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This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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Find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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Prepare yourself for some off the cuff book talk as I tackle another middle grade book

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chapter by chapter.

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This is MJ bringing you my chapter by chapter review of Secret Garden chapter 3 across the

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moor and this is a transitional chapter where, believe it or not, Mary Lennox goes across

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the moor with Mrs. Medlock who's, I believe she's the chief maid or chief, how do you

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call that, housekeeper of Uncle Archibald Craven's house.

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And she has an interesting way about her and based on the conflict that she and Mary had

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with each other in the last chapter, a little bit of conflict, not a ton, she is regarding

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her with not a ton of favor.

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She's not being horrible to her, but she kind of is, I don't know, not interested in catering

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to the child's, I don't know, taciturn nature or I'm not exactly sure how to say that, but

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basically she kind of, Mary at one point asks her, you know, what is a war?

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Is it a notion?

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Is it this?

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Is it that?

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And she says, you're going to find out on your own.

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And she isn't unkind in saying that.

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She's just being matter of fact, like look kid, you're going to figure this out on your

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own, don't worry.

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And then she goes ahead and explains to her after they've experienced it, once they've

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gotten to it after this long stretch of miles of riding a carriage, a smart carriage, that

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you know, this is what it is.

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And then Mary gets to see the big house and it's nighttime when she's arriving.

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And as she gets there, she gets more and more uncomfortable with it and likes it less and

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less.

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And we hear that it's kind of a desolate area.

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It's just a lot of Heather and Grouse and I don't know, some other game bird of some

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sort and there's not really much else going on there on the land.

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And Mary isn't particularly interested in it.

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And then when she reaches the servants, well, she's saying to herself, I don't like it.

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I don't like it.

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And then when she actually reaches the home and is let inside, she's again, not catered

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to or anything.

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I mean, she kind of is.

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There's an interesting contrast or an interesting idea that's brought forth that she expects

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everybody to go ahead and wait on her because that's what everybody did in India.

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And she doesn't know to expect anything different.

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So Midlock had earlier taken her stuff for her and put it in the carriage and she let

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her do it.

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She didn't offer help or anything like that.

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And then we have actual servants at the manor house that do take her belongings for her

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and put them up as they should.

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That's their job.

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That's their function.

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And she has no issue with that.

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But like nobody makes a fuss over her.

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She overhears that her uncle doesn't want to see her and wants her to be kept away from

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him basically.

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So it sounds like to the audience, Mary's going into another situation with another

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aloof relative who wants nothing to do with her.

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And that doesn't sound very nice.

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And that has to be hurtful to a child, I would think.

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And that's basically the situation that she's going into.

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It's pretty sad to think that that's what's going on, but you can't really stop that from

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being the reality.

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So that's just what she's going to have to deal with.

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And it's funny, the author put in the last chapter that she was called Mary Mary quite

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contrary and it says that when she got to the house, she was about as contrary as she

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could possibly be.

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So she is not going to be a happy camper.

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And we're going to have to see how she gets over that because I, well, you know, I'm vaguely

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food with the story and I know that changes, so it'll be interesting to see how that unfolds

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and how that changes for her because right now she's not happy and she's kind of in a

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place where she doesn't have a good understanding of what is expected of her and what she can

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expect from these people around her.

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And it'll be interesting to see how that blossoms and blooms and how things progress as we go

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through the rest of the book.

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So I'm still enjoying this.

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It's interesting.

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I'm not, this wasn't like a super compelling chapter, but it was interesting to hear the

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description of like how spooky and how like forlorn the road to the manor house was.

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And then just being there in the night and there's no welcome, there's no warmth.

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It's I don't know.

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It's interesting because it like is putting Mary in this place where she's alienated.

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She's not surrounded by a bunch of kids.

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I found out by the way that it's, let me see, I put it in my notes.

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It was Mrs. Crawford had taken care of her and she had the kids, the five kids.

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One of them was named Basil.

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He was the one that made up Mary, Mary, quite contrary, or one of the kids of that family.

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And he made fun of her for not knowing where her home was or where her uncle lived and

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all that stuff, which is in England.

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And oh yeah, I noticed too the train conductor, I think, and Medlock have, not a cockney accent,

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a Hertfordshire, a Yorkshire accent.

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That's where they have Yorkshire accent.

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So I guess that's the area they're in.

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So that's kind of interesting detail.

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If you know England or if you know these kinds of books that are set in these places like

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Pride and Prejudice and such, you're more familiar with that.

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And yeah, it's just kind of texturing the setting.

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So we have a good picture of the setting and of how much unhappy, how much more unhappy

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Mary is in the setting.

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And again, we'll have to see what happens.

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So I'm interested, I'm genuinely engaged and I want to know what exactly happens to

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this girl and how she gets transformed and how the place gets transformed around her

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as well.

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So let me know what you thought about this chapter.

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I hope you enjoyed that.

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