James and the Giant Peach Essays

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is about a lonely nine-year-old orphan who lives with his two greedy aunts. Their names were Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. What happened in the book is that an old man gave James a bag full of one thousand long slimy crocodile tongues that were boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeball of a lizard. When the tongues were released, they went in the ground and then into a peach tree. There was a peach that started growing

INTRO ( 1 PARAGRAPH) In James and the giant peach the main characters are, James, the old Green Grasshopper, Miss Spider, the Ladybug, the centipede, the Earthworm, the Silkworm, and the Glow-worm. In the book, James lives with his aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who were not nice at all. BEGINNING ( 1 - 3 PARAGRAPHS) James meets a old man in the garden on the hill where he lives with his aunts. The man gives James a paper bag of little green, wiggling, magic crystals, and tells him to pour them into

what you wish for, thought Coraline when the Other Mother asked to stay forever in the fantastic Other World, but there was only one condition—to sew buttons over her own eyes. The creator of the movie The Nightmare before Christmas and James the Giant Peach, has come back with a new installment: this thrilling and exciting stop motion movie Coraline. The first scene shows a doll being torn apart bit by piece. Sewn back together by creepy metallic hand, the new doll is revealed to be a young girl

stories. Roald Dahl is known for entertaining children with his one-of-a-kind writing style. His book, James and the Giant Peach, was about an orphaned boy whose parents were killed by a raging rhinoceros at the local zoo. He then lives with his two aunts, until a giant peach the size of his house is grown in his backyard. James enters the peach and finds human sized insects waiting for him. James did not realize that he would soon have the adventure of his lifetime. This unique story gives a great

Truly successful authors have the ability to convey their view of a place without actually saying it, to portray a landscape in a certain light simply by describing it. In the provided excerpt taken from the opening paragraphs of “Shame,” Dick Gregory does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of detail, old-fashioned language, repetition of words and simple sentences, Gregory reveals the shame within being poor setting the stage for a periodic ending. Beginning in the

plot starts out with the protagonist, James Trotter (then 4 years old), living with his parents in a glamourous cottage by the sea of Dover, in southern England. Until both of James parents were killed during a London shopping trip (by a freed rhinoceros). As a result, he is forced to live with his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge. The two aunts labored James, like the Ugly Stepsisters’ actions towards Cinderella, for nearly four years. When those years pass, James, walking down the street after an argument

What comes to mind when your hear the name Tim Burton? Tim Burton is a well-established and respected American film director. He is best known by his trademark fantasy film such as Edward Scissorhands and the most recent, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. In addition, a lot of thought and cinematic techniques are put into each and every film. Furthermore, Tim Burton creates a story of child-like innocence mixed with mystery and loneliness by using 3 cinematic techniques; non-diegetic music

1990. Oxford, England. He writes for kids, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory become a movie. One of his short stories, landlady, don’t have an end, which gives the readers more to think, to imagine. Although in his story adults represent evil, but there is at least one good adult to fight with other evil adults, especially in BFG (Big Friendly Giants). Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl are both like to write short stories. But they

In this modern era, literature has become a part of the life of people, not only adults but also children. This literature serves not only as a means of entertainment or education but also to organize thought, to test beliefs, to convey what is valued, and to attempt to influence the actions and thoughts of others. It is not surprising that for most of us, early childhood memories include a favorite story. From among the many stories that we have heard or had read to us, there is often one story

when I was in 4th grade. I still read this book whenever I start to get bored reading high ranged books. James and the giant peach is the book that was given to us when we were in 4th grade as a summer assignment. Ronald Dahl book series seemed too challenging for me since I’ve only read small chapter books like ‘Junie B. Jones’ written by Barbara Park. So, I kept reading James and the giant peach over and over to make sure that I was able to fully understand the whole story. Then I fell in love with

Roald Dahl and Ray Bradbury have a lot of similarities. Both authors are very similar because they both like fiction and a different style than other authors and poets. They also write a lot of children’s books. Some of those books are the same genre too. They both write for children and adults, even though you might have not heard of the adult books they make. Both of them also started writing when they were around 11-12 years old. Both of them also wrote a lot of short stories. Roald Dahl is

Roald Dahl was one of my favorite authors while I was growing up. I have read many different books that Roald Dahl has written. The books I have read include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. I like Roald Dahl so much because he always wrote interesting stories. As a kid, it was hard for me to find a book that I could get interested in. One day, my teacher introduced me to the book Matilda, and I loved it. After I read Matilda

Without Musical theater in a child's life, the world be totally different. We live in a world where Musical Theater is a part of all of us, even if some don’t fully understand this yet. “How lucky we are to be alive right now” is something Musical theater taught me. People can learn so much from performing arts. Musical Theater programs for children are important because they provide opportunities for children realize if they have a passion for Musical Theater. Musical theater teaches children

and dark feel. This technique is used in almost all the scenes taking place in Underland. Lastly, low key lighting is also seen in some scenes of “James and the Giant Peach.” Specifically in the scene where James fights the cloud Rhino, the cloud covers the sun and makes the entire scene become dark and almost has a scary feeling to it, exactly what James feels like in the beginning of this scene. All three films support the fact the by using low key lighting Tim Burton creates a darker mood in his

According to ALA Website a common reason for Children’s Books to be challenged or banned is the “unsuited/inappropriate” for age group. Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature by Katherine Paterson. It was written by Paterson and published at the same year in 1977 by Thomas Crowell. While writing the novel Paterson took inspiration from a real event that occurred 1974 during when her son’s friend was struck by lightning. After only a year of being published the novel won the Newbery

Have you ever wondered what a witch looks like? Where does a witch live? What do witches do for a living? I have, and that is why I decided to read The Witches by Roald Dahl. “REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.” So begins the story of The Witches. This book starts out with a little boy and his parents go on a vacation to see his grandmother in Norway. Sadly, they end up going off a cliff and

Coraline is a 2009 dark fantasy stop motion film based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The film follows Coraline, an adventurous girl who discovers her idealised world behind a secret door in the house, unaware of the other worlds sinister secrets. The genre found throughout the film correlates with the dark fantasy genre, which is a subgenre of the fantasy genre. It incorporates darker themes of fantasy into the literary, artistic and cinematic works found in fantasy films. Additionally

Should school administrators be allowed to ban books? Some banned books are good for students to read because books tell the real life stories and struggles of a person and what they had to overcome. Banned books have many controversies around them. When books are challenged enough and with lots of good reasoning they can be banned. Not being able to check out banned books is like being locked up in jail and you can do only certain things. Such as reading in a library and someone is not allowed to

The Giants are actually cannibalistic and the hunger for human flesh. If that’s not enough for you then take the Landlady for an example. The woman that greets Billy Weaver is actually a murderer. He is totally blind to it at first, but later realizes that she

Chalk Animation. Chalk animation or ‘Chalk Talk’ or ‘Lightning Sketches’ was found by James Stuart Blackton. This style of animation was found when Blackton and his film partner Albert E. Smith when both of them worked out a film called ‘Trick Film’ in 1898. It makes them found that a peculiar illusion of movement can be created by stopping the camera. And then they started to moves the object or alter/ modifying the drawing. And then started the camera again. By this discovery, they started