Matilda (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Punishment Box]]: the sadistic headmistress is fond of [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|(among other things)]] using the "Chokey," a closet lined with spikes, thus like an iron maiden in which there is just barely enough room to stand.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This is how the Trunchbull gets away with such shocking cruelty to the students. Any parent who heard their kid tell them the principal threw them in a closed chamber with broken glass and nails jutting out of the walls for several hours would naturally assume their kid was lying. Not to mention her regular use of schoolchildren for practice throwing the hammer.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The Trunchbull.

* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]: It's not in evidence, anyway, despite all the child abuse going on.