61 pages 2 hours read

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1910

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Essay Topics

1.

Do you like Mary or not? What do you like or dislike about her? Do you like her better at the end of the story or the beginning? Why?

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Do you think Mary being a girl is important to the story? How might the story have been different if she had been a boy?

3.

Does the author treat boys and girls differently in the story? Give examples.