ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Itching Powder, Fairy Tale, School Story
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Gendered child: girls" gifts lucy gets healing things (nurse) and susan a horn (to call for help, boys" gifts weapons, the witch is outcast for being warlike a woman. Not strictly fantasy or realist or school story. Things happen in matilda that don"t have scientific explanations or can"t be easily explained [ ]. Maybe the most fantastic of all is the idea that an administrator as outrageously terrible and abusive as the trunchbull would be able to hold on to her job without any problems. This argument is not using fantasy right. There are fantastical aspects to the book but this is not an argument for it. This is just an overblown thing, not a fantasy. She does use her cleverness to get her vengeance. This book demonstrates the fight between child and adult except matilda is shown as better than the adults, more intelligent. Unlike anne of green gables, matilda does not make the adults better.
