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A lot of emotions filled my heart when I watched the movie Matilda. First, I feel pity because you can see the faces of Matilda’s parents that they don’t want a daughter, seeing her also that she desperately want to have a book but her parents won’t give her a book and for having a very cruel parent. Second, I was amazed when I saw Matilda fix and feed herself independently, finished a lot of magazines and books in their house and in the public library, having a good sense of fashion at a very young age and having a high Intelligent Quotient. There are five chief characters. They are Matilda, genius child; Matilda's parents, who are selfish; Miss Trunchbull, a selfish principle; Miss Honey, a kind and caring teacher who later becomes Matilda's foster-mother; and Miss Phelps, librarian.
Matilda is an unusual child. She begins reading newspapers when she is one year old. Matilda's parents do not like her study habits and think that she should be interested in other things like watching TV and doing some playing stuff. It becomes obvious they do not like her. So, Matilda begins to do some naughty tricks to get their attention. See, for example, puts super glue in her dad's hat brim which he cannot get off. Another time, Matilda borrows a parrot and stuffs it up the chimney where it sounds like a ghost which makes everyone in the family run out of the house. She learns to pick up things by thinking about them without moving. At one point Matilda picked up a piece of chalk and wrote on the chalkboard at school which frightened Miss Trunchbull, a mean selfish principal
I noticed that the movie is for parents for them to appreciate, encourage and help their children to be a good person and also for the parents that they must be a good role model to their children.
I was glad when Matilda got even with Miss Trunchbull and her parents by naughty tricks. Sometimes, though, these acts were selfish. Reasonably, it was easy to tell the Matilda's parents were not

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