Summary Of Matilda

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SUMMARY OF MATILDA The movie starts off when Matilda is a baby. She is very smart, and by age three has read everything in the house and wants nothing more than a book. So she starts going to the library and increasing her brainpower. Meanwhile at home, her parents are horrible and don't pay her any attention. Every time her father does something bad, she plays a trick on him (super gluing his hat to his head, putting bleach in his hair tonic). Her father is also a crooked used car salesman, and is being watched by two cops who pose as speedboat salesmen and videotape the house from across the street. Things start to look better for Matilda after her father meets Agatha Trunchbull, a headmistress of a local school, and he enrolls Matilda in school there. But the Trunchbull is a horrible woman (and an ex-Olympian, famous for shot-put, javelin, and hammer throw), who disciplines her students by throwing them out of windows, over the fence, making them eat huge chocolate cakes, and putting them in the chokey. All the students fear the Trunchbull. As horrible as the Trunchbull is, that's how wonderful Miss Honey, Matilda's classroom teacher, is. All the kids adore her. She recognizes right away that Matilda is a very smart child, and, after an unsuccessful meeting with Matilda's parents, gives Matilda work from the upper grades to do. But Miss Honey has a terrible secret--her mother died when she was a baby, and her father "killed himself" when she was five, but not before her father's stepsister had come to live with them, and Miss Honey was brought up by a horrible woman--Miss Trunchbull. One day when the Trunchbull is teaching Matilda's class, her friend Lavender puts a newt in the Trunchbull's water glass. When the Trunchbull is particularly mean to Matilda, she makes the glass tip over with her "special powers" in her eyes. Miss Honey knows Matilda is very
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