Bertie Carvel performing "The Hammer"
As a chorus of children boast about being their parents' "miracles", the ballroom dancing obsessed Mrs Wormwood visits the hospital, oblivious to the fact that she is nine months pregnant. She then gives birth to a baby girl named Matilda. The doctor thinks Matilda is the most beautiful child he has ever seen but Mrs Wormwood is only worried about a dancing contest she has missed; Mr Wormwood, a used-car salesman and television addict, hoping for a boy, dismisses the child as ugly and is unable and unwilling to accept her as a girl, ("Miracle").
Five years later, Matilda Wormwood, an avid reader, lives unhappily with her parents and her older brother, Michael. The Wormwoods are oblivious…show more content… The children begin to spell every word correct, so Miss Trunchbull invents a made up word in order to punish Lavender. When she gets the word wrong, and as Miss Trunchbull is taking Lavender to The Chokey, her classmates deliberately misspell simple words, telling Miss Trunchbull she cannot send them all to The Chokey. Unswayed, Miss Trunchbull reveals that she had built many more Chokeys. As she scolds the children, Matilda uses her powers to write on the blackboard and convinces Miss Trunchbull that it is the ghost of Magnus, demanding that she give his daughter back her house or that he will get her like she got him. Miss Trunchbull, being very superstitious, runs from the school, never to return or be heard from again, as the children celebrate their freedom, ("Revolting Children").
At the library, Miss Honey and Mrs. Phelps relay the aftermath of the events. A few days after Miss Trunchbull ran away, the will of Miss Honey's parents had been found; they left all their money and their house to her. In addition to her teaching duties, Miss Honey becomes the new headmistress of the school, making it a better place for the children to learn. We also learn that Matilda is unable to use her powers again because she has no reason to. Yet, Miss Honey is sad that a child who has helped others is still stuck in an unloving
