The BFG Book (short for The Big Friendly Giant) Chapter 5
For upon |After reading Chapter 5, has your opinion of The BFG changed from the first few chapters? What do you think of him now? Give some examples as to why you think that of him.
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Luke
My opinion about the BFG changed because I thought the BFG was a mean Giant but now I learned he is not mean at all.
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Caden
Yeah, I thought he was mean to Luke.
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Declan
Same to Caden
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Bella
We are in chapter 6 when we read about bone cruncher I got really nervous because bone cruncher eats people. What chapter are you in?
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Patrick
I think that to
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Gianna
I thought that the BFG ate humans but it turns out that only the other giants do and the BFG does not
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Caden
Same here Gianna.
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Hudson
No, because I always thought he was good
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Ella
I don’t think that makes sense. but okay!
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Patrick
same here.
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Emerson
I didn’t say he was scary but he isn’t scary now that he sorta-Kinda showed he is a vegetarian(that means he doesn’t eat meat).
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Ivy
That’s true it’s Ivy
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Emerson
Is it true that the BFG stands for big friendly giant????
❤️,
Emerson
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Sharon
Yes it does Emerson
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Brandon
I think you should not put emojis
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Emerson
I can
Mia
Yes, BFG indeed stands for a big friendly giant.
❤️,
Mia
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Blake
You spelled vegetarian wrong, Emerson
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Kyle
Emerson, you spelled vegetarian wrong
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Ella
Do you think he cuts them up and then eats them, what if the human is at a sale????
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Kenny
I agree with you
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Baylor
I thought he was going to eat Sophie
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Mia
So did I.
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Caden
So did I Baylor.
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Sharon
Not me but at the very 1st part I thought that too.
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Chase
I did chase.
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Jack
I think he is nice because he didn’t eat Sophie and he didn’t go out and eat humans.
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Brody
Yes, I thought he was mean but he seems to be nice. I am Brody!
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Gabriel
My opinion has not changed because I watched the movie so I already knew. What about yours?
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Dylan
He has changed he was mean and now he is nice
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Calvin
My opinion of the BFG has changed from him being really mean to friendly and nice.
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Sharon
Hmm true
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Mia
I think the BFG changed from what I thought he was in the beginning I thought he was mean but then I realized he was Actually rather nice.
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Mia
I think BFG is nice too! Well because BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.
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Blake
Now I think he’s nice because he told her that he doesn’t eat people.
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Patrick
I think that to
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Laman
My thoughts have changed because they had a conversation.
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Calvin
Same.
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Diego
I think the BFG is really nice and my expression has not changed Brains.
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Brandon
I think you are right.
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Gianna
Hi, l am Gianna at Beechwood I am a third grader l think you are really smart about the big book.
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Baylor
What is your favorite book?
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Blake
Shark wars and big Nate
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Hudson
Mine is the On The Run series
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Declan
My name is Declan and my favorite book is who was Babe Ruth
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Caden
You’re not on the right topic Declan.
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Calvin
Mine’s the Harry Potter series.
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Blake
I agree Calvin.
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Calvin
Thanks!
Declan
What is your favorite book
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Caden
My favorite Book is I Survived Sires.
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Mackenzie
I Is the Weird School series
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Charlotte
So is mine
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Lilly
I love my weird school series
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winter
so is mine.
Chloe
I also like the My Weird School series!
Josiah
mine is the I Survived series.
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winter
Baylor, I think you are on the topic.
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Savanna
My favorite book is the BFG so for 1 other.
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Baylor
My favorite book is Big Nate and the BFG
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Hudson
Cool I like BFG To
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Patrick
you might want to fix that
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Samantha
After I read about Chapter 5 my prediction was right Sophie is brave
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Sharon
Me too she doesn’t run away or anything
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OWEN
DUH,
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Emerson
The BFG stands for big friendly giant so I knew he wouldn’t eat “humans.”
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Ivy
GREAT COMMENT ABOUT IT
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Brandon
I think the BFG is friendly to Sophie.
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Nicole
I always thought the BFG was nice and part of that reason was BFG stands for the big friendly giant. I think the friendly part is because he is nice and he didn’t eat Sophie.
