Climax (Crisis, Turning Point) So Crazy It Just Might Work Sophie knows she can’t stay in Giant Country forever, but it takes knowing that the other giants are eating children every night to push her to act. Even a Big Friendly Giant doesn’t cancel out the bad parts of that situation. Now add the threat of being eaten if you get discovered by other giants. You want conflict? Try being stuck in Giant Country with terrible food for the rest of your life. Rising Action (Conflict, Complication) Fee Fi Fo Fum So when the BFG carts her off to a new world, the norphanage situation fades into the background as we discover a whole new existence.

Sophie’s a practical girl, and doesn’t seem all that scarred by the experience. Sounds rough, but that’s all we really hear about it before it’s off to Giant Country. Clonkers who locked them in the basement when they were bad. The place was ruled by a woman named Mrs. She lived in an orphanage (or “a norphanage,” in BFG-speak) with nine other girls. Mostly, we hear about Sophie’s prior life through her dialogue, when she’s already hanging out with the BFG. We don’t get much of the initial situation: the conflict in this book happens almost immediately. The fact that he secretly wrote us his own story is like icing on the mystical cake.Exposition (Initial Situation) A Norphanage The BFG has already surprised and impressed us with its inventive magic about a giant who understands music and hears dreams. It’s a fair guess that Dahl went with that ending to add yet another fun layer of magic to the story. So there’s that.īut don’t worry, there’s more to it than that. Why the twist? The better question might be: why not? The twist is straight-up proof that the BFG has definitely improved his language. Or as he would call it, “wigglish.” So the ending is definitely a surprise. The narration has referred to the BFG in third person, and in dialogue, the BFG speaks his own brand of English. There’s no way we could have guessed this ahead of time. But the ending also comes with an added twist: we find out that The BFG is (supposedly) the author of the book.

The killer giants are put in a pit where they can’t eat humans anymore, and Sophie and the BFG get a sweet setup in neighboring houses. The ending of The BFG is the happily-ever-after type.

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