The Secret Garden

“Infobox Book”

name	The Secret Garden
image
image caption	Children’s Classics hardcover
author	Frances Hodgson Burnett
country	U.S.A.
language	English
genre	novel
publisher	Scholastic Inc.
release_date	1911
media type	Hardback and paperback
pages	298
isbn	0517189607

Character Summaries

Mary Lennox

The main character of the history at first. She is the one who finds the confidential garden at first. She is an orphan who comes to live at her uncle ‘s firm. She is unloved at inaugural, but soon comes to find friends who accept her .

Colin Craven

The son of Archibald Craven. Colin believes himself to be ill and near-death, and indulges in tantrums all of the time. mary teaches him how to behave properly and how to have confidence in his own forte. With Mary and Dickon ‘s aid, Colin goes to the garden and his health is restored .

Dickon Sowerby

Dickon is an expert of the ways of the bring. He is able to tame animals instantaneously. He spends a fortune of time in the garden with Mary and Colin, helping to change them for the better .

Martha Sowerby

Mary ‘s maid and besides her ally.

Ben Weatherstaff

The aged gardener of Misselthwaite. He was close to Lilias before her death. He secretly visits the garden once a year. He helps the children keep the garden a clandestine .

Archibald Craven

The owner of Misselthwaite. He is haunted by the death of his wife, indeed much so that he will not spend any time with his son until he has a exchange of heart at the end of the fresh .

Lilias Craven

Colin ‘s mother and Archibald ‘s wife. She died ten-spot year before the start of the novel .

Susan Sowerby

The mother of Martha and Dickon. She is kind and charitable and helps out Colin and Mary .

Mrs. Medlock

head of the servants at Misselthwaite. She seems identical prim and proper but is besides kind .

Dr. Craven

The brother of Archibald. He will inherit the manor upon Colin ‘s death, thus does not try excessively hard to cure him .

Chapter Summaries

Chapter One

The independent fictional character of the fib is Mary Lennox. Mary was born in India, her hair was scandalmongering, her face was scandalmongering, she had a small dilute confront, and a fiddling thin torso. She was a disagreeable looking child, and she wasn ’ thymine very nice. Her mother didn ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate aim care of Mary, and went to parties all the time, so Mary had to go to her uncle, Archibald Craven ’ s family. She was taken care of by her Ayah, but one day everybody died because of cholera. Mary hide in the nursery, but everyone has forgotten her .

Chapter Two

Mary is sent to an english clergyman ’ second house because her Ayah and her family are all dead from cholera. In the clergyman ’ s house, Mary gets teased by the clergyman ’ mho children. She gets a dub from them which is “ Mistress Mary, ” and a song : “ Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary How Does Your Garden Grow ? With Silver Bells and Cockle Shells, And Marigolds All In a Row ” then, Mrs. Medlock comes to pick Mary from the clergyman ’ second house. She finds out that the owner of Missethlwaite Manor ’ sulfur wife has died .

Chapter Three

The house-keeper ’ mho identify is Mrs. Medlock. Mrs. Medlock and Mary go to the post and eat their lunch. They drive to the Misselthwaite Manor. It is raining, and the wind is strong, making foreign sounds. Mrs. Medlock puts Mary in a room all alone .

Chapter Four

Mary goes to the Misselthwaite Manor and finds out it is far off from cities. She besides finds out that she has to learn some basic things like changing her clothes by her self because her Ayah was changing her clothes in India. besides she finds out about shoes. Mary besides finds out that there is a garden that has hundreds of rooms. She hears that there is one door that has been shut for ten-spot years. She travels in the garden that has many doors. then she ends up in a wall with no door. But over the wall, she finds a tree and a bird in the tree. then she finds a man called Ben who is a gardener of Misselthwaite Manor and finds out that the gardener, Ben, is friends with the shuttlecock. She heard that Ben became friends with the shuttlecock because when the bird was a baby, Ben helped the tired boo. But while helping the bird, the class of the bird flew away and the dame became alone so the dame came back to Ben .

Chapter Five

Mary wakes up and eats her breakfast, then decides to go out and it is the best thing she ’ second done in her life. Mary does n’t have anything to do, so she goes outside and talks with Ben. Robin and Ben are talking. Robin starts sing and it reminds Mary of a tree in a clandestine garden. Robin lives in that tree. The clandestine garden doesn ’ triiodothyronine have any doorway, but ten years ago, Craven had the keys and he buried them somewhere. He buried the keys, because his wife died at that corner, so he hated the secret garden. Mary goes back and she hears person cry, but Martha says it is just the wind .

