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[https://redtri.com/classic-kids-books-with-racist-stereotypes/slide/2 this site] address specific reason why The Secret Garden is racist that is when Mary meets a worker young lady named Martha, who figured Mary would be black (coming from India what not) and Mary answers to Martha by saying, "blacks are not people."
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[[File:The-Secret-Garden.jpg|thumb|The Secret Garden book cover]]
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The Secret Garden is written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett]. The book published in 1911 become one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Eventhough The Secret Garden is categorized as children's literature, it was originally serialized in a magazine for adults before being published as a whole story book in 1911.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/05/secret-garden-frances-hodgson-burnett</ref> It was originally marketed for the young and adult readers.  
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==Plot==
 
==Plot==
The epic starts when nine-year-old Mary Lennox loses her folks to cholera. Mary is a ruined and irritable kid living in India (not any more explicit area is given) when her house is hit with the disease. Mary's folks and her Ayah (nursery servant) pass on, different workers desert the house, and the stranded Mary is found absolutely alone by two warriors who come in to check whether anybody has been left alive.  
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An Orphan named Mary is sent to live with her uncle Archibald Craven in England when her parents die during a cholera epidemic in India. When she is left to explore a gothic mansion, she discovers a mysterious walled garden that has been locked for over a decade. Mr. Craven, her uncle, is largely absent and his household is run by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock, who picks up Mary in London and conveys her to her new home. With the help of a robin and a good-natured Yorkshire boy, she uncovers why the garden has been locked away, and how to bring it—and herself—back to life.<ref>https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/74112/8-lovely-facts-about-secret-garden</ref>
  
After a concise stay with a pastor's family (the offspring of the family false her obstinate, furious manner by naming her "Courtesan Mary, very opposite,") she is shipped off her uncle's Yorkshire nation house. Mr. Cowardly, her uncle, is generally missing and his family is controlled by his maid, Mrs. Medlock, who gets Mary in London and passes on her to her new home.  
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==Controversy==
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This book is racist in some parts, especially to Indians. Indians are othered to an extreme degree, from beginning to end. Indians are referred to as "natives" and "blacks," and Mary is angry and insulted when she's compared to them.<ref>https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/the-secret-garden</ref> In one scene, when Martha tells Mary that she’d expected her to be an Indian child, she was furious. Taken from its original book, page 34, below is the controversial conversation;
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<blockquote>''Mary sat up in bed furious.''
  
Mrs. Medlock doesn't put up with idiots readily; she anticipates that Mary should dress herself and entertain herself all alone (not entirely trustworthy but rather I went with it), something Mary is unused to. Martha, a youthful Yorkshire house cleaner, serves Mary a piece, prattling and getting Mary's hesitant interest.
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''“What!” she said. “What! You thought I was a native. You—you daughter of a pig!”''
  
From the start Mary is irate at being treated in such a manner; she is presumptuous and anticipates that everybody should grovel to her (we're told more than once that her Indian workers did her offering with energetic willingness).
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''Martha stared and looked hot.''
  
As the days go on, however, Mary acknowledges she'll need to figure out how to occupy her experience all alone. Martha gives her a bounce rope urges her to search out the nurseries; Mary does, and finds the area of the "mystery garden" Martha has referenced to her.  
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''“Who are you callin’ names?” she said. “You needn’t be so vexed. That’s not th’ way for a young lady to talk. I’ve nothin’ against th’ blacks. When you read about ’em in tracts they’re always very religious. You always read as a black’s a man an’ a brother. I’ve never seen a black an’ I was fair pleased to think I was goin’ to see one close. When I come in to light your fire this mornin’ I crep’ up to your bed an’ pulled th’ cover back careful to look at you. An’ there you was,” disappointedly, “no more black than me—for all you’re so yeller.”''
  
The nursery has been bolted for 10 years, Mary learns—since the time Mr. Fearful's late spouse was gravely harmed when she tumbled off one of the nursery's trees. At the point when she accordingly passed on, Mr. Timid couldn't bear the spot, when his significant other's #1 spot. He bolted the walled garden and covered the key. Nobody realizes where it's covered. Significantly more bafflingly, the nursery seems to have no entryway.
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''Mary did not even try to control her rage and humiliation.''
  
