The Secret Garden | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

India - The English thought themselves superior in every way to people from this place and believed even their climate to be superior to the hot, fertile tropics.

Misselthwaite Manor - This is a grand and gloomy house that is six hundred years old. It has almost one hundred rooms and is at the edge of a moor.

The Moor - This is an expanse of land many miles across, covered with low bushes, heather, gorse and moss.

The Secret Garden - The main character is led to the key and the...
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