The Secret Garden blog post #3

Title: The Secret GardenThe 
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genre: Historical Fiction
Number of pages: 157/311

Report Section: The priests lead Mary to Mr. Craven's sitting room. After a long conversation Archibald Craven asks Mary if she wants anything at all and she responses that she would like to have a "bit of earth" for her gardening. Mr. Craven gets quite moved my this request because he remembered how much his wife loved gardening. Later, when Mary returns to the secret garden, she realizes that Dickon is not there. He has left for home. However, There is a note affixed to one of the rose bushes, on which Dickon has drawn a picture of a bird on its nest and a promise to return. That night a storm occurs in Misselthwaite. Mary wakes up and hears a baby crying again. She decides to go off in search of it's source. She finds a boy, as white as a statue, lying on the floor. That boy is Colin Craven, Archibald Craven's son. The boy is 10 years old since he was born shortly after Master's wife had died and the secret garden got locked. Colin says that he thinks that he will die before he reaches adulthood due to his illness. Colin says that he really wants to see the secret garden but Mary says that if everybody knows about it, it won't be a secret. Before Mary leaves they decide to keep their meeting in secret. After a week of rain Mary could finally go to the garden again. In the meanwhile, Colin and Mary begin to know each other and Mary wishes if she could bring Colin to the garden without anybody knowing that she did so. Finally Dickon is back and he meets up with Mary again. She tells him about Colin and the two children begin to think of a way for bringing Colin into the secret garden.

Response Section: For me these fifty pages that I have read so far weren't as interesting as the rest of the book was. Most of them were just talking about Colin and his illness. I predict that the rest of the people will soon realize the secret of the three children. I also predict that Colin will meet up with Dickon but I don't know what to expect after that. 

Passage Section: "When first we got in here." he said, "it seemed like everything was grey. Look around now and tell me if tha' doesn't see a difference."
This passage shows how everything was so simple before the two children began going in the garden more and more often. They were bringing happiness and joyess along with them. They were gardening, they were observing, they were jumping on their rope, they were doing many things. And this short passage shows the change Mary had made.