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Ivy
I agree I agree I agree
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Makenna
I thought that the BFG would eat Sofie. But now the BFG won’t eat Sofie because they had that conversation. About eating human beans. Also, I am a 3rd grader in Fullerton, California. Also, my name is Makenna.
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Mia
I thought the BFG would eat Sofie too until I read Chapter 5.
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Peter
I think he is really nice and really tall because he told Sophie that he is a big friendly giant and he is 24 feet tall.
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Ryle
I do not think that the BFG is different because I have seen the movie AND read the book. That is what I think about the BFG.
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Garrett
I think he’s nice
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Sharon
Me too Garret
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Ivy
My opinion has not changed because I already knew
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Zhe
I think the BFG is smarter than I thought because in chapter 5 he told Sophie about the Giants.
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Laman
Me too
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Sharon
Me as well
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Baylor
Hello
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Alexander
I think that the BFG is weird
Alex
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Calvin
Why do you think that Alex?
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Sharon
That’s mean
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Laman
Why is the weird Alex??
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Tiffany
I think the giant is nice because he said he does not eat humanely.
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Sharon
Me too I like Sophie
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Baylor
Hi
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Declan
I did not know that he was nice
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Kyle
Hi I’m Kyle
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Shanelle
Hi, Brandon what is your favorite part my favorite part of the story is when Sophie and the BFG talk in a weird language.
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Rio
My opinion on the BFG has changed because, first I thought he was a not-smart- giant, and now I think he’s a very smart giant. I think my opinion has changed because in chapter 5 you get introduced to the giant and he tells a lot of information about what the other giants are like and explains why he kidnapped her.
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Caden
Hi, I’m Caden, I think it has changed so much and it is like a howel new story.
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Declan
I know right
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Sharon
Hi, I’m Sharon I’m a 3rdgrader of course I think the BFG would earn Sophie’s trust so then they become BFFs YAY!
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Tiffany
Thanks, Gianna
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Hudson
Mine is the On The Run series
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Madison
The first time I read the book, I thought the giant was mean because the summary showed some of the giant’s names, and the story said something that made me think it was one of those mean Giants. I read more and realized it was the BFG. I was wondering the same thing as Sophie;” Why did the BFG snatch Sophie?”The story told me the reason and it made sense; the BFG didn’t want to be locked up for people to see him just like zoo animals and a giant hunt would spread across the whole world. The news would be spread onto the Telly Telly bunkum box(television and radio).
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Makenna
I agree with Baylor. Because I also thought that the giant would eat Sofie.
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Declan
Me too
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Aleah
I agree with you Emerson
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Brandon
BFG stands for a big friendly giant so he will not eat Sophie.
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Samantha
I agree with Emerson
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Chase
I think that she is going to help him and be nice forever
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Brandon
Since he is friendly I predict that he is the only one who doesn’t eat human beans than any other giant.
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Ella
Hi hi, hiiiiii!!!!!I’m Ella .im a girl in C.A. Fullerton how are you doing everyone? it’s nice to connect with all of you, hey let’s talk about Chapter 5. While reading about how the people tasted I was getting clues about the BFG, what do you think????
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Ella
Sorry, it was supposed to say all of you not all of sorrrrrrrry!
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Jayden
I always thought he was good because I saw the movie but I think if I didn’t watch the movie it would have changed
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Grace
Hi, my name is Grace I am in 3 grade and I am reading the BFG my opinion is that this book is really like this book and I would like to hear what happened next in the book.
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Brandon
BFG is nice.
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Dylan
Why is BFG nice
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Aleah
I thought he was going to eat Sophie Because he kept going to every house in the neighborhood and he kept peering in into everyone’s house.
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Dylan
Dylan yes the giant changed he was mean but now he is nice because he did not eat Sophie
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Collin
I think the BFG was acting mean but now I think he is nice. But I wonder why he is not like the other giants.
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Caden
I want to know Collin because he isn’t like the other giants.
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Calvin
Maybe he didn’t realize what he was doing but then he started being nice to human ‘beans’
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Simone
ya me too because he does not know what human ‘beans’
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Leah
Why is he not like the other giants?
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Kiersten
I think BFG is nice because he seems like a good friend.
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Makenna
I also like that part to Shanelle.
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Brandon
BFG does not mean the opposite of sad is…….
