Vocab List

● An Indian Fakir
○ a Muslim religious person who lives solely on alms.
● Crocus

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● Snowdrops

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● Wuthering
○ Strong Wind
● Heather
○ Evergreen flowering plant
● Gorse

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● Broom

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● Ayah
○ a native maid or nursemaid employed by Europeans in India.
● “Engish garden”
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○ Cottage gardens are often referred to as "English cottage gardens."
● Columbine

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● Egg-eater

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● Gridley
○ Fine and good; promising and likely
● Despotic
○ a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it
cruelly or oppressively.
● Rajah
○ An Indian king or prince.
● Wick
○ Absorb or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

75 Givens
1. My name is Martha
2. I am a woman
3. I enter the show singing
a. I am singing after when I am on stage
i. People talk about my singing unlike they talk about full numbers. I think it
is safe to say that even outside of a musical I still sing and love music.
4. This show takes place in the late 1800s to early 1900s
5. I am in charge of taking care of Mary but I am not a lady in waiting (I am also not her
nurse)
6. I have all the responsibility of caring for this child without the title or extra perks of the
title of Lady in waiting)
7. I am in charge of Mary but she is not my only responsibility. I talk about how I have to get
back to my other chores a lot.
8. I let Mary run around by herself more than is normal for the time.
9. “Sturdy Yorkshire girl”
10. Yorkshire is an area of Northern England
11. The Manor is on a moor
a. A moor is a flat windy land. It is known to be harsh and brutal.

12. I am first seen with a skipping rope around my neck that I give to Mary
13. I have a strong Yorkshire accent and I make an effort to calm the accent down so that
Mary can better understand me.
14. I used to work in the scullery as a scullery maid.
15. A scullery maid is a dishwasher
a. “Female servant in a large house who did jobs such as washing dishes and
preparing vegetables”

b.
c. Most scullery maids woke up at dawn and worked for 14 hours every day
scrubbing dishes and floors
16. I did not like being a scullery maid and did not want to return.
17. I think I will be sent back if I mess up my work with Mary.
18. I can’t read or write
19. My mother makes us extra food whenever I go to the garden
a. She makes it for Colin and Mary as well as my brother Colin and I
20. I say to Miss Medlock “What can it hurt, Mum? He likes Mary. Let her have a go at it”
a. This is a brave thing for me to do. I am opposing the words of my superior.
21. I won’t tell Mary when she brings Colin to the garden
 22. I am overcome seeing Colin outside
a. I know this boy and I have sympathy for him and it is nice to see him anywhere
that isn’t in his dark bedroom
23. I think that Colin looks like his mom and it brings me starring emotions
24. I think that house was better when Lily (Colin’s mom) was alive
25. I believe in charms and spells
a. Mary is doing magic and Colin asks if I believe in such things and I say yes
26. I also believe in the big good thing
a. I call it the big good thing or whatever you want to call it but I mean god or
anything other religions think of as God
27. I help with the spell that supposedly makes Colin well again
28. I give Mary all credit for making Colin Better
a. This is all part of me giving her credit for making the entire house better later in
the show.
29. I think that Mary’s uncle likes her
a. I tell her that her ulcer bought her books and clothes
b. I also strongly say that I think her uncle likes her
30. I think that Mary had nothing to do with her uncle leaving
31. Martha has never seen a person of color but is interested
a. She says to Mary that she thought she would be “brown” coming from India and
was interested to see a person of color
i. Mary is not brown and gets very offended when I say that.
“Only the natives are colored”

Dickon
32. My Brothers name is Dickon
33. He likes to play in the Moors by the Manor
34. He has made friends with a Pony, some birds, and some sheep.
a. He is an animal lover
35. I trust Dickon.
a. I let Mary play with him often and it is my responsibility to keep her safe.
b. I even encourage Mary to play with him and seek him out in the gardens.

