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Miss Honey:
That's where Ms. Trunchbull lives.Matilda:Why is there a swing?Miss Honey:A girl I know used to live in that house.Miss Honey:Her life was good and happy. When she was just two years old, her mother died. Her father was a doctor, and he needed someone to look after things at home. So he invited the mother's stepsister to come and live with him. But the girl's aunt was a mean person, who treated the girl very badly.Matilda:The Trunchbull.Miss Honey:Yes. And worst of all, when the girl was five, her father died.Matilda:How did her father die?Miss Honey:The police decided he killed himself.Matilda:Why would he do such a thing?Miss Honey:No one knows.Miss Honey:The end is happier. She found a small cottage. She rented it from this lovely rhubarb farmer for just $50 a month, and she covered it in honeysuckle, and she planted hundreds of wildflowers, and she moved out of her wicked aunt's house, and she finally got her freedom
That's where Ms. Trunchbull lives.Matilda:Why is there a swing?Miss Honey:A girl I know used to live in that house.Miss Honey:Her life was good and happy. When she was just two years old, her mother died. Her father was a doctor, and he needed someone to look after things at home. So he invited the mother's stepsister to come and live with him. But the girl's aunt was a mean person, who treated the girl very badly.Matilda:The Trunchbull.Miss Honey:Yes. And worst of all, when the girl was five, her father died.Matilda:How did her father die?Miss Honey:The police decided he killed himself.Matilda:Why would he do such a thing?Miss Honey:No one knows.Miss Honey:The end is happier. She found a small cottage. She rented it from this lovely rhubarb farmer for just $50 a month, and she covered it in honeysuckle, and she planted hundreds of wildflowers, and she moved out of her wicked aunt's house, and she finally got her freedom
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That's where Miss TrunchbuII Iives
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Why is there a swing A girl used to Iive in that house
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Her Iife was good and happy When she was two her mother died
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Her father was a doctor He needed someone to Iook after things
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He asked the mother's stepsister to Iive with them
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But the girI's aunt was mean and treated her badIy
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TrunchbuII Yes
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Then the girI's father died How did her father die
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The poIice said he kiIIed himseIf Why wouId he do that
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No one knows
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The end is happier She found a smaII cottage
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She rented it for 50 a month and pIanted hundreds of wiId fIowers
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Movie Summary
This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work tells the story of Matilda Wormwood, a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude, distant father and mother.
