How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
“For years and years I is sitting here on this very rock every night after night when they is galloping away, and I is feeling so sad for all the human beans they is going to gobble up. But I has had to get used to it. There is nothing I can do. If I wasn’t a titchy little runty giant only twenty-four feet high then I would be stopping them. But that is absolutely out of the window.” (15.8)
Being only twenty-four feet tall, the BFG is pretty limited. But think of the parallel: how many injustices are accepted by humans who think there’s nothing they can do about them?
Quote #8
“I is never showing myself to human beans.”
“Why ever not?”
“If I do, they will be putting me in the zoo with all the jiggyraffes and the cattypillars.”
“Nonsense,” Sophie said.
“And they will be sending you straight back to a norphanage, the BFG went on. “Grown-up human beans is not famous for their kindnesses.” (15.15-19)
The BFG seems to think Sophie’s orphanage is about the same as a zoo—which he’s sure is where he’d end up if the human beans found out about him. He’s right, in a way. They are both forms of captivity. Even if in zoo, he’d be looked at all the time, and Sophie is pretty hidden from the world in her orphanage.
Quote #9
The BFG made a rush at the Fleshlumpeater, but the colossal fifty-four-foot-high giant simply knocked him over with a flick of his free arm. At the same time, Sophie fell off the BFG’s palm on to the ground. Her mind was racing. She must do something! She must! She must!” (21.115)
This is how Sophie feels about injustice. When something bad is about to happen, she feels an obligation to try and stop it. Don’t forget: not everyone feels the same way as Sophie. There are people whose reaction to seeing an angry giant would be to run.