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Tiffany
Brandon, I agree with you that he is friendly too
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Samantha
I agree with Baylor
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Sharon
I think he was funny because he said funny stuff
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Makenna
What is that book Declan?
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Jade
At the beginning of the story, I thot the BFG was mean like the other giants but he turned out to be a nice giant and did not eat people.
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Madelyn Ann
I think he is nice and he is not mean.
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Victoria
Me too
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Josephine
At the beginning of the story, I thought that the BFG was mean and rude story and I thought The BFG was mean because he stuck his hand through the window of the orphanage building snatched Sophie, and ran off with Sophie in her blanket but the BFG was really nice he would never eat a human being he is a vegetarian he only eats vegetables he is a jumbly giant he is not like the other mean Giants the other Giants are really mean and rude and eat human beings.
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Brandon
The BFG
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Brandon
I am sorry I did not explain.
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Samantha
I agree with Ella
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Makenna
What is your favorite movie?
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Makenna
Mine is Star Wars.
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Caden
I like Star Wars to Makenna.!!
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Mia
At the beginning of the story, I thought the BFG was going to eat Sophie but then when I read this chapter I Figured out that BFG was not going to eat Sophie!
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Tiffany
Yeah I think about the clues too and I think he is nice Ella what do you think
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Mia
I think the BFG is nice and FRIENDLY!
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OWEN
NOOOOO, CAPS!
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Brandon
The BFG is nice because he is not going to eat Sophie.
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Caden
Do you like the BFG movie and book?
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Phelan
I like the book better I think it tells more details than the movie.
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Ella
Hmm, what book do I like? THINK ELLA, oh who would win !!!!
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Aleah
I can’t believe that the BFG was actually a very happy giant
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Joshua
Caden’s right Declan is not on the right topic.
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Jake
Jake
I thought the BFG was going to eat her, but I was wrong.
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Josef
Josef, I always thought that the BFG was going to eat Sophie but it turns out that the other giants eat humans, and that changed a lot about the BFG.
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Sidra
Sidra
My opinion has changed and what I think of him now is that he is a friendly giant because he tells Sophie to not go outside. After all, the other giants will gobble her up.
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Joshua
Joshua
I think he is nice because he says “Don’t go out there they will eat you
so he is trying to protect her so he is nice.
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Ronin
Ronin I thought that the BFG was going to help her but I was wrong The BFG is nice and truthful because he told the girl that the Giants eat people He is also nice because he doesn’t eat the girl.
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Terry
Terry, I think the BFG is nice because he says I do eat human beans
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Caryn Jo
Caryn Jo
My opinion about the BFG was actually correct. I thought that the BFG was nice. Sophie thought that the BFG was going to eat her but she was wrong. The BFG told Sophie that he doesn’t eat “human
beans”
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Mia
I think the BFG is a vegetarian. 1I did,t know if he was good or mean. I
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Chloe
I first thought that the BFG was cruel, mean, and one of the human-eating giants because of the way Rauld Daul wrote that he had a devilish look in his eyes.
But now I know that he is a kindhearted giant because he said that would just be cruel.
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Bryce
You’re right I thought he was mean to
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Josiah
yes, very true.
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Aaron
I think the BFG is getting nicer but he is still being pretty good.
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Lilly
that is not true the BFG is nice
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Charlotte
I think the BFG is nice too
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Aaron
well, that’s your opinion.
🙁
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Trevor
The BFG is getting a little nicer.
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Mackenzie
The BFG was always nice
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Mackenzie
Aaron, I think the BFG is nice he just took Sophie because he did not want Sophie to tell everyone that she saw a Giant!
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Josiah
that is true.
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that’s what I said.
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Charlotte
I think the BFG has changed and now he is nice but a little clumsy and jolly and he is funny with his talking. And Sophie is probably happy that he is nice
and not going to eat her. But he said that he was nice and that he would keep her from the other giants. So I do think he has changed.
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Lilly
I think you are right because he is clumsy and jolly and funny
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Bryce
I think he is nicer but still a little mean. I think he is nice because he just explained that he would be hunted down but he is mean because instead of the way he yelled at her.
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Trevor
After we read Chapter 5 my opinion changed. First I thought BFG was bad because he took Sophie out of her bed. But then he said to her that if I didn’t take you, you would tell everyone that you saw a giant.
