The Secret Garden

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Science and New Thought theories.

First of all, one can notice that adult figures are nearly absent in this book. The main characters are Mary Lennox, her cousin Colin Craven and Dickon Sowerby. The way these characters are described expresses the narrator’s opinion about specific subjects. Indeed, Mary is described as a sickly, unsightly, foultempered little girl who loves no one and whom no one loves: “she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen” (p.1). She has similarities with her cousin Colin as they are both sick, tyrannical and spoiled. Through these characters and their behaviors, the narrator renders a judgement on education. As a matter of fact, the omniscient narrator makes it clear that Mary is only so awful because of the way she was raised in India (absent parents and she had everything she wanted). Thus the reader has access to the loneliness and displacement that Mary feels but she is not able to express it, as it is proved by this quotation: ...

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