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Titel: | James and the giant peach |
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Jaar van uitgave: | 1961 |
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Geslacht: | man |
Nationaliteit: | Engels |
Geboren: | 13 september 1916 |
Overleden: | 23 november 1990 |
Informatie: | http://www.roalddahl.com/ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl |
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Title explanation:
The main character’s name is James. He goes into a very big peach.
Place:
In the garden of James' aunts, in the giant peach and in cities like New York.
Time:
In the book is no time.
Main characters:
James: James is the main character of the book. He is a Boy of 7 years old, his parents were eaten by a rhinoceros, when they went to London. Now James lives in a house – of his aunts- at the top of a hillock, at the sea. He must work for his aunts, and he may not play with toys.
Aunt Spiker: She is a tall woman, with glasses. She is same as Aunt Sponge, really devilish for James.
Aunt Sponge: She has the same character as Aunt Spiker, but she isn’t tall: She is a fat and little.
Plot:
James' parents go to London. On the street a rhinoceros eats his parents. Then James lives at his aunts home. He must work for his aunts. Then, when he must cut wood, an old man gives him a bag with green things. The man says if he eats those things, he will be happy. But accidentally the things come into the ground, by a dead peach tree. Then there grows a giant peach. Then James sees an entrance in the peach. He goes in, and there are other insects, really big insects. As tall as James. He goes with the insects, in the peach, to New York, and the peach is on the Empire State Building. How this ended? Read ‘James and the Giant Peach’!
Favourite part:
“It was at this point that the first thing of all, the rather peculiar thing that led to so many other much more peculiar things, happiness to him.
For suddenly, just behind him, James heard a rustling of leaves, and he turned round and saw an old man in a funny dark-green suit emerging from the bushes. He was a very small old man, but he had a huge bald head and a face that was covered all over with bristly black whiskers. He stopped when he was about three yards away, and he stood there leaning on his stick and staring hard at James.
When he spoke, his voice war very slowly and creaky. 'Come closer to me, little Boy,' he said, beckoning to James with a finger. 'Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.'
James was too frightened to move.”
It’s my favourite part because it’s funny to read about an old man that gives a Boy a bag with crocodile tongues. (That turns out a lot of lines after the quoted text.)
My verdict:
It’s not my favourite book, because it’s really impossible. Nobody can go in a peach, or see insects so long as a 7-years-Boy. But it’s also funny.
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