Chapter Six

It is raining outdoor and Mary is bored. She asks Martha what she can do inside the family. Martha suggests Mary read some books but Mary hasn ’ thyroxine got one. Martha remembers about the library in the apartment. then she comes up with an theme to search in the apartment and see if she can count all the doors and rooms. As she travels through the apartment, she finds a sneak. She wishes to be friends with it but she can ’ thyroxine because the shiner is afraid of her. then she gets tired of traveling so she starts to go back to her own room but loses track. then abruptly, she hears a cry voice. Mary tries to find it out but Mrs.Medlock appears and takes Mary back to her own room .

Chapter Seven

Martha has a day out, so Mary is alone. She goes straightaway to the confidential garden and she finds Ben, so they talk. Mary asks Ben where the key is buried, but he says he does n’t know. Ben tells Mary to ask Robin. robin goes into the garden, and he starts digging and gets something like a ring. It is not a hoop, it is a keystone for the secret garden that was buried ten years ago .

Chapter Eight

Mary finds the winder that looks like it was the secret garden ’ south. She decides that she will keep the key for if she finds the door to the garden. then, she finds out that Martha is back to her family and has bought a leap out lasso for Mary. Mary does not know how to use such a thing thus Martha teaches her. When she tries it, she finds out that it is fun to play with it. then she meets the robin. She asks to lead her to the door. When she goes near the robin, a tip rush, and she sees a door knob. She grabs it and finds a key hole so she tries the winder. then she is in the secret garden .

Chapter Nine

It is the sweetest and most mysterious looking stead. Mary finds a few acuate, pale k points in the garden then she thinks the roses are dead, but some early things were animated. She weeds the garden. then she goes back to her room. Mary and Martha started writing a letter to Dickon to ask him to buy garden tools and seeds for her. mary remembers that she is the alone one to go into the garden for the final ten years, and she feels happy. She besides remembers that if she is seen or caught going in and out the garden, she might be scolded and the key to the secret garden might get changed so she remembers to be careful about not being seen or noticed by people .

Chapter Ten

Mary is constantly eager to go to the Secret Garden, and she changes a fortune. She goes outdoors a lot more. She looks after the garden and has a lot of fun doing so. Mary and Ben are friends now. They talk about gardening in concert. Mary asks him about roses and many other things .

Chapter Eleven

Mary finds out that Dickson knows about the mystery garden because Martha has told him. He never thought he would actually go there though, and thinks that it would be a fantastic locate for birds. He and Mary clear up the garden a bite. Dickson wonders if person else has been tending the garden, since lots of plants are still active despite the fact that Master Craven has kept it shut up for ten years. Mary and Dickson quickly become full friends, but Mary is worried that when she has to leave the garden that he will disappear.

Chapter Twelve

Mary tells Martha about meeting Dickon, the latter of who is amused that Mary thinks he is “ beautiful ”. Mary ’ second uncle has returned from his trip abroad, and has been confronted by Susan Sowerby, the mother of Dickon and Martha, for neglecting Mary. Master Craven wants to see Mary immediately because he will entirely be at Misselthwaite for a sidereal day. Mary is overjoyed at the estimate of seeing him. Mrs. Medlock takes Mary to see her uncle. Mary discovers that he is strange looking and seems identical deplorable. He tells mary that he forgot about her and asks if she wants a nanny or a teacher. Mary says no, that she ’ five hundred much preferably learn through gambling. All she wants is a place to garden. Craven says yes to this, as it reminds him of how much his asleep wife loved to garden.

Mary is identical happy and immediately goes to find Dickon in the hidden garden, but he is not there. All he has left is a notice promising his reappearance .

Chapter Thirteen

Mary can not sleep because of the storm at night. She hears person cry, so she goes to find out who it is. Mary finds a thinly, sallow boy sitting in the in-between of a gigantic seam, crying. Both of the children think the early one is a haunt. The boy in the bed is Colin Craven, son of Master Craven. He is the lapp age as Mary, but identical ailing. His father has much abandoned him because Colin reminds him excessively a lot of his dead wife, and Craven will not even let the servants talk about Colin. Colin is desperately lone and refuses to leave the house. He is given anything he wants by his father and spoiled by the servants. Mary tells him about the secret garden. Colin wants to see it, but Mary is worried about showing it to Colin. He promises to keep it a secret. He says that the reason he was crying is because of his impending end, which everyone has been saying will happen before he is an adult. He reveals that his repair is his uncle, who would inherit the manor upon Colin ’ s death and therefore has quite a vest pastime in seeing the boy fail.

