Matilda (novel)
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by Norwegian - Welsh writer Roald Dahl . It is about Matilda Wurmwald, a 7 year old child prodigy , her mentally limited family and a tyrannical school principal.
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Matilda's parents hardly care about her, they pay more attention to her older brother Michael. Her father is a used car dealer who uses fraud to sell cheap cars at high prices, making a lot of money. In contrast to the rest of her primitive family, Matilda is very open-minded and gifted , but her family does not pay any attention to that. She teaches herself to read, write and arithmetic as a child, but father and mother find their talents a nuisance and even train them too late.
At school, Miss Honey, her teacher, notices that Matilda is very talented and therefore not challenged enough. She therefore advocates promotion to the sixth grade. The vicious headmistress Miss Trunchbull (Miss Trunchbull), who thinks all children are spoiled, categorically rejects this.
Fräulein Trüppelkuh is a former Olympic hammer throwing participant who is extremely brutal with school children and, for example, tossing little schoolgirls by their pigtails. Then Matilda suddenly discovers that she has telekinetic skills. At first, however, she does not really know how to use them and confides in Miss Honey.
Matilda's relationship with her teacher then intensifies and she visits them in their extremely poor accommodation. On this occasion, Miss Honey tells that Miss Trunchbull is her aunt, who has robbed her of her inheritance and with whom she grew up under the strictest conditions after the death of her father. Matilda is so horrified by this revelation that she decides to use her telekinetic abilities to drive Miss Trunchbull away, which she actually succeeds by making her feel guilty about the death of Miss Honey's father, which she is responsible for. Miss Trunchbull flees, and Miss Honey gets back the house to which she is entitled.
But Matilda's parents are also forced to flee, because the police, who have been monitoring them for a long time, want to arrest Mr. Wurmwald for his crooked business. At the last moment Matilda manages to get her parents to sign a declaration of adoption in favor of Miss Honey, then they race off in the car and Matilda can stay with her teacher.
Adaptations
filming
The film Matilda , directed by Danny DeVito , was released in 1996.
musical
In December 2010 the musical Matilda with lyrics by Dennis Kelly and music by Tim Minchin was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been playing in London since October 2011.
literature
- Roald Dahl: Matilda . Reinbek: Rowohlt , 1997. ISBN 978-3-499-20855-3
Web links
- Review of Matilda on KinderundJugendmedien.de
- Matilda in the square - book and film in comparison on mediaculture-online.de