Leo Tolstoy said, "Happy families are the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes." ”
Even in adults, there are still many people who are lost in pain. So as a child, if there is no parental attention and love, how will the child grow? Mary will reveal her own story to you.
Mary is a six-year-old girl who has not been welcomed by her parents since she was born, but she has grown up against the odds, not only gaining friendship and affection, but also helping her cousin out of trouble. Mary is the protagonist of The Secret Garden.
The Secret Garden is a masterpiece by Frances Hodgison Burnett in the United Kingdom. After its publication, the book was translated into more than thirty translations in the United States alone, and in the United Kingdom it is not only a household name for children's novels, but also included as serious literature in the World Classics Series published by Oxford University.
Now let's look at the secrets of the secret garden from 1, the awkward Miss Mary; 2, having her own secret garden; 3, the magician who finds love; and these three aspects.
1. Awkward Miss Mary
Some people say: "A family without love will always make the child's personality go to the extreme"
Mary was born in India to a wealthy family, her father worked in the British government, he was always busy, and he was not in good health, always sick, he had no time to take care of Mary.
Mary's mother was a beautiful woman, she was always busy attending various banquets and dances every day, and her birth of Mary was an accident, so there was no Mary in her eyes.
All the servants, including Mary's wet nurse, knew that the best way not to make the mistress angry was to bring Mary out of her sight, much less to disturb mary with her voice.
Because they always try to prevent Mary from crying, this also develops Mary's selfish, arrogant, willful, brutal, and stubborn character. So the older Mary grew, the less pleasing she became. When it was time for her to accept it, she could not hire a tutor who was willing to teach her.
When she was 9 years old, Mary got up and did not see her nursing mother, who had been with her. Mary couldn't help but be furious, and she noisily asked the nurse to come over immediately. But the young maid only said that the nurse was in trouble and could not come over. Mary could still feel her panic.
Mary ran out in a huff, and she saw the beautiful woman. She was talking to a young officer, her big eyes filled with panic.
Later Mary learned that it was because cholera had broken out, the house was in chaos, and the nurse was dead. In the days that followed, the servants either fled or died.
Mary hid alone in the children's room, and no one thought of her, so she had to run out on her own when she was hungry to find food, and then hide back in the children's room after eating.
Early in the morning Mary could not hear a sound, she did not know what had happened to the others, whether they had escaped cholera, until there were footsteps, and Mary saw the young officer of the day again, and he looked at himself in amazement.
Mary also learned from his mouth that she was the only survivor of the cholera. Mary so calmly accepted the fact that she no longer had a home. Now what worries her is what kind of family life she will go to.
Mary was first placed in foster care in the home of an English priest who was not wealthy and had five children. Mary hated this messy home, and she hated the children. The children nicknamed her "Awkward Miss Mary." ”
However, Mary knew that she would not be here long, and she wanted to leave immediately, but she did not know where she would end up. They told Mary that they would send her to her brother-in-law Archibald. Mr Craven at The Mislsweet Estate in the UK.
Mary didn't know the so-called brother-in-law, only that it was a hunchback with a strange personality in someone else's mouth, and she didn't know what would be waiting for her at Mislswaite Manor?
It was not until Madame Medlock, the steward of the manor, received Mary, who told her that the manor she was going to was very large, with more than a hundred rooms, but was not allowed to move around, for Mr. Craven would not allow it.
Mary felt even more awkward, she hated it, but she would never have imagined how this trip to the manor would change her!
2. Have your own secret garden
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, "Nature heals diseases, and doctors are only assistants." ”
Mary arrived at the manor without seeing her brother-in-law, for he had no intention of seeing her yet, and the housekeeper, Madame Medlock, left Mary to stay in her room and not move around.
Mary was tired, and she was still thinking in her mind, as Madame Butler had said, a locke in love, and finally the beautiful woman who had died unexpectedly, and this lockey back, her brother-in-law, Mr. Craven, had become even stranger. So what would life be like in the manor?
When Mary woke up early the next morning, she saw Martha, the little maid who took care of her, but Martha was not like her own wet nurse, she was not an indigenous person in India. She let Mary dress herself to eat, and she couldn't understand why such a big person could do nothing.
Because she had twelve younger siblings in her own family, they all had to take care of themselves, sometimes the big ones had to help the small ones, but they were all so energetic.
Mary was driven into nature by Martha because she did not like to eat. She said that her brother Deacon was a child of nature, and he had many friends - ponies, little squirrels, little foxes... He can stay in nature every day, he is so happy and lively.
