Functional Oral Communcation
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Analysis of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
The Secret Garden
1.
I am meaning to write about the main character in the book, Mary, how she changes as a person and what it is that makes her change when she becomes an orphan and is brought to his uncle Mr Archibald Craven's house in England.
Mary is an unwanted child. Her parents do not want her. Her first ten years she grows up in India. The servants of the house take care of her. She is brought up by an Ayha witch is instructed to obey the slightest wish, the order is hat she is not to be heard, seen or do any fuss. Her mother must not be disturbed by crying or screaming. Since she can not be heard or seen, Mary always gets what she wants and grows up and become a tyrannical, spoiled and selfish child.
Her father had held a position under the English Government and always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when became sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and other native servants, as they always obeyed her and gave her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was tyrannical as selfish a little pig as ever lived. (7)
One morning when she wakes up she finds the house empty and deserted. She does not understand what has happened and why she's left on her own in the...
The Secret Garden
1.
I am meaning to write about the main character in the book, Mary, how she changes as a person and what it is that makes her change when she becomes an orphan and is brought to his uncle Mr Archibald Craven's house in England.
Mary is an unwanted child. Her parents do not want her. Her first ten years she grows up in India. The servants of the house take care of her. She is brought up by an Ayha witch is instructed to obey the slightest wish, the order is hat she is not to be heard, seen or do any fuss. Her mother must not be disturbed by crying or screaming. Since she can not be heard or seen, Mary always gets what she wants and grows up and become a tyrannical, spoiled and selfish child.
Her father had held a position under the English Government and always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when became sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and other native servants, as they always obeyed her and gave her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was tyrannical as selfish a little pig as ever lived. (7)
One morning when she wakes up she finds the house empty and deserted. She does not understand what has happened and why she's left on her own in the...