How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
“You is talking rommytot,” the BFG said, growing braver by the second. He was thinking that if only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive vegetable, the sheer foulness of its flavour would send him bellowing out of the cave. “I is happy to let you sample it,” the BFG went on. “But please, when you see how truly glumptious it is, do not be guzzling the whole thing. Leave me a little snitchet for my supper.” (9.21)
The BFG has probably never heard the term “reverse psychology,” but he’s definitely good at it. By begging the Bloodbottler not to eat too much of the snozzcumber, he gets the giant to play right into his hands (and right into his really gross vegetable).
Quote #2
“I should like to find a way of disappearing them, every single one.” “I’d be glad to help you,” Sophie said. “Let me see if I can’t think up a way of doing it.” (9.57-58)
Sophie’s eager to stop the giants, but what’s so impressive is how she speaks. She’s totally confident in her ability to come up with a plan, even though the BFG has lived with this situation basically as long as he’s been alive and has never thought of anything. Not every eight-year-old has got that kind of confidence.
Quote #3
He crept on his toes toward the ugly brutes. They were still snoring loudly. They looked repulsive, filthy, diabolical. The BFG tip-toed around them. He went past the Gizzardgulper, the Bloodbottler, the Meatdripper, the Childchewer. Then he stopped. He had reached the Fleshlumpeater. He pointed at him, then he looked down at Sophie and gave her a big wink.
He knelt on the ground and very quietly he opened the suitcase. He took out of it the glass jar containing the terrible nightmarish trogglehumper. (13.20-21)
The narrator takes us through every second of this scene as if it were a comic strip. The BFG lets us (and Sophie) know what his idea is before he acts it out, and gives a big wink to prove it. Payback time.