How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
“Great Scott!” cried the famous voice. “Eighteen girls vanish mysteriously from their beds at Roedean School! Fourteen boys disappear from Eton! Bones are found underneath dormitory windows!” (18.46)
We knew before that children were going to be killed, but the detail about the bones makes the horror of children being eaten feel a bit too real.
Quote #8
At this point, Mr. Tibbs suddenly realized that in order to serve the BFG at his twelve-foot-high-grandfather-clock table, he would have to climb to the top of one of the tall stepladders. What’s more, he must do it balancing a huge warm plate on the palm of one hand and holding a gigantic silver coffee-pot in the other. A normal man would have flinched at the thought of it. But good butlers never flinch. Up he went, up and up and up, while the Queen and Sophie watched him with great interest. It is possible they were both secretly hoping he would lose his balance and go crashing to the floor. But good butlers never crash. (20.37)
Mr. Tibbs, the butler, is both small and impressive in this scene. It reminds us just how funny and odd it would look to have a giant being served by tiny people. Kind of like people being served by ants.
Quote #9
“I is guzzling you nice and slow!” the Fleshlumpeater was saying to the soldier in his hand. “Then I is guzzling ten or twenty more of you midgy little maggots down there! You is not getting away from me because I is galloping fifty times faster than you!” (21.116)
Uh oh, little soldiers. At this moment, it seems like hope could be lost. There is no chance the soldiers could escape the Fleshlumpeater, even if they run. Lucky Sophie’s a quick thinker.