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The Secret Garden By Mary Lennox

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A girl named Mary Lennox has to go to live with her uncle when her parents die, once she gets their she doesn’t like the moor(grassland), with the help of friends she brings a garden back to life. With help from her friends they help her unlock the Secret Garden. When her uncle comes home from a trip one day he walks past the garden to find his crippled son running out of the garden. He is so happy he lets them keep the garden un locked and now everyone gets to enjoy the beauty of the garden. The tone of my book is mysterious. Throughout the book there is a lot of mysteries and secrets that no one can quit figure out. Why he locked up the garden seems to be the biggest mystery. Mary Lennox trys her best to find the key to the locked garden, …show more content…

The story is told in a first person point of view. She is telling us everything that is going on and how she feels. We are the reads who get to know all about her story. She is the story teller and we are her crowd getting to know all about Mary Lennox and just how her life is like. (top right corner) Mary’s characteristics are that she is blonde and she is very bossy. (page 8) She did not miss her at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbed child she gave her entire thought to herself, as she had always done. She likes things to be done for. She doent like to do much for herself. In her home town she had someone dress her and give her everything she ever wanted. Its her way all the time. I wouldn’t want to try and get my way with her, she will scream and kick until you finally do as she pleases. In my collage I chose pictures that show a girl reading a book because Mary tells the story. (bottom left corner)When Mary and Dickon are playing in the garden that is foreshadowing . I Chose the pictures for my collage that show kids playing and planting a garden. Will more people play in the garden too? You’ll have to read the book to find out. (page 155) I cant wait! I am going to see the

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