2. Topics:
You have to love yourself (Self esteem)
Maybe being alone is the sickness ( friendship and feeling alone)
You must value what you have, because maybe you won’ t have it
tomorrow ( Death and feeling alone)
You have to believe that you can do it ( magic and imagination)
Love can change people (love)
You have to value your life because there are people that are much
worst and they do want to live (poor people)
3. Dictionary Definitions:
Self Esteem: respect for oneself
Friendship: a person known well to another and regarded with
liking, affection, and loyalty; an intimate
Feeling alone : without anyone or anything else
Death: the permanent end of all functions of life in an organism
Imagination: the faculty or action of producing ideas
Magic: the art that, by use of spells, supposedly invokes supernatural
powers to influence events; sorcery
Love: an intense emotion of affection
Poor people: lacking financial or other means of subsistence
4. Examples of the Novel:
You have to love yourself: Mary doesn’ t like herself . One day, after talking with
Martha she starts loving herself and when she goes to the moors and starts eating
she feels better and she’ s heathier.
Maybe being alone is the sickness: Colin has been alone and sick all these years,
but when she meets Mary, he starts to be happier and then, when they go outside
with Dickon it is when he is cured.
You must value what you have, because maybe you won’ t have it tomorrow: Mary
didn’ t value what she had when she was in India and one day she lost everything
without being able to do nothing.
You have to believe that you can do it: Colin believes that he can walk and when
he tries he can. It’ s just that if you believe, you can.
Love can change people: Mary’ s uncle became an introverted person because of
the death of his love. The secret garden has been closed for that reason and love is
what I think links all the story.
You have to value your life because there are people that are so much worst and
they do want to live: Martha, for example, has to work very hard just for surviving
and having food for her family.