Oral Presentation
Molly: Hi I'm Molly.
Christian: And I am Christian. And we are going to retell the story of the Secret Garden.
Molly: In Chapter 13 Mary hears someone weeping in another part of the house. When she asks questions, the servants become evasive and say they cannot hear anything or say that it was the wind. Shortly after her uncle's visit, she goes exploring and discovers her uncle's son, Colin, a lonely, sickly boy as stubborn and spoiled as Mary used to be. His father shuns him because the child closely resembles his mother. Mr. Craven is a mild hunch back, and is morbidly convinced that Colin will develop the same condition. This fear is shared by Colin who for psychological reasons has never learned to walk. The servants have been keeping Mary and Colin a secret from one another because Colin doesn't like strangers staring at him and is prone to terrible tantrums. Colin, however, accepts Mary and insists on her visiting him often.
Christian: In Chapter 14, Mary tells Martha about Colin. Mary bonds more with Colin. When Dr. Craven walks in to the room with Mrs. Medlock they are surprised and scared to see Mary with Colin laughing. Colin orders them to leave and to allow Mary to see him. Later Mary tells him about an Indian Rajah she saw in India. Colin asks Mary to tell him more about Rajahs.
Molly: In Chapter 15 the moor is transformed into a beautiful oasis. Mary tells Dickon that she knows about Colin. Mary and Dickon then watch Ben Weatherstaff's robin build a nest.
Christian: As spring approaches in Chapter 16, Colin becomes jealous because Mary is spending more time out in the garden with Dickon than indoors with him. One day he tells Mary that she should not go to Dickon anymore. Mary gets angry with him and yells at him. After that he throws a tantrum. To the surprise and amusement of the servants, Mary continues to stand her ground.
Molly: That evening, Colin has a hysterical fit, brought on by his fear of dying young. Mary goes to him and, again taking a firm, no-nonsense stance with him and to calm him down slaps him in the face and to the servants' surprise, when Mary starts screaming at him, he doesn't object. Soon Colin and Mary calm down and Mary storms away. This is Chapter 17.
Christian: In Chapter 18 Dickon introduces Mary to his newest friends, two squirrels and a moor pony. Later Mary tells Colin that Dickon will come to see him later. She also tells Colin about the Secret Garden and that she has been in it.
Molly: The next morning Mary burst in to Colin's room and yelled, "It has come!", because spring had arrived. When he asks if he can visit the garden with her, she agrees, as she and Dickon had been planning to suggest it themselves, feeling that it would do Colin good. Colin's doctor, who is Mr. Craven's brother and Colin's uncle, agrees to have Dickon and Mary take Colin outside in a wheelchair. Later when Dickon arrived with his animals he introduced them to Colin and Colin was very happy.
Christian and Molly together: That is our presentation. Bye.