Mary gets familiar with a small bunch of individuals individually, and progressively her hover of associates, and not just that, of individuals she enjoys, broadens. Martha is the principal individual Mary becomes marginally attached to, at that point Ben Weatherstaff, an irritable planter, and a robin he enjoys. After that Deacon, Martha's twelve-year-old sibling, who can in a real sense enchant winged creatures out of trees.
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''“You thought I was a native! You dared! You don’t know anything about natives! They are not people—they’re servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!”''<ref>https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Secret_Garden.djvu/48</ref><ref>https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-c-reviews/c-minus-reviews/review-the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/</ref></blockquote>
  
At some point, the robin drives Mary to dive around in the dirt at a specific spot, and she finds the way in to the nursery. Later she finds the entryway, covered up under a thick bunch of ivy. She contemplates whether the nursery is genuinely as dead as it has all the earmarks of being, and starts to weed it, keeping her ownership of the way to herself. The nursery is an illegal spot, all things considered.
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Mary's companion Deacon is unquestionably an admired figure, now and again to an eye-moving degree. He pulls in creatures and can make any plant flourish. He has subdued a crow and two squirrels (each of the three alternate sitting on his shoulders), a fox offspring and a sheep. He can even address the robin in its own upbeat language. Mary gives Deacon access on her mystery, and he starts to work in the nursery with her.
 
 
 
Working in the nursery and skipping with the hop rope fortifies Mary's muscles. While once she had a pallid appearance and a squeezed articulation and pecked at her food, presently her craving develops, her skin takes on a solid gleam, her eyes and her cheeks light up. She loses her morose attitude and the individuals she loves come to like her consequently.
 
 
 
On an especially blustery night, Mary hears an infantile cry in a far off piece of the house. Martha discloses to Mary that she has confused the crying of the breeze with a human sound. On another event, while investigating the house, Mary hears another such cry and approaches the room it starts from. In any case, Mrs. Medlock gets her and restricts her from infringing on that part of the house.
 
 
 
Who is the kid crying in the night? Can Mary and Deacon rejuvenate that person and great wellbeing, much as the nursery has carried Mary to both? What's more, what will happen when Mr. Cowardly gets back home and finds the mystery garden in blossom?<ref>https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-c-reviews/c-minus-reviews/review-the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/</ref>
 
 
 
==Controversy==
 
There's no denying the way that [https://redtri.com/classic-kids-books-with-racist-stereotypes/slide/3 Frances Hodgson Burnett's] mid twentieth century novel about an English young lady (Mary) who is compelled to move back to her green and beautiful old neighborhood after her folks pass on in India, is brimming with some great good exercises (think: thinking about others as they have thought about you). A portion of the exchange, nonetheless, may wrinkle your quills. Model: Mary meets a worker young lady named Martha, who figured Mary would be dark (coming from India what not). Cliché, yes. In any case, pause—it deteriorates. Mary answers to Martha by saying, "blacks are not individuals." Double wow!
 
  
  
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The Secret Garden book cover

The Secret Garden is written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The book published in 1911 become one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Eventhough The Secret Garden is categorized as children's literature, it was originally serialized in a magazine for adults before being published as a whole story book in 1911.[1] It was originally marketed for the young and adult readers.

Plot

An Orphan named Mary is sent to live with her uncle Archibald Craven in England when her parents die during a cholera epidemic in India. When she is left to explore a gothic mansion, she discovers a mysterious walled garden that has been locked for over a decade. Mr. Craven, her uncle, is largely absent and his household is run by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock, who picks up Mary in London and conveys her to her new home. With the help of a robin and a good-natured Yorkshire boy, she uncovers why the garden has been locked away, and how to bring it—and herself—back to life.[2]

Controversy

This book is racist in some parts, especially to Indians. Indians are othered to an extreme degree, from beginning to end. Indians are referred to as "natives" and "blacks," and Mary is angry and insulted when she's compared to them.[3] In one scene, when Martha tells Mary that she’d expected her to be an Indian child, she was furious. Taken from its original book, page 34, below is the controversial conversation;

Mary sat up in bed furious.

“What!” she said. “What! You thought I was a native. You—you daughter of a pig!”

Martha stared and looked hot.

“Who are you callin’ names?” she said. “You needn’t be so vexed. That’s not th’ way for a young lady to talk. I’ve nothin’ against th’ blacks. When you read about ’em in tracts they’re always very religious. You always read as a black’s a man an’ a brother. I’ve never seen a black an’ I was fair pleased to think I was goin’ to see one close. When I come in to light your fire this mornin’ I crep’ up to your bed an’ pulled th’ cover back careful to look at you. An’ there you was,” disappointedly, “no more black than me—for all you’re so yeller.”

Mary did not even try to control her rage and humiliation.

“You thought I was a native! You dared! You don’t know anything about natives! They are not people—they’re servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!”[4][5]

References