Mary became interested in Deacon and his friends, but mary was more interested in the closed secret garden in Martha's mouth.
There used to be a beautiful rose garden. Because Mr. Craven's wife had an accident in that garden, Mr. Craven ordered the garden to be sealed and the key to the garden was buried.
However, as Mary walked out of the room, she realized that nature was so cute, and Mary made friends with a mockingbird, and she became obsessed with running in the wild.
Mary changed, her cheeks rosy, her meals grew larger, and she never got bored with them again. Now she even felt ate Martha.
Perhaps luck always befell the happy child, and under the guidance of the robin, Mary found the key to the secret garden and the door of the garden under the cover of ivy.
Mary was so happy that she thought it was her secret base, and it was as if she had turned on the plug-in, and she had found in the garden that there were still living plants.
Mary asked Martha to help her buy some tools. She said she wanted to plant some plants, but Mary wanted to quietly make the garden its original state.
Martha tells Mary that her brother Deacon will help her, but that planting plants requires land first. At this time, because of Martha's mother, Mr. Craven remembered to meet Mary, and Mary took the opportunity to propose that she wanted a piece of land.
Mr. Craven cheerfully agreed, and he told Mary that she could choose herself in the manor. Mary was overjoyed, she thought she had chosen the secret garden, then it was her own garden.
When Deacon brings Mary tools, Mary shares her secret with Deacon, who promises to help Mary bring the garden back to life and keep it with her.
Mary runs in nature every day, she will quietly listen to the sound of nature, feel the vitality of everything in nature, Mary is like Deacon's mother said, she breathes oxygen in nature, absorbs energy, she can finally grow up healthy like other children.
Mary felt herself growing not only in strength and height, but also in knowledge and insight. And she also gained friendship and friends, she also felt the power of love, she would never feel lonely again, she felt like a magician of love.
3. Find the magician of love
Someone said: "Love can make people strong, love can make people out of loneliness." 」 ”
Mary's happy growth allowed her to discover more secrets of the manor. She found that the cry she had always heard before was her cousin, Mr. Craven's son, Colin.
Colin's mother died shortly after giving birth to him, and his father, Mr. Craven, could not accept the reality that his wife was gone, and he did not know how to face his wife-like son, plus the son was frail from an early age, so Mr. Craven only looked for caregivers, doctors and servants to take care of the child. And I always travel around the world.
So Colin had no friends, he had never been out of bed, and he had heard others say that he would not live long and that he would become a camelback that day.
Mary first met Colin because of crying, and after the two children met, Mary saw her former shadow in Colin.
Every day, Colin was afraid that he would not live long, and that he would become a camel. He locked himself in a small shell, but faced others with bad temper and arrogance.
Mary gets angry with Colin when colin makes another unreasonable fuss, Mary makes Colin understand that no one has to pay for his willfulness, and Mary describes to Colin the joy she gets in nature.
Everything Mary told brought Colin a novel feeling. Colin was eager to go outside to see nature and see the secret garden.
Mary and Deacon decide to take Colin to the Secret Garden, the three children share a common secret, and Colin has a desire to stand up on his own after coming to nature.
Mary was overjoyed, and she felt that there must be a loving magician hidden in this mysterious garden, and it was constantly changing everyone.
Mary told her friends what she thought, and they also felt that it must be so, otherwise why everyone is developing upwards and making continuous progress.
Happy days always pass quickly, and Colin went from being able to stand to being able to walk. Nowadays, you can also do some weeding and planting work. But his greatest wish was to one day stand in front of his father, Mr. Craven, and tell him loudly that he was a healthy child.
In fact, everyone can make mistakes, remember a sentence, "I like to see young people make mistakes seriously." ”
Because only by doing it does we know that we still have a chance to correct it.
On this trip, Mr. Craven had a dream that his wife had said to him, "I left him a gift in the garden." ”
So for the first time after Craven received a letter from Deacon's mother, he had the urgent idea of going home. He always felt that there would be changes in the family waiting for him.
Mr. Craven tries to find the key to open the garden, but he hears the laughter of the children in the garden and sees his son Colin standing in front of him, and Mr. Craven realizes how wrong his decadence was.
But fortunately, the existence of the secret garden allowed them to find their respective places and find the magician of love.
Write at the end:
We grew up in the secret garden with Mary, Colin, and Deacon, and eventually found the power of love.
In fact, everyone will always encounter different setbacks and difficulties on the road to growth, but as long as they do not forget that they have love in their hearts, they will eventually get out of the predicament and grow into a towering tree.
If you are interested, you can read "The Secret Garden" together, discuss it together, and grow up together.