Mary Lennox
36. Mary Lennox is the girl I care for.
37. Mary is 10
38. She is a little girl
39. She was raised in India
40. Her parents did not care for her. She was fully cared for by her ayah.
a. And Ayah is just a live-in nanny
41. Mary said that she did not love her mother
a. She is just a pretty thing that Mary likes to look at from afar.
42. Her parents did not care about Mary and she was often just sent way out of sight.
43. Mary’s parents and Ayah died of cholera
 a. Cholera was going threw one of its worst influxes from 1865 to 1917
b. There was not a good treatment for cholera at that time
i. They treated it with bed rest and peppermint oil.
ii. You can contract cholera through contact with an infected person’s feces
or infected water.
44. Mary is found all alone in a house full of dead people.
45. No one could figure out why she did not die.
46. The people who found her did not let her bring anything out of the “infected” house
before they burned the house to the ground.
47. She was shipped (all alone) from India to England to live with her uncle.
48. She did not cry this entire time.

Archibald Craven
49. Archibald Craven is the master of the manner.
50. He is Mary's uncle
51. He is Colin’s Father
52. He is terrified of hurting/losing Colin
53. He is a hunchback
a. Other than that he is a healthy person.
54. His wife Lily died
55. This destroyed him and he is still heaving morning for her to this day
56. He is the master of the house
a. That means that he is the boss of everything.
57. He locks up the garden because it brings him many negative emotions

Lily Craven
58. Lily is Colin’s Mother
59. Lily is the wife of Archibald
60. She is Mary’s Aunt
61. She is known for her love of nature/her garden
62. She is known for her joy and love of everything
63. He fell out of a tree in her beloved garden
64. This makes her go into early childbirth which eventually kills her
a. She dies right after Colon is born.
65. She appears as a ghost in this show.
66. The house lost all of its joy and happiness when she died.
67. She loves the garden
68. She died in childbirth when she went into early labor after falling out of a tree in her
garden
69. She is in this show as a ghost
Colin Craven
70. Colin is Mary’s cousin
71. He cries all day every day
72. It is not specifically said what he is sick of but it does often say that he is sick.
 73. I have a fondness for Colin
74. I think Colin looks like his mother
75. The doctor says that he is going to have a hunch back if he moves too much
a. That is why he doesn’t walk
76. Mary finds him and convinces him to go into the garden where he is almost completely
healed
a. Mary teaches Colin to walk
Mrs. Medlock
77. She is the head housekeeper for the manor
a. This means that she is my boss
78. She thinks that Marnner is no place for a child
79. She is one of the people who thinks that Mary should be sent to the Boarding school
Ben Weatherstaff
80. He is the gardener for the Maner
81. He is the one who tells Mary about the secret garden and the key
Dr.Craven
82. He is the doctor who cares for Colin.
83. He is Archebled brother
84. He was also in Love with Lily
85. He quit his full-time job to be Colin’s doctor when Lily died
86. He is also one of the people pushing for Mary to be sent away.
87. He thinks that Mary is a risk to Colin’s health
The Robin
88. The robin is just a bird but he is the one that gives Mary the key to the harden. He also
shows Mary where the door to the garden is.

Overriding need
● Beforme getting to know Mary my overriding need is to do my work well.
● After getting to know Mary it’s to care for her
○ There is also part of me that wants her to keep making the house better
● During my song it to give Mary the courage to keep fighting
○ It is also to comfort Mary

Events of play before the song

There is a large party being thrown in India by Mary’s parents. Everyone at the party
contracts cholera and dies, Mary somehow doesn't get cholera so she doesn’t get sick. She is
found alive by Lieutenant Write and Shaw. Write and Shaw takes her and they burn the house
down with all her belongings (except a framed picture we don’t know who is in it yet) to keep the
contamination contained.
We cut to the Library at Misselthwaite Manor where Archibald (Mary’s uncle) and his
brother (Dr.Neville Craven) and the housekeeper (Mrs. Medloc) are deciding if they should let
Mary (Rose, her mom was Archibald’s dead wife’s sister so he is her closest living relative)
come live at the Manor or send her to a boarding school. Archibald decides to let Mary stay to
mourn her loss and then they will decide what to do with her.
Mary is taking this all like a champ. Every person she means says she is showing no
emotions about everyone she knows dying and being moved across the world.
Mary heard crying in the house. Archibald sings about how lost he is without his wife Lily
Mary’s sitting room is the first scene where I (Martha) come in. I wake Martha up and
bring her breakfast. And this is just an introduction scene for the two of us. I give her my jump
rope so she has something to do while I work all day.
Scene Two, Archible is in the ballroom watching the ghost of Lily dance. (it's clear from
the text if he can actually see the ghosts or is just imagining them that's kind of up to the actors
and audience.) In this song, we see how Lily and Archibald fell in love. Lily’s ghost disappears
when Mary enters the ballroom. We find out that the picture Mary brought with her from India is
a picture of Lily. They talk about what happens to people when they die.
The next few scenes are just Mary going around finding parts of the grounds and
meeting different people. She meets My brother Dickon, she makes friends with a bluebird and
she means Ben the gardener.

