Roald Dahl Matilda Children's Book Narration
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
South African (General)Transcript
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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers, even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine. They still think that he or she is wonderful. Some parents go further. They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities off genius. Well, there's nothing wrong with all this. It's the way of the world. It's only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring that we start shouting, Bring as a base and we're going to be sick Occasionally when comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest it all in their Children. And these, of course, are far worse than the doting ones. Mr and Mrs Wormwood would two such parents. They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular, is nothing more than a scab. A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away. Mr and Mrs Wormwood look forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away, preferably to the next county or even further than that. It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary Children as though there were scabs and bunions. But it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extraordinary. And by that I mean sensitive and brilliant. Matilda was both of these things, but above all she was brilliant. Her mind was so nimble, and she was so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half witted of parents. Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter. To tell the truth, I doubt they would have noticed even if she had crawled into the house with a broken leg.