and Ms.Honey live together.

The order of events is essential for the story to be coherent and have an excellent plot.

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Matilda takes place in an English village, specifically at Matilda's home, at the public library, at school, and at Miss Honey's cottage. In the English village, there are a grocery store, a butcher, and a bank, and at school, everything is beautiful except when it is Thursday, and Mrs.Trunchbull comes to the classroom to give an hour of class. The place where the story unfolds is in agreement with what the author wants to express a village in which there is only one school for the children to learn since, in the story, it is narrated that the majority of parents do not care about the education of his children, a bookstore that hardly anyone uses except Matilda and a butcher shop where everyone buys.

Settings must be related to the story so that it has coherence and sequence.

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Point of view

Matilda has narrated in the third person omniscient the narrator focuses mainly on Matilda and her thoughts and feelings but includes the perspective of other characters as well.

The author chose this perspective because he can know everything about Matilda and the others characters and all about the story.
Tone: Enthusiastic
Mood: Humorous

Style: Playful, Funny, Engaging, Hyperbolic, and Exaggerated

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Matilda: she is the protagonist, and she is sweet, intelligent, brilliant, kind, and with a great mind that gives her telekinetic power.

Mr.Wormwood: is Matilda's father; at the same time, he is one of the story's antagonists. He is a second-hand car salesman and grumpy, a deceiver of people, and has little intelligence; he is short and has a mustache.

Mrs.Trunchbull: is the headmistress at Matilda's school and the other antagonist of the story. She is strong and rude, giant and moody, and hates children because he stripped Ms.Honey of what belonged to her.

Mrs.Wormwood: is Matilda's mother; she has little intelligence. She was a silly person, a little tall and with blond hair.

Ms.Honey: is Matilda's teacher. She was a sweet, intelligent, and kind person and skinny, and she was brown hair.

Michael: is a silly boy Matilda's brother; he was a short boy.

Amanda: is Matilda's classmate; she is a short girl and very kind.

Ms.Phelps, Bruce, Lavender, Nigel, Rupert, Erick, Wilfred, Mr.Trilby, Hortense, etc.

Static- Stereotype: All the characters remained the same physically and psychologically.

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Simile: For example, you could almost feel the dangerous heat radiating from her as a hot red metal rod.

Personification: For example, Mr.wormwood was advertising a car, saying, "she is a real beauty."

Imagery: For example, when Dahl describes the character as Mr. Trunchbull.

Hyperbole: For example, If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull, she will blend you like a carrot in a kitchen blender.

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Literary analysis is essential to get to the bottom of each story told and discover the author's purpose and what inspired him to write such a story.

Matilda is a brilliant girl who, despite the neglect and ignorance of her parents, was able to develop her mental capacities, and in this way, she was able to be happy with Ms.Honey.

Matilda is an exceptionally smart girl who learns very independently without the help of their parents. That is an excellent example for all the children reading this book so that they can adopt the attitude of Matilda and be brilliant children.

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I enjoyed the story a lot because I had already seen the movie and I imagined everything, the part I enjoyed reading the most was when Matilda made Ms.Trunchbull believe that Magnus was alive and managed to make her disappear, and finally Ms.Honey was able to have what she Belonged to him. the ending was a little different from the movie, and it was very nice because there was a little more development.

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