the secret garden story by frances hodgson burnett

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But, just being himself, a young “animal charmer”, loving the nature, and teaches the cousins how to garden.

He is important for both of the children, not in a medical profession, or a well-read way that grown-ups usually would assume. However, Archibald’s transformation would come in the end of the book when he actually sees, for the first time, his son running like a real boy.ĭickon: The only one that does not change through the story, he does not need to. Perhaps keeping Colin safe inside, in the hands of “experts” made him feel less afraid of possibly losing him too. He probably projected his own insecurity of being a father without his beloved wife at his side by loving his son from a distance through objects and toys instead of showing feelings. Heartbroken after his wife died (when Colin was born). He does not know what is out there, but realizes after he takes a leap of faith exploring the garden together with Mary, that the true safe place was to be outdoors, slowly healing in the garden.Īrchibald Craven: Colin’s father. He is afraid to go out and leave his safe room where he has spent his whole life. Afraid of a future as a “cripple” like everyone had told him so many times. From not knowing anything else than feeling unwanted, she is transformed through having the new opportunity to care for small things in the hidden garden, and her first friend, the little robin redbreast, that lived there.Ĭolin Craven: A dramatic and insecure boy. She was replanted like a tree from a longterm negative environment, to fresh soil, where she after a while begins to grow new roots. Often bullied by the famous nursery rhyme “Mary quite contrary”. Mary Lennox: A lonely, sour, and most unwanted person.