The BFG
CHAPTER 1: THE WITCHING HOUR The Witching Hour is the first chapter of the book
and it introduces Sophie (the main character). Sophie is an orphan who lives in England
with nine other little girls in her dormitory and with the woman, Mrs Clonkers, who ran
the place.
CHAPTER 2: WHO? In the middle of witching hour Sophie wakes up and sees some
kind of person, A GIANT PERSON! Outside her window, walking down her street! What
is Sophie going to do?
CHAPTER 3: THE SNATCH Sophie hid under her blanket, then she peeped out and her
blood froze. Outside her window she saw a large wrinkly face of the GIANT staring in!
Then Sophie felt a huge hand clamp over her, then she was lifted up...
CHAPTER 4: THE CAVE Sophie feels that she is moving, moving very fast, but how? The
wind is rushing past her face as she bravely peeks out from her blanket. Who is it?
Where is she going? Will she ever see the Orphanage again?
CHAPTER 5: THE BFG Soon enough she feels that the moving has stopped until
something/someone picks her up and moves Sophie onto a flat surface. She hears the
giant boom a few words and she stammers to ask him/her not to eat her and when she
peaks out she sees the full image of who took her....... It was a GIANT! They start to talk
about what countries are visited most by the other giants.
CHAPTER 6: THE GIANTS The giant and Sophie started to talk about why he doesn't
eat humans, '"But if you are so nice and friendly" Sophie said " Then why did you snatch
me from my bed and run away with me" As Sophie tries to understand why she was
bought here, the giant keeps babbling on about giant country and how things work
around here.
CHAPTER 7: THE MARVELLOUS EARS The BFG checks to see if Sophie is comfortable
and warm in her nightie, The BFG starts to think of Sophie's life back in England with
her parents and school but one thing he doesn't know is that Sophie doesn't have
parents. She explains what happened and where she was before he took her away and
brought her to this country.
CHAPTER 8: SNOZZCUMBERS The conversation about why The BFG doesn't eat
humans continues and she asks ' But if you don't eat people like all the others, then
what do you live on?" He tells Sophie that he lives on these icky-poo vegetables
called.......... SOZZCUMBERS!? 'Snozzcumbers' Sophie cries 'There's no such thing'. The
BFG pulls out one of the out-of-the-ordinary vegetable and it was half as long as an
ordinary man but much thicker. It was as thick around its girth as a perambulator. It
was black with white stripes along it length and it was covered all over with corse
knobbles.
CHAPTER 9: THE BLOODBOTTLER A thumping sound comes from the outside of the
cave with a voice so deep screaming '" Runt! Is you there, Runt? I is hearing you
jabbeling! Who is you jabbeling to, Runt?"' The BFG knows straight away that the voice
was coming from no other than the BLOODBOTTLER!! He quickly tells Sophie to hide as
he knows that the Bloodbottler gobbles up human beans. Before they know the
Bloodbottler is standing before the BFG and roars at him with his suspicions.
CHAPTER 10: FROBSCOTTLE AND WIZZPOPPERS Sophie is starting to get a bit
hungry and thirsty and she thought that if she had been at home she would have
finished her breakfast long ago. The BFG told her that there is no water in Giant Land, so
they drink a liquid called Frobscottle and when he shook it the bubbles went down and
bursted at the bottom instead of up to the surface and bursting there. Frobscottle is
delicious but it does make an unpleasant sound as the bubbles do go down once you've
drank it.
CHAPTER 11: JOURNEY TO DREAM COUNTRY Once Sophie and The BFG's Frobscottle
party was over he started to tell Sophie what else he does when the other giants are
guzzling up human beans. He goes to Dream Country where he catches dreams and
blows them into little children's bedrooms at night but only if they're good dreams and
not nightmares.
CHAPTER 12: DREAM CATCHING When they arrive he tells Sophie that she needs to
be really quiet and really still. She did what she was told as she sit in the BFG waistcoat
and watched carefully what he was doing and when he waved his net and shrieked with
excitement she realised he was catching dreams. The BFG told Sophie that the dream he
caught was a really good dream, he looked around hoping that there would be a big
patch of good dreams around. But all he got was a bad dream which he actually realised
was worse, it was a NIGHTMARE!!!
CHAPTER 13: A TROGGLEHUMPER FOR THE FLESHLUMPEATER The giants were
having fifty winks (a sleep) before they set off to go and gobble up some little human
beans as The BFG and Sophie were coming back from Dream Country. 'Giants is only
sleeping then and now' he said 'Not nearly as much as human beans . Human beans is
crazy for sleeping. Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending
about twenty years sleeping fast?' Then The BFG had an idea and says 'Wait!' He said
'Hold your horsefeathers! Hold your horsefeathers! Keep your skirt on! Just you wait to
see what I is going to bring about!' He started for cave and little Sophie was clinging on
to the pocket of The BFG's waistcoat, he got his big thin trumpet and made for the other
giants when they arrived they were standing 10 feet from the Fleshlumpeater's face,
The BFG put the dream in the trumpet and blew at the giant and it was visible for a bit
but then it disappeared. Soon enough he was firing up and scream at Jack whom he
DREADS!!!
