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    Secret Garden Quotes

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    Quotation: Important Quotations Explained The Secret Garden, Mary called it when she thought of it. She loved the name, and she loved the feeling that when the old walls shut in no one knew where she was. It looked like being shut out of the entire world in a fairy place. The little books she had read and adored were fairy-story books, and she had read about the secret gardens in some of them . Sometimes people slept there for hundred years, and she found that to be rather stupid.

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    “I was angry. I never cried. I didn’t know how to cry.” This quote was said by Mary Lennox, in the movie The Secret Garden, based on the book, wrote by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary is an orphan, brought into her uncle, Lord Craven’s, house, Misselthwaite Manor. Her uncle took her in after a terrible earthquake in India, that sadly took the lives of her parents. Mary never really had any friends and was always alone, her parents were not very caring nor affectionate to her, and never really paid

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    “The secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” This is a quote said in the movie, the Secret Garden. In the movie, the Secret Garden, based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the theme is trying to show you that you have to learn to open your heart and trust again even after you lose something or someone very close to you, this is shown in all four of the dynamic characters, Mary, Colin, Lord Craven, and Medlock. “She’s so sour; I heard she never cried when

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    In the book the secret garden by Frances Hodgsen burnett . The main charter is known as Mary Lennox a ten year old girl that has left her dead parents in India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , England . mary goes in as a spoiled unloved and unloving monster to a girl who is loved and caring . Mary likes to play with animals and spend time with her friend . The time setting of the book the secret garden is the early 1800’s in Yorkshire, England . The area that Mary was staying

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    stolen a garden. Maybe it’s dead anyhow.” Mary Lennox utters these strong words as she first realizes that there is a garden in her new home, a garden that is more than it’s physical appearance. This is Mary’s garden now, Mary’s heart. As the story The Secret Garden plays out it’s Mary’s job to decide if she will accept that the garden is simply dead or if she will search for life within it’s abandoned features, same as Mrs. Medlock, Colin Craven, and Lord Craven, but within not only the Garden’s features

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    The second oral interpretation assignment I did was much more free in a creative aspect than the first assignment I did, this time I was able to pick the passage from any book and I picked my favorite book, The Secret History by Donna Tartt. This passage was meant to entertain the audience and also convey a message, which was the main purpose of the assignment. In addition to the passage I chose, I also wrote a brief introduction that provided some background information about the book and the overall

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    The Secrets She Kept

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    The film “The Secrets She Kept” follows the life of Tia Giles, the main character who suffers from Bipolar disorder. Which can be described as a state of having both episodic depressed moods and episodic mania. Within the movie Tia began dealing with this disorder at the age of ten, and shortly after was diagnosed not only as bipolar but also with schizophrenia, the film however shows her at 27 still struggling to cope with her mental illness. Which was described in the film as a combined name to

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    Secret Life of Bees

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    Written by Sue Monk Kidd the novel "The Secret Life of Bees" traces the life of a 14 year old girl searching for love and care. The story begins in a peach farm in Sylvan, South Carolina but travels toward and ends in Tiburon, South Carolina. The city of Tiburon unleashes many truths that lily has wondered throughout her life. The town brings her what she has been longing for since she was a child. Fourteen year old Lily Owens lives with her cruel father who has piled her with the guilt and responsibility

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    The Secret Life Of Bees

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    In life, relatively anything can happen for a reason. Whether it occurs upon our own actions or not, instances may arise for a new change. Within the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, our main protagonist, Lily, is tested by making a life-changing decision to either return to her father, T. Ray’s captivity, or stay with the Boatwright sisters, whom she befriended on her runaway adventure. Even through tough times Lily has endured with T. Ray, when it was time for her to decide who should receive custody

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    The Secret Life Of Bees

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    American literature is an important part of literature for the modern student. This type of literature is relatable to students throughout the United States, and gives advice through different time periods in American history. The novel The Secret Life of Bees focuses on a young girl by the name of Lily Owens whose life revolves around that fact that she accidently shot her mother when she was only four years old. Lily’s “stand-in-mother” Rosaleen is her only real friend, and when she insults a group

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