Matilda
Too smart for her own good, is a legendary saying used for people that
are so smart that at the end of their life it can be dangerous for them. In the
fantastic story Matilda written by Roald Dahl, the author describes a young
girl's life that is affected by lack of love and affection and her being too
intelligent for her age and time.
It was the beginning of summer in 1993 the climate was starting to get hot
and the Wormwood family didn't pay much attention to Matilda and her incredible
abilities. The local color and verisimilitude of the setting consists in the
typical modern-day English village, lots of houses with gardens full of flowers
infront of each house, people walking their dogs in the street, cars passing by,
kids laughing, happy people all over the place, Matilda's friends running around
following their lost red ball.
Matilda Wormwood, a remarkably bright little girl, had taught herself to
read at the age of three; by the age of four she had......
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