The Secret Garden By Archibald Craven

The author of Green Gulch conveys that when in a group, one can be overwhelmed by pressure that brings them to savage extremes. After being lost, a young boy joins a group of kids he has never seen before. The group is nice and offers to bring the boy home. They stop at a sanctuary of a pond. There is a turtle in the pond that is violently murdered by the boys after one decides to throw a rock. Then, the group turns on the new boy. They beat him maliciously and leave him stranded on the road to get home. As, the boy look backs he can’t think of what went wrong, “They stood in a little group watching me, nervous now, ashamed a little at the ferocious pack impulse toward the outsider that had swept them.” Obvious from the boys’ reactions, it was the fault of the group impulse. After the murder of turtle, the adrenaline and riot of the group caused them to turn on the next vulnerable target. They were not acting as they should have, and the realize that afterwards. They were nervous. Even though there is not immediately an adult around, they are nervous because society has conditioned them to behave. They are also ashamed. The shame shows that they are nice boys. They feel bad. This shows that the vicious group mind set was so strong that it came over there good personalities and conscious. However, there is only this slight remorse after the fact. This does not make up for the brutal murder and beating that they had dealt. Being in a group turned them into

In the book “Visionaries and Planners” the author, Buder, analyzes the impacts of the Garden

Somehow, Faelan managed to find her way to the garden. She did admit, rather reluctantly, that she had exited the castle as soon as she could and then followed the pebbled road towards greenery in the distance. She arrived first and took the opportunity to look around at the maze of green. There were emerald hedges that raced around in linear lines and flourishing flowers ordered and sectioned off between gaps in the hedges, as well, as impressive marble benches stationed at intervals along the path. Although it was much larger than the quaint garden in Highever, Faelan couldn’t help but be reminded of home. She fingered a still budding rose and thought briefly of her brother, Fergus.

The story us set in an old mansion located a good distance from town. A “delicious garden” (Gilmore 1),

It is not just a garden, but a garden of objectively bad plants, nettles which sting and leave hives, Sow lettuce, which is thistle, a mean

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, but also within their own. Consumed with a strong feeling of rejection, Mary Lennox has slowly began to live her life to just make it through the motions. She is quite forward with this.

After her morning bath she began her daily schedule. She sped through meetings about upcoming events and began her daily excursion through her garden. Until recently, the gardens were her only safe haven from the life of royalty. Quickly after her parents discovered this secret garden they made it open to the public. Nobility began to ravage her only quiet spot, leaving her to find another.

The Secret Garden Theme Essay “You brought us back to life Mary. You did something I thought no one could do. Don’t be afraid. I won’t shut it up again.” - said Lord Craven.

In the passage " the garden of the evening mist" by Tan Twan Eng was about two characters a young boy and a young girl who lived during the time of a war going on in their country. They lived under many bad influence people and was scared and afraid of the communist terrorist in their country. One day the girl lead the boy back into the jungle where they saw a hut so they went and try to open the hut to see what the girl wanted. When they had open the door there lay 3 dead bodies on the floor and the girl started screaming and crying. When I first read this passage I thought that it was going to be about the girl and the boy running away from the communist terrorist trying to save their own lives. I also thought that the boy and the girl was

Trees and shrubbery screened the house from view, but Ayla would have recognised any portion of her grandmother Mary’s garden. She had grown up roaming these pathways, enveloped in the scent of these blossoms.

Imagine living in a mansion, with more than a hundred rooms, containing a secret behind one of those doors. Imagine not being able to figure out the mystery. Imagine someone informing you that you are not aloud to search for the private room, or their will be a consequence. In the book, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, both protagonists are keeping a secret. For example, in The Secret Garden, the author states, “It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years and she put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the keyhole. She put the key in and turned it.” This secret garden Mary is trying to discover has not been found for at least ten years. She is not supposed to be looking for the secret garden, however. (Burnett, page 64) This shows that Mary has unlocked the door to the secret garden. No one has witnessed the key or the door in a decade. A robin becomes acquaintances with Mary and helps her find the key.

At the beginning of the school year, I set a reading goal for myself for the first quarter. This goal was definitely attainable for me, but I knew I would have to put some effort into it. My independent reading goal was to read over 480 pages and to read a book by an author I had never read. This goal did challenged me in a way where I knew I would have to make myself read even when I didn’t want to, but it was not a goal that challenged me a ton. I believe that this was a good first quarter goal, but I look to build on it over the course of the year.

Pittman starts off by setting the selby botanical gardens as the stage background and begins to give us the requisite of all the characters as the story unfolds in the novel explaining the exquisite gardens and complications that come along with it. He provides carefully researched support and ample information into selbys botanical gardens financial problems, personality conflicts with workers, and the overall statement of the book the orchid scandal. Pittman goes on to write the best way to garner publicity would be for someone ho as connected to the selby gardens to find the next “Phragmipedium besseae” (p.32) that was going to be the next orchid to ultimately change the orchid world forever. The adventures that came along wit this orchid

Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” tells the tale of a young, affluent Laura Sheridan and her encounters with the working class when a man dies on the day of her family’s social gathering. Although Laura’s sense of self has long been molded by her upper middle class Victorian society, Laura develops compassion, empathy, and awareness that distinguish her from her family. During her interactions with the workmen and the dead Mr. Scott, Laura proves through her reactions, diction, and actions that she will unroot herself from her family’s vain lifestyle.

The Garden Party takes place in early in the 20th century at the estate of a wealthy family in New Zealand. It was interesting story in the way that it portrayed the upper class in a not so fashionable way. In the story, Laura’s family is throwing a huge garden party. However, next door there is a family who is not so well off and they just lost the family patriarch in a tragic carriage accident, and yet her family insists on having the party delayed to pay respects to the next door neighbors. However, her self-centered family members refuse to, saying there is no need to cancel their party. Her sister goes on to even say when referring to the man who died, “You won’t bring a drunk workman back to life by being sentimental.”(Mansfield, 123) That just