I Did Not Do It!
Matilda was also beginning to see red. She didn’t in the least mind being accused of having done something she had actually done. She could see the justice of that. It was, however, a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed. She had absolutely nothing to do with that beastly creature in the glass. By golly, she thought, that rotten Trunchbull isn’t going to pin this one on me!
“I did not do it!” she screamed.
“Oh yes, you did!” the Trunchbull roared back. “Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that! Your father was right to warn me about you!” The woman seemed to have lost control of herself completely. She was ranting like a maniac. “You are finished in this school, young lady!” she shouted. “You are finished everywhere. I shall personally see to it that you are put away in a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you! You will probably never see the light of day again!”
“I’m telling you I did not do it!” Matilda screamed. “I’ve never even seen a creature like that in my life!”
“You have put a…a…a crocodile in my drinking water!” the Trunchbull yelled back. “There is no worse crime in the world against a Headmistress! Now sit down and don’t say a word! Go on, sit down at once!”
“But I’m telling you…” Matilda shouted, refusing to sit down.
“I am telling you to shut up!” the Trunchbull roared. “If you don’t shut up at once and sit down I shall remove my belt and let you have it with the end that has the buckle!”
Slowly Matilda sat down. Oh, the rottenness of it all! The unfairness! How dare they expel her for something she hadn’t done!
Matilda felt herself getting angrier…and angrier…and angrier…so unbearably angry that something was bound to explode inside her very soon.
Extract from the book Matilda
By Roald Dahl
All Rights Reserved.
London: Puffin, 2001
Call Number: J English DAH
Extract submitted by Yasmin Muhammad Asslan
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Have you ever been wrongly accused by someone who is bigger and more powerful than you? Did you stand up for yourself?
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October 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Matilda is a great book!
December 31st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
No,i have never been wrongly accused by someone who is bigger and more powerful than me.But I will stand up for myself if anything like that were to happen to me.Even if I saw someone else being done like that,I will pretend to saw that, that person did not do it if I get to know what really happen from someone.Who happens to see everything but did not help the accused.I will always help people in need.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Matilda is really a smart girl! i wish i could be like her.
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May 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
so awful,her parents called her terrible.I do not want to be like that
September 23rd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
March 10th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
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