Matilda (novel)

Matilda is a children's novel by the Norwegian- Welsh writer Roald Dahl from the year 1988. It is about Matilda Wormwood, a 7 year old child prodigy, her mentally limited family and a tyrannical headmistress.

Action

Matilda's parents barely take care of it, but pay more attention to her older brother Michael. Her father is a used car dealer who bought cheap cars using fraud expensive resold and thus a lot of money. Matilda is in contrast to the rest of their primitive family very open-minded and gifted, but that no notice of her family. She brings in childhood even reading, writing and arithmetic at, but father and mother feel their talents rather than annoying, and train them even too late.

In school noticed Miss Honey (Miss Honey ), her teacher that Matilda is very gifted and challenged it. They therefore committed to a promotion to the sixth grade. However, the malicious Director Miss Trunchbull (Miss Trunchbull ), which keeps all the children for warped, it categorically rejects.

Miss Trunchbull is a former Olympian in the hammer throw, the extremely brutal deal with the school children and flings around as little schoolgirl pigtails. Since Matilda suddenly discovered that she has telekinetic abilities. First, she knows but does not quite use and familiar to Miss Honey on.

Matilda's relationship with her teacher is then more and more intense, and she visits them in their extremely poor accommodation. On this occasion, Miss Honey tells that Miss Trunchbull is her aunt, who has brought them to their heritage and where she grew up after her father's death under the most stringent conditions. Matilda is so shocked by this revelation that she decides to Miss Trunchbull fortzutreiben with their telekinetic abilities, what you actually succeed in this by making her feel guilty because of the debt of her death of Miss Honey 's father. Miss Trunchbull flees, and Miss Honey gets its due back the house.

But Matilda's parents are forced to flee, because the police who monitored for a long time wants to arrest Mr. Wormwood his crooked shops because. At the last moment, it is possible Matilda, to persuade their parents to sign a declaration in favor of adoption of Miss Honey, they race off with the car and Matilda can stay with their teacher.

Adaptations

Filming

The film Matilda, directed by Danny DeVito in 1996 in the cinemas.

Musical

In December 2010, the musical Matilda with lyrics by Dennis Kelly and music by Tim Minchin was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing in London since October 2011.