The Secret Garden

THE SECRET GARDEN BY: FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Genre: My Choice

This story is about a girl whose name is Mary. Her parents didn't love her or care about her.Mary's parents died in an earthquake so Mary had to go stay with her uncle. Her aunt had died and her uncle didn't have time for Mary because he was busy with his own work.Mary didn't have any friends until she met a boy whose name was Dickon who was the brother of the maid who took care of Mary at her uncle's house. One day Mary heard a boy cry and later found out that she had a cousin whose name was Colin and was kept hidden because people thought he was sick but he was just weak because he had never walked before. Later that day Mary followed a bird which led her to a secret garden. She was told by the gardener that her uncle has closed the garden and it was forbidden to go there. Mary found the key to the garden and secretly Dickon and she started to plant flowers. Dicken told Mary that her aunt had died in that garden and that is why her uncle closed it and started ignoring Colin. . Mary soon brought her cousin Colin to the secret garden where he learned to walk. Suddenly one day Mary's uncle wanted to see Colin and meet Mary he found them at the garden with Dickon. Her uncle hugged them tight, played games with them and promised them that things will be different, that he will not neglect the children anymore. All the children walked back from the garden to the house and the maids and servants in the house shrieked, as they had not known that Colin had started walking.  It was the children’s little secret and it was all possible because of the secret garden.