One day, Matilda's father came home looking very angry. Seeing Matilda reading a book on the couch, he asked angrily what was the trash Matlda was reading. When Matilda answered back, though it was not a very good answer, her father snatched the book and tore it into pieces. Matilda, shocked, sat on the couch quietly, pale looking. In her head, her mind was whirring on how to pay her father back. Then she got an idea. The next day, Matilda went to her friends house to borrow Chopper, a parrot. He was reluctant to borrow Matilda his parrot but when she offered all of her week's pocket money, he readily agrees. When she got back home, she hid the parrot in the chimney.When everyone was watching tv that evening, they heard an invisible voice. Scared they took weapons- including Matilda who pretended to be scared too. Then the family ran out of the house.