Matilda Character Description

From the book Matilda By Roald Dahl

Matilda is kind and loving and everyone in her class loves her and wonders how she is so smart. She has an uncaring family that are so caught up in their own lives that they treat Matilda like a pest and as if she does not exist . She loves going to school with her best friend Lavender and loving, caring teacher Miss Honey . School is one of her favorite places because she can learn without getting told of for learning . Matilda absolutely hates Miss Trunchbull she is horrible , she locks people for up to a day in something called the chokee - A small pipe like thing with knives poking from the wall .Most of all though her favorite place is the local library ,since she was two years old she had been going to the library every day after everyone in the house had gone to either work or school . After about a month she had read every children's book in the library. Matilda has a dream to one day leave her two horrible parents and rude older brother to go live with Miss Honey.

By Liv