Lyrics of song
My Thoughts
Beats of the song
Wants

This is a transition from the lines to the song

What you've got to do is
Finish what you have begun,
I am telling her that I am not sure about how to stay strong but that she has to find the strength
I don't know just how,
Telling her to not give up
But it's not over 'til you've won!

(The music makes a big shift here.) This is where I start to use metaphors to explain to this little
girl what she has to do in ways that she will understand. (also storms often symbolize back
things to come I think it is interesting that I am telling her that bad things are coming to her but
she just has to get through it even when the worst of the storm comes by.)
When you see the storm is coming,
This is the worst part of the storm
See the lightning part the skies,
You can not run away from your problems (we leave the metaphors for a moment)
It's too late to run-
You can be scared
There's terror in your eyes!
I am here for you. I can help you.
What you do then is remember
This old thing you heard me say:
Back to the metaphor
"It's the storm, not you,
That's bound to blow away."

Stay strong
Hold on,
Hold on to someone standing by.
Hold on.
Sometimes you don’t know why bad things are happening but you have to stay strong anyway
Don't even ask how long or why!
Don’t let people tell you you are wrong just because they think they are better than you
Child, hold on to what you know is true,
Don’t give up halfway through the fight
Hold on 'til you get through.
Child, oh child!
Hold on!

Back to the heavy metaphors about being afraid and standing strong nun the less.
When you feel your heart is poundin',
The devil could be one of the things here. A metaphor for the bad of the word, or the bad that is
the doctor.
Fear a devil's at your door.
You can not hide from all your fears
There's no place to hide-
You're frozen to the floor!
You might not want to face these things but you still have to
What you do then is you force yourself
To wake up, and you say:
"It's this dream, not me,
that's bound to go away."

The night is just another way of saying the bad things will go away
Hold on,
Hold on, the night will soon be by.
Sometimes the first thing you try doesn’t work and you have to try again.
Hold on,
Until there's nothing left to try.
Angles are the opposite of the devil talked about earlier. Saying there is always good after the
bad if you can get through the bad. It is also saying that there are people out there who want to
help you.
Child, hold on, There's angels on their way!
Hold on and hear them say,
"Child, oh child!"

This is another shift in the music. (This to me says that the last thing I was doing where not
helping Mary so I have to try something else.)
And it doesn't even matter
If the danger and the doom
I am saying that bad things don’t always just come from where and when you are expecting
them they can come from anywhere and you have to be ready to fight them all.
Come from up above or down below,
Or just come flying
At you from across the room!

I think the “man” I am talking about is two men. It’s Archebled and the Doctor.
When you see a man who's raging,
Archebled has an immense fear of his child and making him worse.
And he's jealous and he fears
The walls are the medical care given to Colin.
That you've walked through walls
He's hid behind for years.
Another incense of me telling Mary that she has to keep going even when it is hard
What you do then is you tell yourself to wait it out
And say it's this day, not me,
That's bound to go away.

I am just reinforcing the last thought to finally drive in that plot.

Child, oh hold on.
It's this day, not you,
That's bound to go away!

Work Cited
● https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/scullery-maid#:~:text=Meaning%20
of%20scullery%20maid%20in%20English&text=in%20the%20past%2C%20a%20female
,maid%20to%20a%20glittering%20princess.
● https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cholera
● https://www.gorgeouscottages.com/blog/north-york-moors-guide
● https://study.com/academy/lesson/devil-origin-role-symbolism.html