Talk:Matilda (novel)

message: i don't know how to do it, but i think that this particular section should be merged into the roald dahl section about children books themes. [asd[User:B cubed|b_cubed]] 05:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: similarities with BFG

message: Part of the Trunchbull's fright when the message is written on the board is that it contains the line 'I'll kill you like you killed me' (approximately. Is this relevant? Should it be put in the synopsis?169.229.121.94 22:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot note 

message: There is nothing ironic about the fact that the book focuses more on the importance of books, so I took that word out.
I couldn't think of a reason to include a massive list of all possible changes in the article, so I trimmed and rewrote the section. The old one was quite impressive, so I'm preserving it here to delight information freaks, such as most of us. --Kizor 02:38, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences in the film adaptation 

message: I can't find where her surname is mentioned in the book. Has someone perhaps confused her with the Harry Potter character? 91.105.35.31 19:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lavender Brown? 

message: It looks like the Miss Trunchbull article was recently changed to redirect here, which deleted about 8k of text.  If anyone is interested in adding bits of the former Miss Trunchbull to this article, I've copied the text below (with some modifications to the section headers).  Please feel free to incorporate this text, or perhaps undo the change of the Miss Trunchbull article to a redirect. Lisatwo 02:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lisatwo, the last "movie quote", as I remember, came from the mouth of Mr. Wormwood. I do hope you could improve it. Pokemon Buffy Titan (talk) 12:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miss Trunchbull redirected 

message: Aside from her niece Miss Honey, the Trunchbull is displeased by a great many things in her little world.  These include:
* Clever people.
* Stupid people.
* Small children.
* Large children.
* The childrens' parents.
* Girls with pigtails.
* Boys with long hair.
* Children too large to use as a shotput.
* The spelling-poem "Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI,/ Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs LTY", primarily on the grounds that all the women are married. 
* People who challenge her immense toughness.
* After her ordeal with Lavender's interference with her jug of water, newts.
* KIDS THAT HAVE DIRTY HANDS  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6001:E09D:B500:3988:638E:A52E:DF40 (talk) 02:28, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Dislikes

message: "You! Detention."
"Fresh meat!"
"Got you! Right in the neck!"
"Much too good for children!" 
"I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're small. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it."
::::::Lisatwo, the last "movie quote", as I remember, came from the mouth of Mr. Wormwood. I do hope you could improve it. Pokemon Buffy Titan (talk) 12:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes from the film only

message: Can I produce some character articles?--RoryReloaded (talk) 08:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character Articles 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Matilda.bookcover.amazon.jpg

message: Well this is silly.  It was seen fit to merge the substantial article on Miss Trunchbull with this one, and yet Matilda Wormood has a piddly little one of her own.  Where's the reasoning there? Not050 (talk) 18:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matilda Wormwood 

message: I was wondering if we could include the original plans for the book. I found it long ago, but I think the link is on roalddahl.com. I really don't remember, but I do remember that Roald rewrote the book so much the whole plotline changed. Pokemon Buffy Titan (talk) 12:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Plans Section 

message: Why is Hilaire Belloc's Matilda linked in the Further Reading section? This article is solely about Dahl's Matilda, and does not even mention Belloc's Matilda. Neither would make sense as being inspired by the other, either: the poem is about a girl who tells lies and then is disbelieved when she says her house is burning down (like Peter and the Wolf) and the novel is about an ordinary girl with superpowers who uses them for good. --82.46.18.225 (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I can only assume it's a leftover from an edit which was later removed. The entry on Hilaire Belloc does mention that Dahl was a fan, and it's entirely possible that Belloc's poem influenced the book - but if so, it should be made clear in the body of the article. I've removed the link until somebody can provide more context and a source. Ravenclaw (talk) 02:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Reading 

message: The scene with the cake and Bruce Bogtrotter bears similarities with the scene of Á Keenzy and the acting headmaster, especially with regard to the public punishment before an assembly and the cheering at the end. Perhaps it is an acknowledgement by Dahl for the inspiration of a young bookish child struggling to thrive in a non-bookish environment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AbrahamCat (talk • contribs) 12:23, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Aké: The Years of Childhood 49.180.18.151 (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crossing with Wole Soyinka's 'Aké' 

message: Please discuss the paragraph that was added and my removal of it here. Aside from the fact that's it in US English, the tense is wrong. I haven't corrected the grammar as I don't feel the inclusion affects the plot. NEDOCHAN (talk) 18:59, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional plot paragraph.