I've always imagined Dickon for many reasons
but some people think Colin
Although Colin is her cousin isn't that the time period where people still married there cousins ?
I wondering if anyone knew or had read the book and it says ?
Maybe it was ment to be :)
In the book Dickon's eventual death is alluded to; in the 1987 film it is clearly mentioned. So, if the choice is between these two, Colin is the winner. However, I really don't see anything more than a very close, brother-sister type relationship for them in the future. And why is it important, anyway? The film, as well as the book, is not about the romance between the children anyway.
shareDickon doesn't die in the book, nor do I remember it being alluded to. And what happens in the 1987 film version is not canon. It doesn't count as an official part of the story. It's okay to like that interpretation, but the official canon of Secret Garden ends with Archie and Colin walking across the lawn towards the house, just like in this movie.
Here is the full text of the book: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurSecr.html. Check it out -- it doesn't end with death or marriage of any kind.
His death is definitely not alluded to in ANY way, shape or form . . . you must be confusing this book with another book from your childhood.
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In the '87 movie it was mentioned that Dickon was killed in World War I - Burnett couldn't have alluded to this in the book as it was published in 1911, three years before WW1 started.
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I wouldn't say that Dickon's death is alluded to in the book but he seems like kind of a "dead meat" character in Victorian (or soon after) literature. This is what I wrote on the Andrew Knott board:
"Although Frances Burnett does not write that occurance, I think it fits very well for Dickon's character. He's such a good and happy person and helps other flawed characters become better. It just makes sense that he would die young, at least in a book like The Secret Garden."
I don't think we know Burnett's intent for the future of the characters so we're free to decide if she grew to care for either of them. Did she ever comment?
I saw nothing in the book that indicated Dickon's future and the IMO the sequel was lame. I like to pretend I never saw the movie. I'd rather imagine them all together as children myself.
The book was published before WWI... Unless the author was psychic, what you said couldn't possibly be true.
sharewhen i read the book i didnt think of any romance between the characters. but i think if she was gonna end up with someone, it would be dickon. colin is her cousin and it was a child's book wasnt it. plus colin and mary were very much like cousins or brother/sister.
in the film they added that scene where colin is apparently jealous of mary/dickon though.
news flash. dickon is her cousin aswell.
here are the facts.
everyone on earth are genetically related.
me you and everyone in this board are in fact cousins.
if you were to go back 1000 years and search both of our family records you would find that we have familiar connections.
no two people are no more then 50th cousins
so no matter what she would have married her cousin
Its been a while since I've read the book, but as much as I really hate to admit it (because I liked Dickon a lot as a character) I remember a part in it where Dickon himself alludes to his death possibly being early.
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I've read the book several times and I think that, while it's an interesting question, it was not even hinted to in the book. I think that the story is more about dicovering yourself and not in the least about discovering your possible mate. I respect your question, but rely I prefer to just take the story (the book) at face value and enjoy it as I did when I was a little girl.
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Obviously you have never read the book. Mary and Colin's mothers were not related at all except by marriage. Mary's father and Colin's mother were siblings, brother and sister.
shareeven today it isn't as unhealthy as you think.
siblings have a 7% chance of having a child with birth defect if they inbreed. and thats half siblings and full siblings.
that drastically drops to about 4 to 5% with 1st cousins and then normal couples(who mind you are still cousins since no two people are no more then 50th cousins) drop to about 2 to 3% chance
In the book, Mary's father was a brother of Mrs. Lennox's.
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