From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, to The Witches, and many other books I’ve read of Roald Dahl, The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) would have to be my favourite. It’s fun most adolescents can read it in a day or two. It’s easy to read and grabs the reader’s attention. Dahl creates a sense of wonder for the readers as he makes up new words (e.g. filthsome" snozzcumber) just to make it fun and engaging to read. Most of his books are the same, full of weird and quirky new vocabulary that isn’t used in the real world.
The novel is about a little girl named Sophie who lives in an orphan and is snatched from her bed by a Giant (known as the BFG), she fears that he's going to eat her. Although the BFG carries her far away to Giant Country, he has no intention of harming her. Sophie and the BFG soon develop a quick friendship. She learns that he mixes up dreams to blow through a trumpet into the rooms of sleeping children. But soon, all the BFG's powers are put to the test….
It’s a very applicable in a book about things that don’t really exist, man eating giants, it helps the reader appreciate that these things aren’t real and adds imagination to it.
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