Comparison Of The Key Passage In Catherine's 'Secret Garden'

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Key Passage “ The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy ” (proverbs). This quote really relates back to the Secret Garden and the key passage i have chosen. The key passage i have chosen is in chapter one and is the last paragraph on page 4 which continues on to page 5. In the book up to this paragraph Burnett explains where this young girl Mary comes from and how beautiful her mother is and how successful her father is but Mary is neither of those things. She is a young child that is not as pretty as her mother and stuck in her room because her parents hired help to take care of Mary’s every need. Mary’s body does not heal because there is no play, her mind does not heal because she does not have much laughter, and her spirit does not heal because she has no joy. All of these things apply to your wellness as a whole and this book shows a lot of it. …show more content…

At the beginning of page 4 Mary finds her dining hall empty but with a full course meal just left there, Mary eats the meal because she was hungry then falls asleep for hours. In the passage i have chosen for the key is right after she wake up for her long sleep. The house is quiet and everyone has either left or died from the cholera outbreak. The pages 4 and 5 really set the book up to show how poor Mary’s physical wellness truly is. Up until this part of the book she has someone to do everything for her. By not doing anything for herself ever she expects someone to do things for her which causes her to be mean and ungrateful and it causes her to have no physical wellness because she does not know

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