The BFG [Big Friendly Giant] – Roald Dahl

This story is about a girl named Sophie who spends time with a big friendly giant

It was night time. Sophie was tucked up in her bed. She wasn’t sleepy at all. She was literally looking at the window next to her which was wide open. She thought, “This night is the quietest night than other nights, this kind of a night is called the witching hour”. She got tired of staying in her bed awake that she got up and stood near the window looking at all the shops, trees etc. As she was watching, suddenly she heard footsteps marching towards her. She got scared.

She turned her head towards the direction where she heard that sound. She saw a man three times taller than an ordinary man. She then noticed that man pulling out a trumpet from his suitcase and put it inside the open window. Then he blew the trumpet and he took something out of his wide long hands and put it inside a bottle. Sophie wondered what that was. The man walked towards Sophie’s house and he found her awake. He put his long hands through the window and grabbed the little girl Sophie and went to his house. As he put Sophie down on the floor, he saw her sweating.

Sophie asked the man nervously, “Why did you bring me here?”. The man said, “We are giants. When we see humans awake, we will have to take them and bring them here””. Sophie asked, “Are you gonna kill me?”. The giant said “I’m supposed to, but I’m not like other giants who kills people”. I’m going to keep you with me”.

Sophie then nervously said “Okay”.

The next day Sophie learned a lot of new things about other giants. Sophie was thirsty she asked the giant, “I want water”.

“Water?. There’s no such thing as water” said the giant.

Sophie said, “Then what do you drink if you are thirsty?”

“We drink a juice called frobscottle.”

Sophie then drank the frobscottle the bfg gave her.

Sophie asked, “What do you eat when you are hungry?”

The bfg said, “We eat something called scozzcumbers“.

As they were talking they heard a tremendous noise. The bfg said, “Oh! no! It is one of the giants named bloodblotter. Hide Sophie”. The bloodblotter entered the room and the bfg welcomed him warmly.
The bloodblotter said, ” I know you have a human in here”.
The bfg said, “There is no human in here”.
As the bloodblotter was looking around, the bfg suddenly gave him scozzcumbers, the bloodblotter ate and in half way he spit it out and ran away.

The bfg looked down and saw Sophie. Sophie said, “I was actually sitting on the scozzcumber”. The bfg wiped out the dirt on Sophie and said, “It is night time; we have to catch dreams”. Then he took Sophie on his hand along with a trumpet and a water bottle and left.
The bfg then took out his trumpet, kept it near an open window. He sucked the dreams and put it inside the water bottle.
Sophie said, “It is wobbling like anything”.
The bfg said, “It is wobbling because they are dreams”. “I distribute the good dreams to children whereas I destroy the bad dreams”.

He went to the other sleeping giants and sucked their dreams up.
The bfg said to Sophie, “Let’s go and meet the Queen of England “.
He put Sophie in his huge ears and started his journey to England.
On their way Sophie was taking something really loud that the bfg’s ear started shaking.
The bfg said to Sophie, “Please don’t speak loud. My ear drums are shaking badly”.

When they reached England, bfg was confused where to go.
Sophie said, “I have come to this place before, so go around the round-about, you will find the queen’s palace”.
The bfg followed Sophie’s instruction and reached the queen’s palace. They were next to the queen’s window when the bfg noticed two people walking.

He hid himself and when they left he got up, He put Sophie down and whispered in her ears, “I will lift you up and keep you near the queen’s window, you sit there until the queen wakes up”.
Sophie sat on the queen’s window and heard the queen snoring extremely loudly. Sophie also heard footsteps marching towards the queen. She heard the queen speak, “Mary nice to meet you”.
As the maid turned back, she saw someone sitting on the window. She opened the window and saw a giant and a human being. The maid screamed. The queen kept staring at the giant.
The queen asked, “Why are you hear Mr. Giant?”.
The bfg said, “Your majesty, I wanted to meet you”.
The queen welcomed him and decided to give him some food. The bfg had to sit on a big clock and eat.
“Please call the army of the two heads”, the queen said.
The bfg narrated the whole story to them and asked them to destroy the giants. The army of the two heads brought helicopters and cars.The bfg said, “Please follow me to my home”. When they reached the bfg’s home, they noticed that the giants were fast asleep. When they got ready to capture the giants, one of the giants woke up. As Sophie was so tiny she bit the giant’s leg and he cried with pain.
The bfg encouraged her, finally they all tied them over the helicopter and threw them in a hole next to the queens palace.

The people who saw this, made a note in bold capital letters that it was forbidden to feed the giants.