Category: Roald Dahl
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.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Charlie and the chocolate factory begins with a sad story. Charlie is a young and poor boy, who lives with his grandparents and parents. He never used to get the amount of food he has to get. Charlie’s parents earned just enough money to feed Charlie. They ate the food that was left over after Charlie finished eating. Charlie used to go to school and on his way Charlie would see Willy Wonka’s factory.
Willy Wonka Factory is a factory where people come to work like an office. Willy Wonka factory makes chocolates. Willy Wonka factory chocolates are the tastiest chocolates better than other factory chocolates. In Willy Wonka factory they make chocolates that wouldn’t melt in sunlight.
But suddenly something unexpected happened.
Workers from other factories started stealing the secret recipes from Willy Wonka‘s factory. So Willy Wonka closed the factory. This was a shock for everyone. They used to come near the brass gate and would peep through the window that was inside the gate to see if there’s anybody inside the factory or not. But only one thing that was visible through the window was small shadows moving in all directions. People who were near the brass gate waiting for it to open did not know that the moving shadows were Willy Wonka’s.
After a few days …….
Willy Wonka sent a message saying that five children will be allowed inside the factory, and the lucky five children will be allowed to see all the secrets of the factory. Mr Willy Wonka also asked to bring the children’s parents along with the children. He wrote this message on a golden ticket and placed into a chocolate wrapper with a message above the wrapper saying ‘Willy Wonka’. The first golden ticket was found by a greedy little boy named Augustus Gloop. The second golden ticket was found by Violet Beurgarade and like that others including Charlie, got the golden ticket too.
Everybody along with their parents came to the factory and went to room named ‘Chocolate room’. In the chocolate room Augustas Gloop saw a puddle mixed with chocolate. Augustus Gloop saw the chocolate river and started licking the chocolate greedily. Willy Wonka saw Augustus Gloop eating the chocolate greedily. Willy Wonka told Augustus Gloop, “Oh! Dear Augustus Gloop, I don’t think that is meant for humans to eat”. While Augustus Gloop was listening to Willy Wonka he suddenly tripped over something and he fell into the chocolate river.
Everybody except Augustus Gloop and his parents went to another room named ‘The Chewing gum room’. Willy Wonka showed them all, how to make chewing gum. Violet Beaurgade who loved eating chewing gum didn’t know that the chewing gum was magical. Violet ignored Willy Wonka’s warning. After a few bites of the chewing gum, Violet’s face started to become purple and she started to become fat. Her parents were shouting at Violet to spit the chewing gum, but Violet replied, “No. I won’t spit. It is quite tasty”. So like Augustus and Violet every other child got into some trouble.
Only one person did not get into trouble and that was Charlie Bucket.
In the end Willy Wonka told Charlie that he has started getting old and he has decided to hand over the factory to Charlie.
After reading this book, I watched this movie in Prime Video 🙂