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Charlotte
I think so too
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Adrian
Me Too
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Phelan
I thought that too because if anyone saw him he would be “Put in a zoo to be watched at.”
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Leah
I think that is true too.
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Charlotte
yeah
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Patrick
we read chapter 5 and so far we read that Sophie had to stay with the BFG.
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Trevor
The BFG is not gonna let her out by herself because Sophie would probably try to run back to her house
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Lilly
he is nice now
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Josiah
The BFG is funny, speaks weirdly, nice, can’t remember well, and won’t let Sophie go.
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OWEN
That’s true Josiah.
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Phelan
I think the BFG is known as nice, I thought in the beginning he was a little rude. One example is that he didn’t eat her. I also think it was nice that he let her live with him. Probably because he took her from the place she lives.
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Zinedine
I am happy that Sophie lived
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Phelan
Yes, I am so relieved that the BFG did not eat her.
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Patrick
nice job.
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Zinedine
yes, I learned that the BFG is a BFG. Because they had a conversation and in the conversation, they talked about the mean giants.
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Massimo
Well, what did you think he was?
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Zinedine
he was not acting like the BFG
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Massimo
He was just keeping himself safe.
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Zinedine
I guess
Mackenzie
No, I think that the BFG did not change because I think that he was friendly all along.
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Charlotte
he was really friendly in the beginning, but I think he has changed but now he is nicer
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Lilly
yeah!! that is so true
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Lilly
yeah!! the BFG is still BFG
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Zinedine
I don’t think that Lilly, Mackenzie, Charlotte.
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Chloe
Lilly, what do you mean by “the BFG is still the BFG ?”
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Massimo
I think the BFG is nice and not dangerous like I thought but still a little rude.
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OWEN
at first, I thought the BFG was mean, but now I know he’s nice.
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max
I used to think the BFG was a giant that steels children now I don’t think that at all I think he is pretty nice but a little rude too because he doesn’t talk very nice to Sophie and I think he is nice because he’s not eating her and he is not putting her out to be eaten
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Leah
I think the BFG is nice now because she was in orange and she needed a parent he did not want her to tell anyone and he was being nice to himself, and not letting her get eaten by the other giants.
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Adrian
I agree with you, Leah.
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Lilly
me too I think the BFG is nice now
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Lilly
after reading chapter 5 I was wondering why they eat hummed beans they are people that are really gorse if I was a giant I would not eat people that are just gorse. also, I think the BFG is BFG
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Adrian
My opinion is that I thought the giant was mean to Sophie at first but now that he said that he is not going to eat Sophie, I think he’s kindhearted and fun-loving.
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Leah
ME TOO!!!!!!!!
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winter
mine has changed the BFG has got tine nicer but is still pretty mean
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Simone
yes. I think that he changed because Sophie thought that he was a man but he was nice.
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Nate
I think that the BFG is nice and kind and won’t eat sopie like the other gates. that he is going to be very nice. the BFG and Sophie are going to make a plan to defeat the bad giants. but at first, I thot he was bad.
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Leah
I thought he was mean at first too and I agree with you that they will make a plan to defeat the bad giants too!
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Chloe
Before I thought that the BFG was mean and horrid. But, he is not so mean anymore. The BFG is nicer. In chapter 5 I found out why the BFG took Sophie.
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holly
Yes, I think the BFG chance because the BFG is nice kind, and friendly now.
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Sophia
My opinion did change because I thought the BFG took Sophie. After all, he wanted to protect Sophie from the other giants but he took her because he didn’t want her telling everybody so they would capture him. I think the BFG is rude because he scared her by telling her she has to live with him for the rest of his life and he also scared her and made her think he was going to eat her.
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Lilly
he is not rude he is just protecting his self
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Celia
Yes. Because I thought the BFG was going to eat Sophie but he didn’t but his brothers would she was saved because she was in a secret cave.
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Liam
I thought the BFG would be friends with her
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Leen
Leen
I thought that the BFG is a bad giant but. . . .He is a really nice giant!
And I really started to think about liking this book and giving this book 5 stars!!!
