The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden is a narrative about children moving from a state of sickness to health. Using insights from postcolonial theory and theories of the social construction of gender, analyze how “health” might be connected to ideologies of gender, race, or class? Provide evidence from the readings and the novel to build an argument and support your claims. (For examples: are there places in the novel where the appearance of health/the act of being healthy/the means by which one becomes healthy are applied differently?