Matilda1996

[Matilda and Miss Honey walk past the Trunchbull's house]

Miss Honey:
That's where Ms. Trunchbull lives.

Matilda:
Why is there a swing?

Miss Honey:
A girl I know used to live in that house. [cut to a series of flashbacks] Her life was good and happy. When she was just two years old, her mother died. Her father was a doctor, and he needed someone to look after things at home. So he invited the mother's stepsister to come and live with him. But the girl's aunt was a mean person, who treated the girl very badly.

Matilda:
The Trunchbull.

Miss Honey:
Yes. And worst of all, when the girl was five, her father died.

Matilda:
How did her father die?

Miss Honey:
The police decided he killed himself.

Matilda:
Why would he do such a thing?

Miss Honey:
No one knows. [cut back to present] The end is happier. She found a small cottage. She rented it from this lovely rhubarb farmer for just $50 a month, and she covered it in honeysuckle, and she planted hundreds of wildflowers, and she moved out of her wicked aunt's house, and she finally got her freedom.