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Esther
Esther-Yes I think the BFG changed because I thought the BFG was bringing Sophie to a scary place but the BFG was nice and brought Sophie to his home
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Sean
Sell
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Alexander
Alexander
My prediction was that Sophie was going to persuade the BFG not to eat her and that he wouldn’t do that in the first place.
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Charles
Charlie my opinion has not I always thought that he was nice loving giant BFG sands for big for b friendly for f giant so no it has not
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Lola
Lola-I thought the BFG was going to be nice and I still think that. Here are 2 examples of why I think that 1. he warned Sophie that if she left she would get eaten by the other giants 2. The BFG saved her from the mean orphanage
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Sean
Sean-I thought that the BFG was mean and was not going to be nice but actually, he was nice
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Kaden
Kaden-I thought the BFG was going to put her in the jar and I thought he was mean but he is nice because he is trying to save the girl from Giants and he never hurt her and when he got her he closed his hand to protect her from getting hurt and he said he doesn’t eat humans.
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Kosisochi
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Yes my opinion has changed from the first few chapters now I think he is really a BFG because he protected her from the other giants and he told her that he would never let the giants see her
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Ashley
Ashley-My opinion has changed because I thought the giant was going to eat Sophie but the giant didn’t eat Sophie. Instead the giant talked with Sophie and cried for her too because the giant felt sadder than ever
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Jasmine
no, because I knew he was good!
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Jahniva
I think he sounds more friendly instead of mean like the others
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Topanga
yes, my stats have changed he is actually a nice giant.
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Cesar
I think it is really funny because of what he is saying To the girl.
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Adyneishia
MY FIRST HAPPY ABOUT THE BFG WAS THAT HE WAS A KIDNAPPING GIANT BUT NOW I KNOW HE GIVES GOOD DREAMS FOR KIDS
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Dominick
yes, it did but at the end of chapter 5, the BFG was a little bit shy because it took a while to tell Sophie what that big trumpet thing was.
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Madison
I thought that the BFG would eat Sophie. Now I know that he is a big friendly giant and he doesn’t eat people.
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Semaj
he is crazy because he said you got some tiny grasshopper ears.
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Ali
yes, I did it is such a good book! I can’t wait to read more!!!!
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Julian
He was kind and friendly, and that is why he is called the BFG
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Aiden
My opinion has not changed I still think he is nice because he has been nice the whole time he is a really big friendly giant so I still think he’s nice.
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Sophia
yes because I thought the BFG was going to eat some.
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David
no, my thoughts about the BFG stayed the same.
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David
I think he is really nice
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Alyse
I did change my opinion about the BFG because I thought he was scary. After all, the BFG is a giant.
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Rachael
I think the BFG is nice now. and at first, I thought the BFG was mean.
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Mary
I thought he was going to take all of them.
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Adyneishia
MY OPINION ABOUT THE BFG WAS THAT HE WAS A CHILD STILLER UNTIL CHAPTER FIVE NOW I KNOW HE IS THE BFG BIG FRIENDLY GIANT
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John
No, because I thought that he was nice because he is called the BFG and I have seen part of it on TV.
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Aiden
My opinion did not change.
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Adyneishia
MY OPINION OF THE BFG WAS THAT HE WAS A CHILD KILLER BUT UNTIL CHAPTER FIVE CAME NOW I KNEW HE WAS THE BFG THE BIG FRIENDLY GINET
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Amelie
Yes. At first, I thought he was a horrible giant that ate kids. Now he is a sweet loving giant.
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A’Zion
I think that he is nice because he bloes dreams into winds
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Adyneishia
MY OPINION IS THE SAME
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Ella
Hi! I’m Ella I LOVE the BFG !!!!!!! I didn’t know it was going to be like this!!! It’s, really, cool!! Smile!!!!
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The BFG Chapter 1-5
Summary
The story begins with the reader meeting Sophie, a young orphaned girl who lies awake in her bed at the orphanage, unable to sleep. She feels uncertain about what could be outside her window.
It is the dead of night. Curious about the world at this dark hour, she peers out her window and spots a “very tall and very black and very thin” giant (11). Sophie realizes he isn’t a human but it takes her a few moments to decide that it must be a “giant person” (13).
She sees the giant blowing something out from a trumpet and into the bedrooms of other children. As she watches him, the giant’s eyes suddenly flash to her, and afraid, Sophie tries to hide under her blanket. She waits under the blanket and tries to scream, but is too frightened.
