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James And The Giant Peach
Scenes at a zoo.
Narrator: One day, at the zoo, a Rhinoceros escapes from his enclosure.
Narrator appears: The rhinoceros goes on a tear through downtown London. The rhinoceros on his rampage kills a couple who were the parents of a ten year old boy.
Narrator: This boy is sent to live with his Aunts, a fat one called Sponger, and a thin one called Spiker. If he is not sent to the basement, he is not able to stray beyond the yard of his Aunts.
One day, he saw a magical green worm. This worm gave James a white paper bag full of dancing colour sparkles. The worm said, "Whoever eats these sparkles, a wonderful thing will happen to him, but be careful, the magic will work on whoever eats the sparkles be it human, plant, or animal."
James ran back to the house. He tripped. The sparkles fell out of the bag onto the ground. James thought, I am sunk.
That evening, a strange plant grew in the garden.
A giant Peach.
A line up forms around the fence of the house as Sponger and Spiker charge admission for people to see the Giant Peach. "Terrifico." Aunt Sponger cried. "Hallelujah" Aunt Spiker said.
That night, James walked towards the Peach. A hole appeared below the peach, a faint light glowing within. He climbed up the hole of the peach and in the distance, was a door.
He opened the door and saw the most incredible sight. He thought of Howard Carter the Egyptologist. What do you see? The most wonderful things.
What James saw was a roomful of the most wonderful and at the same time, the most hideous beasts. He saw a gargantuan grasshopper, a spider, a ladybug with nine spots on her scarlet shell, a centipede, an earthworm, a silkworm, and a glow worm. Of course glow worms are never worms. Glow worms are lady fireflies without wings.
The Peach rolled down the hill.
The Peach rolled into the ocean. The peach sailed in the ocean for a few days. The group sat outside, on top of the peach. That is when they began to notice sharks attacking the peach.
"I have an idea." James said. We need to get the spider to spin some web. Then we have to lasso the rope, like a cowboy around the neck of one of the seagulls."
When enough seagulls have been roped, the Peach began to fly away. It flew above the ocean, like an airplane, it flew above the clouds and they encountered a strange flyover zone where there were cloud men. These strange celestial beings of cloud seemed to dance in the ether and then they pelted the peach with hailstones.
The Peach flew on to a city. At last, the Peach rested on the spire of a building.
Airplanes flew around the Peach, and the heroes appeared above on top of the Peach. The next day, they were on the front page of the newspapers.
Years later, James as an old man greeted people at the front of his house, which is the now withered seed of the Peach whose flesh had long been eaten or otherwise rotted off. He greeted visitors who visited the museum. Visitors were offered a cup of tea when they entered the museum. And they were always shocked at what they saw for sitting in the chair was the last surviving animal and that is the grasshopper, now very old. But otherwise alive and greeting visitors.
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James and the Giant Peach is a story in the Roald Dahl series of after he decided to become a writer of children's books.
He started to write when he was a boy. However, he wrote his first novel about his experiences as a pilot during the Second World War.
Later on in his life, he reinvented himself as a writer of children's literature including as titles such luminaries as James and the Giant Peach, Danny the Champion of the World.
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Dean and Randene. The first picture that I took of myself on my new camera.
Kodak C813.
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