The Secret Garden

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Summary: The Secret Garden a review by super-girl
Review: The Secret Garden

Have you ever discovered a place that has bee locked up for a long time? If so, then you can relate to The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary Lennox, the protagonist, moves from India to Misselthwaite, England because her parents die of cholera. She lives with her cousin Colin Craven, who thinks he's a cripple and believes he is never going to walk. Mary tries to convince him that he's not a cripple. The children meet Dickon, a local boy who they call the animal charmer. Together they find a magical world inside a garden.

Mary, Dickon, and Colin find the garden left alone and locked. They find a key with the help of Robin and then start to garden without anyone knowing it. Mary and Colin are very frail like a toothpick, but then they grow because the fresh air makes them well. Dickon is a teacher because he shows them how to garden.

Then, on a rainy day, Mary and Colin go into rooms in the house that are locked up and they learn about their ancestors. In Colin's room Mary sees a portrait hidden under a tarpaulin, she opens it and sees picture of Colin's Mother (Mrs. Craven). Mary asks Colin why it is covered and he tells her that he doesn't want to see her because she reminds him of his Father and how he is mad at him because he will be a hunchback. Finally, Mary and Colin learn to overcome their tantrums and the fears of never seeing their parents again. When the children are in the garden, they were caught by one of the gardeners, however he said that he wouldn't tell because he himself had been inside the garden.

Read to find out if the children ever get caught in the garden again, or if Colin ever walks. Ladies and gentlemen, I invite and encourage you to read The Secret Garden.

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Summary: Fascinatingly anachronistic
Review: "You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people--they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!"
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

In a time of political correctness and near-universal sensitivity about gender, race, religion and sundry other things, I am truly astonished to encounter anachronisms such as racial discrimination and children being allowed to partake of spirits in a work of classic literature that looms as large in the public view as Burnett's third novel. As the story unfolds in the unexpurgated version of The Secret Garden, it becomes clear that Burnett's book is written not in the now-hallowed tradition of the Hardy Boys' pulp absurdity, wherein heroes are true paragons of virtue, and villains have irredeemably black souls. Instead, what we have in this book is a mirror being held up to the vagaries of Pax Britannica: a blatant disregard for children and childhood, the privileges accorded by Empire, razor-sharp social stratification in a nation which was itself enmeshed in the Enlightenment fostered by Locke, Hume et.al.

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Summary: Secret Garden - H. Kleine
Review: I loved the book because it's a cute book and other people might like it. If you're older kid you might like it and the teachers and the parents might like it too. If you like reading about this parents and before died she was a spoiled kid. They always dress her and made her food and when her parents and when her parents died she went to live with her uncle. And her uncle's wife locked her in a room and a maid dressed her and fed her and then she went out to find some one to play with but a secret garden. I probably rate this book a 5 between 1and 10. The age group from 16-18 years olds might like this book.

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Summary: The Secret Garden
Review: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is about a girl named Mary Lannox who moves to an old mysterious mansion on a moor. With help of a loving robin, Mary finds a secret garden locked for ten years. Can Mary bring back what the garden what it used to be or not ?Dickon is a great moor boy character that can cham animals and help Mary reborn the garden. My faviorite part is when Mary hears a faint off cry in the dead of night. If you like to read excitement and mystery come read The Sectet Garden!

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Summary: The enchanted tale of The Secret Garden
Review: When orphan Mary Lennox returns to England for the first time,her only kin was her mother's brother Achibald Craven.He was a reserved,mysterious but rich man who lives in a big house.Mistress Mary was a pompous,mean-spirited and insolent girl who grew to be a selfish and inhumane girl.She had servants to serve her,and never thought of human relations before.

That was when Mary befriended Martha,the young,frindly servant in charge of her.Mary likes her,and her kind mother and all of her siblings and her brother,the animal charmer named Dickon,who loves nature and animals.Through her stay,Mary changes into a much better girl,who now knows that her uncle Mr Craven was a hunchback who still mourns after his young wife's death.Things began to get mysterious...she found the hundred over rooms locked all times,she saw portraits of a young woman,and she heard a soft cry at night...

Join Mary as a explore the house,unravels the key to the long-lost secret garden which was bolted for ten long years and her new relationship with her cousin Colin,,who only thinks of death and illness.

Through this,Mary realises the true meaning of life and her friendship with her friend Dickon and cousin Colin.A must read book.

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Summary: A treasured read!
Review: I read "The Secret Garden" as a child and fell in love with it.Now,as a 23 year old adult,it is still as endearing to me as it was then.The characters and the setting are so realistic.Whenever I read it now,I can still feel the cold wind and fog of England,and can also see every plant and flower in the garden.I recommend that children and adults alike read this book.You will treasure it.

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Summary: Woooow
Review: I read this book in school, and in class it was sort of boring, since we had so many reports, tests, and questions to do for it, and such things always ruin books for me. Well, I saw it sitting on my shelf collecting dust, and I thought, "I've nothing better to read right now, let's see if I still think that it's boring." I read it within three hours and I truly did not find it boring. Mary was such an interesting character, and I took to her immediately. Her developement from a bad tempered and unhealthy girl into a better tempered nice and healthy girl was gradual throughout the book, and I found it to be a charming book. For those who like nice stories for reading to your children at night or for just reading on a rainy day, read this book.

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Summary: An excellent read!
Review: I thought this book was great. I stumbled across it by accident in my school library and decided to read it because I had seen the movie, which i thought was great also.
I loved the detail of the book, it's setting in england, the spooky old manor with it's ghostly noises, but I esp.liked the characters
I loved mary's feisty, sour attitude
If u want to revive your imagination then read this classic; but beware of the thick yorkshire language in it, it took me some time to get used to it

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Summary: What's The Secret?
Review: If you went inside a secret garden, what would you do? The book The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is about a sour little girl who finds out about a secret garden that has been locked for ten years. She's also curious about some mysterious noises she hears at night.
I enjoyed the author's imagery in the secret garden. I liked the suspense of the book. The fact is that I want to read more and more. It was just a great book. I loved it!
I wonder if there is such a thing as a secret garden? I think the author was trying to tell us that sometimes things that you think can not come true really can! You should never give up! You should always love, share, and care for others!

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Summary: the key to life
Review: Have you been in a house where you hear crying? Well, first of all, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a book about a girl who lives with her uncle and his maids. One of them is a good person. The other is not so nice.
The author really described the flowers well. I felt like I was in the garden. The main idea that the author was trying to share is friendship.
Do you think the girl will ever find out the secret? You can find out why the book is called The Secret Garden if you try and solve the mystery!