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The Secret Garden 
Plot :check:
Climax
Mary discovers a sickly young boy (Colin Craven) lives in Misselthwaite Manor. He is every bit as spoiled and demanding as Mary used to be. His father avoids him and travels a lot.
Falling Action
Colin's recovery is similar to Mary's. He begins to make friends and likes to be with nature in the secret garden. Although not able to walk before, Colin begins to heal and exercise.
Rising Action
Mary moves from India to Yorkshire. She makes friends with her maid, Martha, and with Dickon. Mary discovers her love for nature when she uncovers a secret garden and begins to sneak out to it everyday.
Resolution
Colin is reunited with his father, fully healed, and the two are reconciled as father and son.
Exposition
Marry Lennox is a spoiled child living in India. Disaster strikes when both her parents die of cholera.
Characters :silhouettes:
Mary Lennox
Mary is a lonely, selfish girl that meets friends and takes care of a garden. As she gets to know other people she becomes less contrary and more of a generous girl.
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Colin Craven
Colin is a sick and tyrannical boy. However, as Colin learns to rely on Mary and Dickon, and as he starts working out in the Secret Garden, his physical and emotional condition get much better.
Dickon Sowerby
Dickon is an all-around great boy who loves his homeland on the moors and seems to have a natural gift for looking after all living things—be they people, plants, or animals.
Questions :question:
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Critical Thinking
What if there was no Sowerby family in this book? How might Mary and Colin get along if they didn't have Martha and Dickon to introduce them to the Secret Garden? Would they still become friends on their own, or would they destroy each other through the sheer power of their spoiled selfishness?
How does the idea of home in The Secret Garden relate to the natural world surrounding the characters? In what sense might the moors or Yorkshire itself be particularly home to some of the novel's central characters?
Themes :red_flag:
Class
"It's th' air of th' moor that's givin' thee stomach for tha' victuals," answered Martha. "It's lucky for thee that tha's got victuals as well as appetite. There's been twelve in our cottage as had th' stomach an' nothin' to put in it. You go on playin' you out o' doors every day an' you'll get some flesh on your bones an' you won't be so yeller." (5.5)
The Natural World
"When Mary found this garden it looked quite dead," the orator proceeded. "Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing. I keep saying to myself, 'What is it? What is it?' It's something. It can't be nothing! I don't know its name so I call it Magic. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden—in all the places." (23.41)
Family & the Home
It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them even remembering that there was a Missie Sahib. That was why the place was so quiet. It was true that there was no one in the bungalow but herself and the little rustling snake." (1.29-31)
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