CHAPTER 14: DREAMS The BFG labels his dream jars and once again reflects on
human behaviour. He hat that humans only believe something if they see it. Sophie
reads some of the dreams and she learns that the BFG learned to read and write from a
book called "Nicholas Nickleby". When Sophie sees that the other giants are off to
England to “guzzle a few chiddlers” she is shocked.
CHAPTER 15: THE GREAT PLAN Sophie hates the idea of how the other giants are
going and eating all the "little chiddlers" for their own satisfaction, so she tells The BFG
she has a great idea. As she tells him, he has a regretting and unsure expression on his
face. He tries to her that her plan will not work because "human beans is never believing
in giants unless they see them", but Sophie is sure that it will work because The BFG can
make humans dream anything you want. But the BFG said "that is why you is waking up
and saying ' few that was just a dream'"
CHAPTER 16: MIXING THE DREAM What happens to the bits of dreams the BFG
doesn't use? Well he uses them to mix new dreams like he does in this chapter when he
is mixing a dream for the queen in a big jar with a whisk like thing.
CHAPTER 17: JOURNEY TO LONDON 'The great yellow wasteland lay dim and milky
in the moonlight as the BFG went galloping across it.' Sophie and the BFG are on their
way to Buckingham, England to Her Majesty the Queen, Sophie is only in her nightie and
as they were moving fast the BFG realised that there was something in the distance,
something familiar, it was the OTHER GIANTS!!' Look quick-quick over there' he said
pointing his long trumpet. Sophie looked in the direction he was pointing. Through the
murky darkness all she saw at first was a great cloud of dust about three hundred yards
away. ' Those is the other giants all galloping back home after their guzzle'the BFG said.'
Soon enough they reached England, but soon the Bfg says that they are lost and Sophie
is worried but she then realises where they are and directs him the right way.
CHAPTER 18: THE PALACE 'By gumdrops whispered the BFG ' Is this really it?' There's
the palace,' Sophie whispered back'. As the BFG gallops on, Sophie starts to tip out and
she yells out to the giant and he tells her to shoosh because there was a guard padding
softly across the lawn. They wait for him to go and once he does they check all the
windows to make sure that no-one is awake, once they reach the Queens bedroom he
stops and kneels to be able to be in level with the window. He gets out his long trumpet
and blows in the dream to the Queen, the BFG leaves Sophie with the Queen and tells
her to call him when he is ready.
CHAPTER 19: THE QUEEN Once dawn comes at last and the lemon-coloured sun rose,
Sophie felt a little of its warmth on her back and she could hear the church bells strike.
She counted seven.'She found it almost impossible to believe that she, Sophie, a little
orphan of no real importance in the world, was at this moment actually sitting high
above the ground on the window-sill of the Queen of England's bedroom, with the
Queen herself asleep in there behind the curtain no more than five yards away'. She
listen as the Queen is a little sleep talker and finally she hears a woman greet the Queen,
but the Queen talk with a sudden panic of horror from the dream that she had. But she
had seen in the newspaper headlines that many girls and boys have been snatched from
their boarding school beds, Sophie slips down onto the sill and introduces herself, then
a conversation about the giants and how she was taken started. She then called the BFG
to show them he was a friendly giant and the Queen herself invites them to eat at
breakfast. (without snozzcumbers)
CHAPTER 20: THE ROYAL BREAKFAST Soon after that there was a frantic scurry
among the palace servants because they had received the orders from the queen that a
twenty four-foot giant had to be seated with her in the ballroom within the next half an
hour! All the servants were freaking out and worrying about what they were going to sit
the giant on so they thought they might put a set of chester drawers on top of the piano
and that would be his chair. They then had to fetch a pair of unused garden forks and
spade, they also had to fetch the biggest jug they can find in the kitchen. Soon enough
they were all seated and ready to eat, the BFG ate an enormous amount of food.
CHAPTER 21: THE PLAN Sophie and the BFG tell the head of Army and the head of the
Air force their plan. The Army men want to give up and not do the plan because they
think it will be to hard, but they finally agree to do the plan.
CHAPTER 22: CAPTURE! When they try and catch the sleeping giant a dangerous
incident happened and only with Sophie's bravery and courage and the BFG's sneaky
and cunning lie can they succeed.
CHAPTER 23: FEEDING TIME As the giants were getting captured there was a
tremendous hustle and bustle going on back home in England. Every earth digger and
mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilised to dig a colossal hole for the
nine giants were to be permanently imprisoned. For some reason the giants were totally
unsure of why they were getting put down in the hole, which seemed quite dumb.
Because the giants will now not be able to be allowed to eat human beans the BFG told
Her Majesty that they will now be only allowed to eat the nasty snozzcumbers. '" There's
your supper!" He shouted "Have a munch on that"' and Her Majesty praised the BFG for
his cleverness and knowledge.
CHAPTER 24: THE AUTHOR In the end the whole world thanked Sophie, The BFG and
the Queen. Signs were put up to say that feeding the giants is forbidden and Sophie
loves the BFG so much that she volunteered to give him lessons to read and write
properly, soon he started to write essays and much more about his past life in Giant
Land. His stories were a success and The Queen read them aloud to many children ( or
should I say childdlers) of England.