However, the giant reaches through her window and plucks her out of bed. This time she does scream, but the giant takes her anyway. He carries her in her blanket as he gallops through the village.
Sophie finds the blanket very constricting and the ride very tumultuous. She sees the countryside whizz by at an impossible pace. Sophie curls up inside and worries that the giant will eat her for breakfast.
The giant runs across hills and valleys, rivers and forests until he reaches his home, a cave in Giant Country. Inside, there are many jars stacked up high on shelves. Sophie is still worried that the giant will eat her.
Instead of eating her, the giant picks up Sophie gently and explains that while most giants do eat “human beans” (25), he, the BFG or Big Friendly Giant, does not. He explains the different flavors that human beings have, depending on what country they are from.
Analysis
From the beginning, the story foreshadows the true identity of the giant. Sophie worries that he will eat her for breakfast, but by the very fact that she hasn’t been hurt by him so far, we know that this is unlikely.
The descriptions of the journey are beautiful but describe a country that is flat and yellow. The giant country is full of dead trees. There is nothing hospitable about this place. There is a piece of humor injected when Sophie describes the giant pausing to catch his breath (22). This is the first instance of many where we will see the classic humor of Roald Dahl come into the story.
Sophie continues to worry about being eaten. She imagines the many ways in which she might die until she sees the jars that fill the shelves of the giant’s home. Sophie is still frightened, but now she is even more curious.
While at first, it seems like Sophie may be in danger, the giant named BFG turns out to be nice and friendly. Unfortunately, he is the only nice giant who doesn’t eat humans.
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The BFG Summary
Our story begins during the Witching Hour, a time of night when humans are asleep and creatures from the shadows get to roam the world. Probably not the best time to poke around (if you’re a human), but that’s what a little girl named Sophie is up to. She peeks out the window of her bedroom, which is in an orphanage, and sees a giant blowing what looks like a trumpet into the window across the street. She runs back into her bed, but guess what? It’s too late.
The giant sticks his hand into her window, lifts her, and carries her to a different world. Not your average middle-of-the-night experience.
When he puts her down, she’s on the giant table in a cave. She begs the giant not to eat her, and after the giant gets sidetracked, talking about the many ways giants like to eat humans, he reveals that he is the Big Friendly Giant. In other words, he’s the only giant who doesn’t do that kind of thing.
Way to kill the tension, BFG.
So if he wasn’t looking for a snack, why did the Big Friendly Giant kidnap Sophie? Simple enough: because she saw him. He’s pretty scared of the human world finding out about giants and putting him in a zoo. And he has a point: that’s probably just what would happen. He tells Sophie she’ll have to live with him forever so that she’ll never tell the world about giants. Forever’s no big deal, right?
Surprisingly, Sophie isn’t too into that idea. On the other hand, since she’s from a terrible orphanage, she’s not in a big hurry to return, either.
She’s also curious about the BFG. So she keeps her cool and asks him a bunch of questions. Like how the BFG found her when she was hiding in bed. The BFG says he heard her heart beating. His giant ears, it turns out, are not just for comic effect. He can hear ladybugs walking and ants talking to each other. You’d think that would be distracting when he’s having a conversation, but it seems to work out okay.
Oh, and his other secret: he’s a dream-blowing giant. Every night, he uses his trumpet to blow good dreams into children’s bedrooms.
Pretty cool guy, as it turns out.
The BFG is hungry, so he eats some of a bumpy, spiky vegetable called snow cumber. The BFG is not a snow cumber fan, but it’s the only vegetable that grows in Giant Country, and he doesn’t believe in stealing food from humans.
Sophie tries a piece of snow cumber, too. And spits it right back out. Guess snow cumber is about as tasty as a regular cucumber.
But it turns out to be a good thing the snow cumber pieces are on the table because they’re a perfect place to hide when another giant with the sweet, winning name of the Bloodbottler stomps into the cave. The Bloodbottler heard the BFG talking and thought he captured a human for a pet. How’d he figure that one out? He starts looking around the cave for Sophie so he can eat her.
