Matilda Research Paper

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Instead of feeling down by her parents ignoring her, Matilda decided that she was going to make a difference in her life. She could have easily let her parents steal her self confidence; instead, she decided to stay strong as an individual. Matilda would do this by pulling pranks on her entire family. For example before her father woke up, she went into his bathroom to mix two substances into his hair gel solution. One would think that she found out how to do this because of a book she read at the library. Once she was done mixing it, she heard her mother and father start to get up, so she knew she had to get out of the bedroom quickly. She used her size to her advantage by staying low and making sure she did not make a sound. That same …show more content…

The family never expected Matilda of any wrongdoing. Since this worked so successfully, Matilda knew that she had to keep pulling pranks to try to get the family to love her. She had suffered way too much because of her parents not treating her with respect to stop pulling pranks. A couple days after, Matilda and her brother went with her dad to the dad’s work. Mr. Wormwood was wearing a hat because of the change in hair color done by Matilda. When Mr. Wormwood put his hat down for a second, Matilda had a genius idea. She put super-super glue around the edges of the hat. When her dad put it back on, he did not notice anything wrong. The family then met the mom at a really nice restaurant. The mom said, “Harry, take off your hat. It’s a nice restaurant.” When he tried to take the hat off, he realized he could not. This led to Mrs. Wormwood making a big scene by trying to forcibly take off her husband’s hat. She even knocked over a tray of food and made everyone in the restaurant really mad. Matilda’s genius plan of embarrassing her parents was a huge success. Instead of feeling defeated that she had the worst family in the world and getting down on herself, Matilda decided she wanted to get revenge on how

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