1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,480 Find all my work at MJMunoz.com 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,840 Prepare yourself for some off the cuff book talk as I tackle another middle grade book 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,840 chapter by chapter. 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:21,160 Secret Garden Chapter 6 doesn't quite follow up on the horror or mystery vibe that was 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:26,320 set at the end of Chapter 5 that like spiked and caught my attention and wanted me to keep 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,480 reading or got me to want to keep reading. 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:36,200 But Mary does explore the house because she wants to find out what's going on and it's 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,200 pretty interesting. 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,840 It's like simple, like nothing major happens except at the very end of the chapter she 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:47,600 finds something that Mrs. Medlock is not happy that she found and Medlock tells her you didn't 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:53,280 find anything, you didn't see anything, you didn't hear anything and if you know what's 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,640 good for you, you won't talk about it anymore and you'll stay in your room. 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,320 She also talks about her getting a governance, she threatens to box her ears which I specifically 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,560 remember from the movie because I had no idea at the time what that meant and I asked what's 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,840 that mean and I'm pretty sure my parents just said some form of spanking. 17 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,000 How do you spank someone's ears? 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,880 Anyway, so that's interesting. 19 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:19,360 I find it especially interesting that in one of the rooms, well two things that are interesting, 20 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:24,360 she finds a portrait of a little girl who kind of reminds her of herself. 21 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,640 She's got sharp curious eyes and she's a little stiff and she sees her in two different rooms. 22 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:35,080 At least one of the rooms has this cabinetry, I don't know if it's like a China cabinet 23 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,800 deal or a type of deal where there's a glass so you can look through it and see what's 24 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:39,800 in there. 25 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:46,240 Anyway, there's this cabinet that has all these little elephants in it. 26 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,480 She knows a lot about elephants because of being in India, she says or the narrator says, 27 00:01:51,480 --> 00:02:00,960 and I feel like she's seen these Indian elephant figures in India before and she assumes that 28 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:01,960 they got left behind. 29 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,120 She mentions that all her books were left behind in India so maybe everything else was 30 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,120 as well. 31 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,480 I kind of remember the movie there being a relic that she has and it matches something 32 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,200 that the character we'll meet later in the book has. 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,800 I don't know if that's legit or if they just rolled it all in to compress it or turning 34 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,560 a five hour long book into an hour and a half long movie or whatever. 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,320 I don't think it was more than 90 minutes probably. 36 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,720 It was the 90s, they didn't do super long kids movies. 37 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,960 But I don't know that that's going to happen here but I got all excited because I thought 38 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,720 oh, that's from the movie! 39 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,960 Maybe it's not, maybe it's exclusively from the movie, it's not going to have any significance 40 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,360 here but it was interesting. 41 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,600 She's complained about not having anything to play with before and now that she has these 42 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:53,400 glass, I think glass porcelain or whatever, beautiful elephant things to play with she's 43 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,480 all excited about it and figures that's something she should do and she does it until she gets 44 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,480 tired of it. 45 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Then she nicely arranges them all back and puts them in their place and then leaves. 46 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,240 But because the house is so big she gets turned around and that's when she finds that there's 47 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,400 a tapestry and when she touches the tapestry she finds there's a door behind it and she 48 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,920 goes to open the door and before she can do that Medlock gets to her and she's coming 49 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:22,960 jangling with all her keys to stop her from doing whatever she's doing, opening this door 50 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,800 and that's when she yells at her and tells her no you didn't see anything, you didn't 51 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,040 hear anything and away with you to your room. 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:39,600 She mentions that Craven has talked about getting her governess to look after her and she says 53 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,640 like she basically she implies, the implication is I'm going to talk to the master and get 54 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,080 this governess to look after you because you're too much trouble and anyway it's pretty interesting. 55 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:55,760 So again we're having a culture clash in a couple ways of she wasn't raised with authority, 56 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,880 respect, asking people permission for things, she was just raised with getting and taking 57 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,960 and doing whatever she wanted to and also being attended to and having her Aya being 58 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,000 always on top of her to the point where she was irritated with her and didn't want to 59 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,400 have her around anymore and now she's just so free to do whatever she wants that's having 60 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,000 unintended consequences for the people who are there and of course they're not thinking 61 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,440 about what it was like for her in India, they're just thinking about what it's like for anybody 62 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:29,680 there and they're operating as if she's an English born and bred kid in an English noble 63 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,120 house or wealthy house or whatever, manor house let's just say for argument's sake and 64 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:40,000 they don't really know how to handle her so it's causing a little bit of issue and I'm 65 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 sure that will continue so let's keep going through this book chapter by chapter and seeing 66 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,560 what happens and seeing how things develop with Mary and everybody else she's interacting 67 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,560 with. 68 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,880 Let me know what you think about this chapter and the book as a whole and check out the 69 00:04:53,880 --> 00:05:01,760 follow the link to find the playlist for me doing all of Secret Garden chapter by chapter 70 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:07,240 if I finish it, I dropped Maniac Magee there's no guarantee I won't drop Secret Garden but 71 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,040 you can at least follow the link and look for it and if you go to the real important 72 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,760 link which takes you to mjwins.com my website you can find everything I do there, I'll have 73 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:21,000 a Secret Garden page or like master post type thing that will have that says whether or 74 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,440 not it's completed or ongoing or incomplete or what and there's also should be one of 75 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,880 those for all the other books I've covered on fortress fiction chapter by chapter so 76 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:35,760 far so go check it out. 77 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:41,680 I hope you enjoyed that please remember to like share subscribe I invite you to comment 78 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,440 ask questions and share your thoughts with me it's always more fun when you're part of 79 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:51,680 the conversation until next time keep reading be well and do good things visit MJMunoz.com 80 00:05:51,680 --> 00:06:00,360 for more of my work and help me build up the fortress fiction.