Chapter Fourteen

Mary tells Martha about meeting Colin. Martha is worried that she will lose her job because she was supposed to be guarding Colin but fell asleep, but Mary says Colin wouldn ’ t get that happen. Martha tells Mary that all of the servants fear Colin and his temper. Mary and Colin become friends, as Mary does not bow to his every will like the servants do. Mary is convinced that if she takes Colin to the garden that she and Dickon can convince him to live .

Chapter Fifteen

Mary and Colin continue their friendship. Colin feels that his beget does not love him, and he wishes that he had never been born. Mary decides that she and Dickon have to find a way to bring Colin to the clandestine garden .

Chapter Sixteen

Mary can ’ thyroxine come to Colin when he requests her because she is busy. She is annoyed that this makes Colin throw a fit. Mary and Colin have an argument after Colin says he will forbid Dickon from ever coming to Misselthwaite if Mary does not spend more time with him alternatively. Mary tells him that he isn ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate anxious, he ’ south fair spoiled and attention-seeking. Craven sends Mary a excerpt of beautiful gifts. In the end Mary decides to go and see Colin again, because she knows that partially of his anger towards her was caused by worry about his own health .

Chapter Seventeen

Colin screams all through the night, alarming all of the servants but merely annoying Mary. He tells her that he can feel a bulge growing on his back and that means he will die soon, but Mary merely tells him that his second is absolutely straight, which it is. This changes Colin ’ second view of himself, and Mary tells him that possibly his illness was all imagined. Colin says that he will go outside with Mary .

Chapter Eighteen

Mary tells Dickon that Colin will be coming to the garden besides, and that Dickon should come and visit Colin in the manor first. Dickon agrees .

Chapter Nineteen

Dr. Craven comes and examine Colin. Mrs. Medlock tells the repair that Colin has improved greatly, but the doctor says that going outside may exhaust Colin. Colin says that he will be fine, and that he won ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate let anyone but Mary and Dickon go with him. Dickon and Colin meet for the first clock, and although Colin is a bit shy at beginning, they all cursorily become fast friends and start to prepare for Colin ’ s trip to the secret garden .

Chapter Twenty

The children can not immediately go to the garden because of poor weather, but Dickon comes every sidereal day and tells them that the garden is inactive growing nicely. Colin says that the garden must remain secret and cipher else can know of his travel here. They plan to go to the garden that day, and Colin is very activated. He is amazed by the garden and that he feels that his health is improving more and more .

Chapter Twenty-One

The children are enjoying the garden, but are discovered by Ben, who is angry that they were able to get into the garden. Ben asks if Colin is a cripple, which angers him enough to stand up from his wheelchair. He demands that Ben come into the garden and lecture to them .

Chapter Twenty-Two

Colin asks Dickon if it was his charming that made him able to stand and walk, but Dickon says that it is n’t, it is just the lapp might that makes the garden so beautiful. Ben says that he has actually been visiting the garden once a year, and that the former mistress of the house was adoring of him. Colin says that the garden belongs to him now, planting a single rose to ceremoniously mark the garden as his .

Chapter Twenty-Three

The doctor has been waiting for Mary and Colin to return. Colin is ill-bred to the repair, bothering Mary. Colin says that he will try to stop being natural. The children enjoy all of form in the garden along with Ben. Colin ’ s health improves dramatically. He keeps this positive news from everyone, so that it will be a surprise to his don when Craven returns .

Chapter Twenty-Four

Dickon tells his beget Susan about the garden, believing her to be trustworthy. He besides tells her about how Colin ‘s health has improved, and that they are trying to keep it a privy. Susan helps them out by giving Mary and Colin extra food so that they can hide their increased appetites from the family. Dickon besides helps Colin to improve his persuasiveness through an exercise program .

Chapter Twenty-Five

The robin is making a nest and observing the actions of the children in the garden. Colin and Mary have to stay inside because of the inadequate weather, but amuse themselves by exploring the house. Colin reveals a beautiful portrayal of his mother, feeling himself well enough nowadays to be worthy of seeing it .

Chapter Twenty-Six

Colin feels so well that he says he intends to write a book about the “ charming ” that restored his health.

The children show Susan the garden .

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Craven returns to the manor, sad that he has neglected his son for so long, but eager to change. There is a happy reunion between him and Colin at the end of the story, with all of them apparently living happily ever after .

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