Sophie manages to scoop seeds out of a larger snow cumber piece and hides directly inside it. But the BFG doesn’t know that and tries to convince the Bloodbottler to eat Snow Cumber. His thinking: maybe the grossness of the snow cumber will drive the Bloodbottler out of the cave.
The result? The Bloodbottler takes a bite with Sophie in it, but luckily, the snow cumber is so gross that he spits her out. Then, as predicted, he runs from the cave.
The BFG and Sophie relieve their stress by drinking Frobscottle—in other words, soda for giants that makes you fart. (It’s okay—“whizzpopping” is considered polite in giant culture.)
As a post-whizz popping treat, the BFG takes Sophie to Dream Country, a misty land where he catches dreams for his collection. He gets a good one but also accidentally bottles a “Troggle humper,” meaning nightmare. See what we mean about language being a little kooky?
The BFG doesn’t want to release the Trogglehumper where it could float into any human’s mind, so he blows it at a sleeping giant named the Fleshlumpeater.
To the BFG and Sophie’s delight, the Fleshlumpeater kicks so much in his dream that all the giants get into a fight.
The BFG takes Sophie back to his cave to show her his dream collection, but soon, the giants are running past the cave. It’s people-eating time. They shout to the BFG that they’re going to England to eat schoolchildren. This, for obvious reasons, upsets Sophie.
Sophie thinks they should go to the Queen of England and ask her to stop the giants, which is a perfectly logical solution for a British citizen under the age of ten to think of. But the BFG thinks she won’t believe them. Which, sorry to say, folks, is probably more accurate as far as royalty is concerned.
So Sophie comes up with a plan. She asks the BFG to mix a dream for the Queen that shows the boys and girls getting eaten and also shows Sophie and the BFG ready to help. Then the BFG will put Sophie down in the Queen’s room, so the Queen will see her when she wakes up and knows that her dream is real.
It’s a long shot, but the BFG goes for it. (Mostly because of the prospect of not having to eat Snozzcumbers ever again.) He mixes the dream and carries Sophie to the palace in his ear. Sophie directs him to the Queen’s back garden, and the BFG blows the dream and sets Sophie on the windowsill of the Queen’s bedroom.
The Queen wakes up in a panic, and then her maid panics when the Queen tells her that she dreamed about boarding school children being eaten. The missing boarding school children made front-page news that morning.
Then they find Sophie in the window, and the maid almost loses her mind. The Queen stays remarkably calm (that’s what Queens do, after all). She even keeps her cool when Sophie calls the BFG to their window. She simply invites them both to breakfast.
Classy.
The butler, Mr. Tibbs, faces the intimidating task of prepping to have a giant dinner in the ballroom. He makes a table out of a ping pong table and grandfather clocks, a chair from a piano, and a chest of drawers. He runs into trouble when the BFG gobbles all his food in one bite, but he keeps his cool (and keeps the chef busy). Way to improvise, royal staff.
The three sit down to dine, Sophie, wearing a borrowed former princess’s dress and the Queen’s sapphire brooch.
The BFG and Sophie tell the Queen about the giants. After calling the King of Sweden and the Sultan of Baghdad to confirm their story about who’s been eaten in the past few nights, the Queen calls the Heads of the Army and the Air Force.
The Heads want to bomb the giants, but the Queen doesn’t believe in killing anyone. So the BFG has the army and air force follow him to Giant Country in the afternoon when the giants are asleep. The men tie the giants up. But it can’t all be that simple: they have trouble tying the Fleshlumpeater, and he wakes up.
He lifts a soldier and is about to eat him, but Sophie saves the day by jabbing the Queen’s brooch into his foot. The Fleshlumpeater drops the soldier, and the BFG convinces him that he was bitten by a snake. The Fleshlumpeater isn’t the most questioning of giants, so he believes the BFG, even when the BFG gets him to close his eyes while the soldiers Tie him up. #DreamTeam.
The soldiers fly the giants back to England and lower them into a deep pit. The BFG gives the royal gardener snow cumber seeds so they’ll have an endless supply of Snozzcumbers to feed to the giants.
The Queen makes the BFG The Royal Dreamblower and has a giant house built for him near her palace, with a little cottage built next door for Sophie. The now-famous BFG gets an education and starts writing about his life. And we learn that he wrote the book that we just read. No wonder it was such a clever mix of English and Giantess, right?
