The BFG

The GVR (Large kind Reus, original title The BFG) is a children's book by Roald Dahl. There is also a movie made. Dahl wore this book on to his eldest daughter, Olivia, who in 1962 at the age of seven died from measles. ==Content[ Edit] == The book is about Sofie, a girl from an orphanage. One evening she can't sleep. She thinks the witching hour and secretly looks outward (in her orphanage, you may not get out of bed at night). She can't sleep because of the moonshine that appears in her eyes, so they close the Windows. She sees a giant outdoor stand. He hears Sofies heart thumping-he has terrible good ears and kidnaps her. No one should see a giant, otherwise it would stand the world on its head. He takes her with an incredible speed to his cave in giant country. Sofie thinks the giant hair will eat them but just this one giant turns out to be the GVR: the large kind Reus. He speaks a language quite vreemdklinkend because he has learned from just one book, Oliver Twist, that he ever once more than seventy years ago has "borrowed" from one's children's room.

The GVR captures both beautiful dreams as nightmares in dreamland and stores these in jars. All blowing on a long trumpet he shares the beautiful dreams back out to sleeping children, the nightmares he blows at home on. he eats only snoskommers which actually quite dirty ("smeerlijk", "walgzaam", "vuillappig"), but there is nothing else in Giants country. He wants to steal from people and no food he wants to eat all certainly not people or animals that he finds pathetic.

He tells Sofie while enjoying a fropskottel about the other nine giants that in giant country. That are not so friendly. That his "mensenpeuzelende cannibals". They speak a confused Dyslexic lingo and are twice as big as the GVR. Every night they pull out to sleeping "man baked goods" to Rob and to munch. If they have the warm, they go on the food as if the North Pole Eskimos ice lollies are, at great hunger games them a few Norwegians inside. But they prefer to eat small children that are tasty, tender.

Because the GVR not so great and he is quite common as the other Giants bullied. Out of boredom they do ball games with him as he once let out of revenge a ball. nightmare (Trolleklopper) loose on the terrible Vleeslap eater, one of the horrible giants. This creates a terrible Brawl between the nine giants. But, they will never kill each other, tells the GVR. They fight only with each other. Giants are not as horrible as people.

As the Giants in the evening "wegsjeezen" to baked goods to go "schranzen man" touches Sofie in panic. She wants to go warn everyone, including the Queen of England, but that the GVR claims that no man would believe her. In addition, she would then be returned to the orphanage and the GVR fears that he then at the Zoo would lock up.

Sofie devises a plan: they must breathe the Queen a dream. They mix a special dream from the trillions of dreams that has collected the GVR. The dream is about reality, all heinous acts of the Giants, the existence of the GVR, which can explain where the Giants are located and on the existence of Sofie, who can tell where the GVR is clogged. That night they go to Buckingham Palace where the Queen giving the dream at the giant and Sofie hides in her room. The Queen and her Chambermaid are surprised when they find Sofie in the room the next day, but given the Queen dreamed about her and also the GVR pops up, she believes that what they dreamed reality can be. The Queen turns off the army and the air force in. During the afternoon nap of the nine Giants they are overpowered. The soldiers bind them with chains and ropes. They are to nine large helicopters hung, brought to England and thrown in an immense pit. The GVR makes their buoys loose, they eat not of the same species. The rest of their lives they get for punishment just run snoskommers to eat.

The giant and Sofie each receive a house next to the Palace of the Queen. Sofie learns the giant decent talk and games, so well, in fact that he writer is. The first book he writes is about Sofie and himself: The GVR. ==Operations[ Edit] == In 1989, an animated film based on the book.

There is also a play of this book made with Ricky Koole as Sofie. On January 29, 2011, the Flemish theatre version premiered in Ghent, with Lulu Aertgeerts as Queen, Jolijn Abbasi as Sofie and Jeroen M in the title role.