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Mathilda

by Roald Dahl

The book "Mathilda" is written by Roald Dahl. The novel is about a girl name Mathilda, who was born in a family whom all show no interest about her and treat her rudely as she is "different" from all of them; as Mathilda is a hardworking girl and love reading books whereas her family loves being lazy, watch the television, and enjoys life. She is being hated by her family and was never treated as their own daughter.

Mathilda is a young 5 year old girl, with black hair and always dress herself neatly to look at the best of herself. She is a quiet and humble person who is friendly and nice to all her classmates. She is specially gifted with wonderful intelligence and magical powers which she was unaware of. She taught herself to read books at the age of 3 and has a magical ability to move things without touching, by using her eye power.

When she turned 5 and a half years old, she went to a school called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Her first day of school was great, just that she is a little different from her classmates. Her IQ is much higher than the rest. She could count the two times table till the end, without her realising she's one of the smarter ones in class. Speaks much more fluent than the rest and even could answer a question by not looking at it. She's more than just ordinary.

Mathilda had been a good student for the past 5 years in school now. She's 11 now and one day she got mad for being accused by her principle for something she never did. She unknowingly uses her magical powers and terrifies the principle away. She then realises that she has magical powers, and tries doing it at home to double confirms it. To her suprise, she could make things fly with just her eye power. Few hours of practice, she succeeded to control her powers.

Mathilda saw a friend of her's was being pulled on the ear by the principle and she plans to use her powers in good use. Scaring the principle by using her eye power to control the chalk to write on the blackboard, saying it was his dead husband hunting for her. Shocked, the principle fainted and mathilda successfully make her classmates happy after since. She and her classmates never see that nasty principle of theirs ever again.

Her father was caught cheating money, and her family plans to fly to Spain. Like any other student, she still wants to stay at her hometown and study with her friends. She was then being adopted by her form teacher, Miss Honey who was asked by her parents. And Mathilda live happily ever after.

In this novel, Mathilda's goal is to make her dream come true, to be in school like any girls do, and have a nice family who can treat her nicely. She attends to a school, but the school wasnt what she really dream of. The school was controlled by a nasty principle named Miss Trunchbull whom treats her students awfully. Then came to a day where she realised she has magical powers that somehow could be in good use. After the lost of the principle, her dreams come true to have a wonderful school and a bright life. She gets the news that her family is moving to Spain, and was adopted by Miss Honey later. Her story ends with her smiling, and live the life she dreams of to be.