OOD Readers Paradise - Reading Challenge Day 50
Good morning fellow bookworms. We express our utmost gratitude to our readers and would love more responses. For today's challenge, we want you to express your creativity through the segment,' Show your talent!!' You can write stories, poems, or anything else you like. Have fun fellow readers!!!
Your beloved bookworms
Aishwaryaa and Divyalakshmi
Poem on Micro Greens:
ReplyDeleteMicro greens are vegetable greens,
Something that fulfills our needs.
It helps as it is nutritious,
though not always delicious.
They have fully developed cotyledon leaves,
apparently that is what the scientists believe.
You can eat them in quite different ways,
but don't let that leave you in a daze.
Put them in a salad, sandwich, or soup,
You will enjoy them as much as an ice cream scoop!
Book Review on the book ' Matilda' by Roald Dahl
ReplyDeleteIn a small Buckinghamshire village, Matilda Wormwood, a five-and-half-year-old girl of unusual precocity, whose parents treat her with disdain, resorts to pranks like gluing her father's hat to his head, hiding a friend's parrot in the chimney to simulate a burglar or ghost, and secretly bleaching her father's hair, to get revenge on her parents (particularly her father) for their rude and neglectful manners towards her. Matilda has read a variety of books by different authors, especially at the age of four, when she read many in six months.
At school, Matilda befriends her teacher, Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. She tries to move her into a higher class but is refused by the headmistress, the tyrannical Miss Agatha Trunchbull. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood about their daughter's intelligence, but they just ignore her.
Miss Trunchbull also confronts a girl with pigtails called Amanda Thripp and does a hammer throw with the girl. Another boy called Bruce Bogtrotter is caught by the cook stealing a piece of Miss Trunchbull's cake; she makes him eat all of the cake.
Matilda quickly develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey and watches as Miss Trunchbull terrorizes her students with deliberately creative, over-the-top punishments to prevent parents from believing them. When Matilda's friend, Lavender, plays a practical joke on Miss Trunchbull by placing a newt in her jug of water, Matilda uses an unexpected power of telekinesis to tip the glass of water containing the newt onto Miss Trunchbull.
Matilda reveals her powers to Miss Honey, who confides that she was raised by an abusive aunt after her father's suspicious death. Her aunt is revealed to be Miss Trunchbull, who appears (among other misdeeds) to be withholding her niece's inheritance so that Miss Honey has to live in poverty in a derelict farm cottage, and that Miss Honey's salary is being paid into Miss Trunchbull's bank account for the first 10 years of her teaching career (while she is restricted to £1 per week in pocket money). Preparing to avenge Miss Honey, Matilda develops her telekinetic gift through practice at home. "When I pass the test, I will go into my room" is Matilda's favorite line throughout the story. Later, during a sadistic lesson that Miss Trunchbull is teaching, Matilda telekinetically raises a piece of chalk to the blackboard and writes on it, posing as the spirit of Miss Honey's late father and, addressing her using her first name (Agatha), demanding that Miss Trunchbull hand over Miss Honey's house and wages and leave the school, causing Miss Trunchbull to faint.
A short while later the school's deputy head teacher, Mr. Trilby, visits Miss Trunchbull's house to try and find out what has happened, but finds it empty with no sign of what has happened to her. As Mr. Trilby becomes the new head of the school, he proves himself to be capable and good-natured, with the result that Matilda herself advances to the highest level of schooling. Rather to her relief, she is no longer capable of telekinesis; this is explained by Miss Honey as the result of using her mind on a more challenging curriculum. Matilda continues to visit Miss Honey at her house regularly, but one day finds her parents and her older brother Michael hastily packing to leave for Spain, which Miss Honey explains is the result of the police finding out that he has been selling stolen cars. Matilda asks permission to live with Miss Honey, to which her parents rather uninterestedly agree (her mother somehow finally understanding Matilda's bond for her teacher). Matilda and Miss Honey both find their happy ending, and the school's atmosphere and curriculum overwhelmingly improve under Mr. Trilby.