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Chapter summaries
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 runs the place.
Chapter 2: Who?
In the middle of the 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 tried 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 vegetables and it is 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 its 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! Are you there, Runt? I hear you jabbering! Who are you jabbering to, Runt?”‘ The BFG knows straight away that the voice is 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 was 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 realized 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 realized 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 are 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 said ‘Wait!’ He said ‘Hold your horsefeathers! Hold your horsefeathers! Keep your skirt on! Just you wait to see what I am going to bring about!’ He started for the 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 screaming at Jack whom he DREADS!!!
Chapter 14: Dreams
The BFG labels his dream jars and once again reflects on human behavior. He thinks 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 they want. But the BFG said “That is why you are 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 as 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 are moving fast the BFG realizes that there is something in the distance, something familiar, it is 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 are the other giants all galloping back home after their guzzle the BFG said.’ Soon enough they reach England, but soon the BFG says that they are lost Sophie is worried but she then realizes 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 Queen’s bedroom he stops and kneels to be able to be on a 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 Came at last and the lemon-colored 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 listens as the Queen is a little sleep talker and finally, she hears a woman greet the Queen, but the Queen talks 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 had been snatched from their boarding school beds, Sophie slipped down onto the sill and introduced herself, and 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 invited 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 a spade, they also had to fetch the biggest jug they could 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 the 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 too hard, but they finally agree to do the plan.
chapter 22: capture!
When they try and catch the sleeping giant a dangerous incident happens 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.
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The BFG Summary
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What happens in The BFG?
In The BFG, young orphan Sophie meets the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) one night when she can’t sleep. He takes her back to his cave, where she meets nine other giants, all of whom eat humans. To stop the giants, Sophie and the BFG go to the Queen of England, who traps the giants in a pit.
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Extended Summary
As The BFG begins, Sophie lies in bed in an orphanage, unable to sleep. She creeps to the curtains to shut them against the moonlight. It is the Witching Hour, the time when everything is quiet and still, and she is curious about what the world looks like at this time. She sticks her head outside and sees a giant walking toward her carrying a suitcase and a huge, trumpet-like object. He puts something into the trumpet and inserts it into a window. Then he looks up and sees Sophie watching.
Sophie runs back to bed and covers herself with her blanket. After a moment, she peeks out and sees the giant’s eye peeking in. He grabs her out of her bed, blanket and all, and starts to run. His legs have some kind of magical power that makes him travel extremely fast, as if by flight, across the land and maybe the ocean, too. Eventually, he comes to a big mountain. He pushes a round stone away from the side of the mountain and goes inside, rolling the stone to close the opening behind him.
When the giant sets Sophie down, she cowers in fear and begs him not to eat her. He laughs. “Just because I am a giant, you think I am a man-gobbling Cannybull!” he roars. He explains that she is almost right because most giants are cannybulls. His neighbor, Bone-Crunching Giant, loves eating “human beans” from Turkey because they are juicy and delicious. He launches into a long explanation of the flavors of people from around the world. People from Greece taste greasy, people from Wales taste fishy, and so on. Sophie tries to change the subject, but when she fails she decides to face her fate. She asks the giant what kind of people he likes best. He roars:
Sophie demands to know why the BFG snatched her if he is so friendly. He says he had to prevent her from telling people that he exists. Otherwise, people would hunt him down and lock him up in a zoo. Sophie admits that this is probably true, and the BFG says that she will have to live with him forever. He warns her never to go outside without him, or the other giants will eat her up. To prove this, he gives her a peek at his nine cannibalistic neighbors, all of whom eat several people every night. The BFG thinks this is wrong, but he cannot stop them because he is far smaller than the others.
The BFG worries that Sophie’s parents must be missing her by now, and she says she is an orphan. He cries when he hears about her grim life in the orphanage and the punishments she suffered at the hands of Mrs. Clonkers, who runs the orphanage. To change the subject, Sophie asks what he was doing when she first saw him. The BFG explains that he is a dream-blowing giant who spends nights giving children nice dreams. Dreams are invisible creatures that live wild in the air. The BFG uses his enormous ears to hear them flit past. He catches them with a net, “the same way you are catching buttery flies,” and puts them in jars to take to children at night.
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