Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Dickon is Martha 's twelve-year-old brother. He spends most of his time out on the moor, enjoying the fresh air and befriending animals, especially abandoned baby animals that he then tames. Martha begins talking to Mary about Dickon long before Mary meets him, and she becomes entranced by the idea of him as he's so different from her.
She finally meets Dickon when he comes to bring her the gardening tools and seeds that she asked for. She initially describes him as somewhat unattractive, with ruddy cheeks, an upturned nose, and red hair. However, as she gets to know Dickon better and comes to admire his way with animals, she finds these physical qualities attractive.
Indeed, Martha and Mrs. Sowerby discuss that Dickon's upturned nose is like a rabbit's—constantly sniffing and wiggling to smell the moor—and after spending more time with him, both Mary and Colin begin to do the same thing. Dickon is a good, strong, and trustworthy boy who's a fixture among the locals, which is why Dr. Craven agrees to let Dickon push Colin's wheelchair out in the garden.
In the garden, he acts as Colin's guardian and offers him his arm as they walk laps. He participates fully as Colin comes up with his spiritual system of Magic and shows Mary and Colin how to properly garden and care for plants. In the robin 's narration, he mentions that Dickon speaks the robin language, thereby confirming Dickon's intimate relationship with the natural world.
While Dickon is friends with the robin, he also often brings along other tame animals, including Captain , a fox; Soot , a crow; and Nut and Shell , two squirrels. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Chapter 4 Quotes. Related Themes: Healing, Growth, and Nature. Page Number and Citation : 36 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 7 Quotes. Related Themes: Childrearing and Friendship. Page Number and Citation : 75 Cite this Quote. Page Number and Citation : 78 Cite this Quote.
Chapter 10 Quotes. Related Characters: Mary Lennox speaker , Dickon. Related Symbols: The Secret Garden. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Chapter 11 Quotes. Chapter 15 Quotes. Chapter 21 Quotes. Chapter 23 Quotes. Related Themes: The Power of Thought. Chapter 26 Quotes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 4. This intrigues Mary, as she's always wanted a pet.
Martha talks about Dickon , who plays alone on the moor for hours and befriends animals. This makes Mary want Chapter 6. She says that he's rescued half-drowned foxes and crows on Chapter 7. She says that she also likes Dickon and Martha wonders out loud if Dickon would like Mary. Coldly, Mary says that he She also thinks that she likes the garden, just like she likes the robin, Dickon , Martha, and Mother. Chapter 8. Mary asks if Dickon and Mother liked hearing about her.
Dickon apparently was intrigued like the rest, but Mother Chapter 9. He knows Mary as soon as he sees her, since Martha has told him about Mary's new interest in gardening. Mary trusts Dickon as soon as she sees him, and she tells him the secret of the Secret Garden. When Dickon first sees the garden, he sees that someone has looked after it over the last ten years—the first hint we get that Ben Weatherstaff has been caring for the garden off and on since Lilias's death.
Dickon helps Mary clear away the dead wood and identify the live branches in the roses that are growing all over the garden. Mary realizes that Dickon is basically magical—he can make anyone feel better. He starts out great and he ends great—which makes him fairly two-dimensional as a character. Still, without him, neither Mary nor Colin would be able to improve their health and happiness as much as they do.
Even though he isn't much older than either of them, he still acts as a kind of mentor in their search for a better life. After all, he has what they lack: a close connection to nature. Dickon obviously has an amazing instinct for the workings of the natural world. And while the novel doesn't often put this natural instinct into religious terms, the connection between Dickon's love of nature and a love of God does appear here and there in the later chapters of the book. Hearing Dickon sing makes even Ben Weatherstaff admit, "I never seed no sense in th' Doxology afore […] but I may change my mind i' time" In other words, while Dickon isn't trying to convert anyone to Christianity, the strength of his own faith and his own convictions affect everyone around him.
He tells Mary that "Sometimes I think perhaps I'm a bird, or a fox, or a squirrel Also like the Indians, he is visually marked as different from Mary and Colin—his difference is one of class, however, rather than of race. Mary comments several times upon Dickon's patched clothes and rough hair, as well as on the coarse simplicity of his food.
This class difference is an extremely provocative one for Mary: she is instantly drawn to Dickon, and her revelation of the garden to him is full of implicit eroticism.
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