Matilda by Roald Dahl Essay.

 Do you wonder what’s it like to live with a family that doesn’t pay attention to you because you’re different? Outside of school, I have been reading the book “Matilda, written by Roald Dahl.” Matilda is about a girl who is very intelligent and doesn’t have the parents to reward her for how much she’s smart.  Until she finally starts school at age six. The school Matilda goes to has a very mean principal but the teacher is the nicest adult, Matilda has ever met.  I thought the two major themes in “Matilda” were Magic and Love.

The first theme in “Matilda” is Magic.  In the book it explains how when Matilda is mad or upset she can do a special trick using her mind or her brain. For an example in one of the chapters the Principal, named Mrs. Trunchbull was going to visit Ms. Honey’s classroom. That was where Matilda was in class. As the kids were sitting down, Matilda’s friend Lavender was pouring a glass of water for the Mrs. Trunchball. The only thing the principal didn’t know was that there was a frog in the pitcher of water.  When Mrs. Trunchbull was about to drink her glass of water Matilda used her mind and tipped over the pitcher.  Mrs. Trunchbull looked down and saw the frog inside the glass of water.

Although Magic is an important theme, Love is also very important in the book Matilda. In the beginning of the story, the author explains to the reader that Matilda doesn’t have a family that really loves her because all her parents want to do is to watch TV. Matilda’s parents even she admits she is a mistake and they don’t love her because she doesn’t fit with the family. When I mean fit, I mean she’s different from them. She loves to read and learn. Her mom, dad and her brother just sit around and watch TV. So, in the end of the book the teacher loves Matilda, almost as if Matilda was her own daughter. At the end Matilda’s parents have Ms. Honey adopt Matilda. It’s a happy ending.

Those are the main themes you need to think about when you read Matilda because the first theme is about magic with Matilda controlling her power with her mind. First she started using her power when she got mad, for an example when she’s forced to watch TV she uses her mind to blow it up. The second theme you have to remember is love, for an example when Matilda is adopted by her teacher Ms. Honey.  Those are the two themes in “Matilda, written by Roald Dahl.”