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ـ ذا بي إف جي، للمؤلف
رولد دال.
The BFG
(short for "Big Friendly Giant") is a children's book written by
Roald Dahl
and illustrated by
Quentin Blake
, first published in
1982
. The book was an expansion of a story told in
Danny, the Champion of the World
, an earlier Dahl book. An
animated film based on the book
was released in 1989 with
David Jason
providing the voice of the BFG and
Amanda Root
as the voice of Sophie. The book went on to win a
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
prize in 1985. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance.
British writer, famous for his ingenious short stories and macabre children's books. Dahl's taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and the comic grotesque fascinated young readers, but upset many adult critics. Several of Dahl's stories have been made into films, including
Matilda
, dir. by Danny DeVito (1996).
'Aunt Glosspan,' the boy said, ' what do ordinary people eat that we don't?'
'Animals,' she answered, tossing her head in disgust.
'You mean live animals?'
'No,' she said. 'Dead ones.'
(from 'Pig' in
Kiss, Kiss
, 1959)
The BFG
(1982).
Plot
The story is about a little girl named Sophie, after the author's granddaughter
Sophie Dahl
One night, when Sophie cannot fall asleep during the "
witching hour
", she sees a
giant
blowing something into the bedroom windows down the street. The giant notices her, reaches through the window, and carries her to his home in Giant Country.
Once there, he reveals that he is the world's only benevolent giant, the Big Friendly Giant or
BFG
, who operating in the strictest
secrecy
, collects good
dreams
that he later distributes to children. By means of immense
ears
he can hear dreams and their contents (which manifest themselves in a misty Dream Country as floating, blob-like objects) and blow them via a
trumpet
-like
blowpipe
into the bedrooms of children. When he catches a
nightmare
, he explodes it, or uses it to start fights among the other giants, who periodically enter the human world to steal and eat "human beans", especially children. The BFG, because he refuses to do likewise, subsists on a foul-tasting
vegetable
known as a snozzcumber, and on a drink called frobscottle, which is unusual in that the
bubbles
in the drink travel downwards and therefore cause the drinker to
break wind
instead of burp; this causes noisy
flatulence
known as Whizzpoppers.
Sophie and the BFG become friends early on; later, she persuades him to approach the Queen of England on behalf of capturing the other giants. To this end, the BFG creates a nightmare introducing the man-eating giants to the Queen and leaves Sophie in the Queen's bedroom to confirm it true. Because the dream included the knowledge Sophie's presence, the Queen believes her and speaks with the BFG. After considerable effort by the palace staff to create a table, chair, and cutlery of appropriate size for him to use, the BFG is given a lavish breakfast, and the Queen begins a plan of eliminating the other giants. She calls the
King of Sweden
and the Sultan of
Baghdad
to confirm the BFG's story - the giants having visited those locations on the previous two nights – then summons the Head of the
Army
and the
Marshal of the
Air Force
. The said officers, though initially belligerent and skeptical, are brought to co-operate.
Eventually, a huge fleet of
helicopters
follows the BFG to the giants' homeland. While the child-eating giants are asleep, the Army ties them up, hangs them under the helicopters, and (after a brief struggle with the largest and fiercest of the giants, known as the Fleshlumpeater), flies them to
London
, where a special pit has been constructed from which they will not be able to escape. With thousands watching closely, the BFG unties the giants, then feeds them snozzcumbers which they will eat for the rest of their lives as a punishment for eating human beings.
Afterwards, a huge castle is built to serve as the BFG's new house, with a little cottage next door for Sophie. While they are living happily in England, the BFG writes a book of their adventures, which is stated to be the same book in which the afore-mentioned story is narrated (a literary device also apparent in
James and the Giant Peach
and
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
).
Characters
·
Sophie: The orphaned protagonist of the story, who becomes heroic by causing the man-eating giants to be captured.
·
The BFG: A 24-foot-tall individual possessed of superhuman hearing and immense ability of speed, whose primary occupation is the collection and distribution of good dreams to children. He also appears in another novel,
Danny, the Champion of the World
, in which he is introduced as a folkloric character.
·
The Queen of England
: The Queen is based on
Elizabeth II
.
·
Mary: The Queen's Maid
·
Mr. Tibbs: The Palace butler
·
Mrs. Clonkers: The
unseen
director of the orphanage to which Sophie originally belongs; described as cruel and often abusive to her charges.
·
Head of the Army: Very dependent on guns
·
Head of the Air Force; Very dependent on bombs
·
King of Sweden
: Sometimes Queen of Sweden in play versions
·
Sultan of Baghdad
: Often omitted from plays and films as he is portrayed in a slightly racist and dated way.
·
Monsieur Papillon: The Queen's chief cook.
[
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] Giants
The
nine
evil giants in the story
·
The Fleshlumpeater
·
The Bonecruncher
·
The Manhugger
·
The Childchewer
·
The Meatdripper
·
The Gizzardgulper
·
The Maidmasher
·
The Bloodbottler
·
The Butcher Boy
Most of the evil giants are only mentioned by name; some are given a larger role, such as Fleshlumpeater, who is the largest and most dangerous of them all (and therefore something of a leader), and Bloodbottler, who invades the BFG's
cave
early in the story. The BFG later narrates the hunting methods of Childchewer, Gizzardgulper, and Meatdripper. It is also remarked that each giant has his favourite hunting ground, though they vary at times. Because every ethnicity of humans is said to taste different from the others, the giants have certain
preferences
, although all detest
Greece
as a hunting ground. This is because the flavors supposedly reflect the names and/or principal
exports
of the native land: therefore,
Greeks
taste greasy;
Turks
, taste like
turkey
;
Danes
taste like
dogs
(
Labradors
- those from
Labrador
taste like
Great Danes
), and
Swedes
taste
sweet and sour
; people from
Wales
taste of
fish
(because the name sounds like that of "
whales
"); etc. Also, the BFG says that evil giants are twice as tall as him, so he's a comparatively runty giant. (In his own words, "24 feet is puddlenuts in giant country.")
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