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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.

Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.

The author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was a practitioner of Christian Science due to the premature death of her son as well as personal illness.[2] As a result, The Secret Garden espouses the concepts of New Thought and theosophy as well as ideas about the healing powers of the mind.[3]

The garden is the book's central symbol. The secret garden at Misselthwaite Manor is the site of both the near-destruction and the subsequent regeneration of a family.[4] Using the garden motif, Burnett explores the healing power inherent in living things.
Maytham Hall in Kent, England, where Burnett lived for a number of years during her marriage to Stephen Townesend, is often cited as the inspiration for the book's setting.[5] Burnett kept an extensive garden, including an impressive rose garden. However, it has been noted that besides the garden, Maytham Hall and Misselthwaite Manor are physically very different

Dickon: The animals tell me all their secrets. 
Mary: [pointing to the Robin] He wouldn't tell you my secret, would he? 
Dickon: About what, Miss Mary? 
Mary: A garden. I've stolen a garden. But it may already be dead, I don't know. 
Dickon: I'll know. 
Mary: Promise you won't tell anyone? 
Dickon: Promise. 
Mary: No one? 
Dickon: Not a soul. 

Bildungsroman

The term Bildungsroman denotes a novel of all-around self-development. Used generally, it encompasses a few similar genres: the Entwicklungsroman, a story of general growth rather than self-culture; the Erziehungsroman, which focuses on training and formal education; and the Kunstlerroman, about the development of an artist. (The Space Between, 13) Although Great Expectations, Aurora Leigh, and Waterland may fit one of these more specific categories, for the purposes of comparison, I shall discuss the Bildungsroman genre as a whole and how it applies to all three. My definition of Bildungsroman is a distilled version of the one offered by Marianne Hirsch in "The Novel of Formation as Genre":

1. A Bildungsroman is, most generally, the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order. The growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been described as both "an apprenticeship to life" and a "search for meaningful existence within society."

2. To spur the hero or heroine on to their journey, some form of loss or discontent must jar them at an early stage away from the home or family setting.

3. The process of maturity is long, arduous, and gradual, consisting of repeated clashes between the protagonist's needs and desires and the views and judgments enforced by an unbending social order.

4. Eventually, the spirit and values of the social order become manifest in the protagonist, who is then accommodated into society. The novel ends with an assessment by the protagonist of himself and his new place in that society.

Great Expectations is widely considered to be a direct descendant of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, the prototypical Bildungsroman. Aurora Leigh takes the genre and complicates it with problems of gender in Victorian society. Waterland reconsiders personal growth in a postmodern context, using narrative not for description, but rather as the vehicle for maturation.

1.rat (n.)
a)an animal that looks like a large mouse with a long tail
b)spoken someone who has been disloyal to you or deceived you

• But you promised to help us, you rat!

2.archetype (n.)a very typical example of a particular type of person or thing:

• He was the archetype of a scientist.
• lost/found

3.leading/supporting actor  主/配角

4.fertilize (v.)to make new animal or plant life develop

• She is fertilized.
• After the egg has been fertilized, it will hatch in about six weeks.

5.Without reservations : the travels of an independent woman

From Library Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steinbach took an extended leave from her newspaper job to travel around Europe in search of spontaneity. She started off in Paris, where she got romantically involved with a Japanese man and shopped; moved on to London, where she shopped some more; took a course at Oxford University; and headed to Italy, where she wandered through Milan, Venice, Rome, and the Tuscan countryside--and shopped a bit more. Chapters begin with postcards sent to Alice from Alice, each with a bit of advice or a lesson learned. Steinbach, divorced and with grown children, appears to be much at ease traveling alone, making new friends along the way. Her mental journey through the past and present and the reassessment of her life, rather than descriptions of the places visited or the people met, are at the heart of the narrative. This pleasant, slightly romantic, but unremarkable journey will find an audience in large public libraries. (Photographs not seen..
---Linda M. Kaufmann, Massachusetts Coll. of Liberal Arts Freel Lib., North Adams 
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

6.

• I fell. (我摔跤了。)
• I fell to the ground. (我摔到地上了。)

7.rajah (n.)the king or ruler of an Indian state 土財主

8.moor (n.)a large area of high land covered with grass, bushes, and HEATHER, with soil that is not good for growing crops

10.chol- = 化學鍵 bile : gall <cholate>

• cholera (n.)a serious disease affecting your stomach and INTESTINES (=the long tube that carries waste out of your body) that often causes death. It is caused by drinking water or eating food infected with bacteria.
• malaria (n.)a serious illness caused by being bitten by a MOSQUITO, usually in a hot country
• cholate (n.)a salt or ester of cholic acid
• cholestasis (n.)a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed; acholia

11.字辨：-semble

12.Medlock 英國一個普通的姓氏

13.bulb (n.) 
a)the glass part of an electric light, that the light shines from
= light bulb

b)a root shaped like a ball that grows into a flower or plant

14.raven (n.)a large bird with shiny black feathers

15.wick

=alive

• go wick/alive

16.common people 庶民

17.spore (n.)a cell like a seed that is produced by some plants such as mushrooms and can develop into a new plant

18.earth(英)

     land(美)

19.字群變化

depart (v.)to leave a place and start a trip

department (n.)one of the sections in a government, organization, or business that deals with one type of work

departure (n.)the time when an airplane, bus, or train leaves

• The airplane departed at noon.
• the Education Department
• the Department of Health
• the sales department
• a 10 o'clock departure

20.擬聲字群組記憶

cripple (n.)an offensive word for someone who is physically disabled, especially someone who is unable to walk

crooked (a.)not straight

creek (n.)a narrow stream

• crooked leg/back

21.古早用法：

lad (n.)a boy or a young man

lassie (n.)a girl or young woman

22.It must work on you! (這對你有效!)

23. 字首字根記憶法：-sign = mark

resign (v.)to state formally that you are leaving a job permanently
assign (v.)to give someone a job to do
consign (v.)to put someone or something somewhere, especially because you do not want to deal with them
ensign (n.)a flag on a ship that shows the country it comes from

• It now seems clear that she will resign her directorship immediately.
• Two senior officers were assigned to the investigation.
• He consigned his work suits to the back of the closet.

24.I'm learning your face by the heart.

25.awake, alive, open

• Notes on The Secret Garden (from syllabus)

1. Archetypes in Children’s Literature: child protagonist, lost & found, dream & adventures, defiance & authority, the weak & the minor, friendship & companionship, leadership & brotherhood/sisterhood, etc.
2. Children’s Literate is so predictable that the resolution always comes as the expectation.
3. Character:
a. Protagonist: Number 43, Mary Lennox, 10 years old (friendless, isolating, “quite contrary, minor, alone, lonesome, see the archetypes)
b. Antagonist: Mrs. Medlock (independent, self-sufficient women like housekeeper, governess are witchlike, “good” women/mothers die off the scenes.)
c. Supporting characters: the mother of Martha and Dickon, Lord Craven and Colin Craven as the contrast to Mary Lennox
4. Themes:
a. Feminism, imperialism, colonialism, orientalism
b. Friendship—trust and betrayal
c. Life & death, lost & found (of Eden), vegetation & growth, filthy dirt(y) garden & the mother nature, women/working-class bring salvations
d. Bildungsroman, adult woman model of growth (“The robin knows the time/key/way/door—she is fertilized, blooming, blossomed.)
5. Setting: gothic castle and attic (dark, mysterious, mystic, supernatural, ghostlike, magic, and spell)
6. Suggested reading (Alice Steinbach’s Without Reservations, p. 291-305)
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