The BFG Essay, Research Paper

Zach Brewster 8G

December 4, 1999

Book Report

English

The BFG

Beginning:My book is about a Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who goes around every night in different towns and blows dreams, that he captures, into little boy?s and girl?s rooms. No one has ever seen the BFG, except one night when he went to England where a young girl, named Sophie, lived. On that night she couldn?t get to sleep. It was about midnight, (in the story they call it the witching hour,) and Sophie was curious and wanted to know what happened outside so she peeped out her window. When she looked out her window, she saw the BFG and the BFG saw her. He didn?t want Sophie to go tell every one what she saw, so he swooped her up and carried her off to where he lived, Giant Country.

Development:

In Giant Country the BFG explained everything that happened and why he had to take her with him. She was very curious about every thing that the BFG did. He told her what he did and it wasn?t very exciting, except for the part that the BFG goes to a special place sometimes and that is where he collected all his dreams to blow to boys and girls. He also said that sometimes to make a dream more interesting he would mix different dreams together. Also if he got a bad dream (nightmare) he would keep it in his jar and never let it free to haunt a child.

In Giant Country the BFG wasn?t the only one. There were nine other giants that were ten times taller than the BFG who was only 24 feet high. These giants were man-eating giants, not dream blowing giants. Every night the nine giants would gallop off to one place and gobble up people from their beds or off the streets.

Climax:

Sophie, who was very scared of the giants, wanted to put an end to what these harsh giants did. She asked the BFG to mix a dream about nine mean giants and about a friendly giant and a little girl. She figured that if he mixed a dream that was true and blew it to the Queen of England, then she would be able to stop the giants. In the dream they mixed, they put that a little girl would be sitting on her windowsill and she would bring the Queen to the BFG. The BFG would bring the Queen and her army to Giant Country, and there they would capture the nine harsh giants.

Resolution:

All that was just a dream and that was what the Queen thought until she saw a little girl sitting on her windowsill. Everything that happened in the dream did happen and the nine giants were tied up with rope and carried away with nine helicopters. They were carried to England where the Queen had 4,000 diggers dig a hole 500 feet deep and 400 feet across. The nine giants were dropped in the hole, for that was there new home. Then the BFG was rewarded and so were Sophie and all of the men in the army.

From then on every one lived happily ever after! (Except for the nine captured giants.)