Wednesday, December 1, 2010

James and the Giant Peach

Hey, I read a super awesome book called James and the Giant Peach. The author of this book is Roald Dahl and the genre of this book is fantasy. After the tragedy of having his two parents die, James is sent with his evil Aunts. They are asking him to do chores, make dinner, clean toilets, tend to their ugly garden, and yell at him. Whatever it is, James is not treated fairly. One day James goes to the shop to get away from his awful aunts. He sees a little man. The man asks him if he is troubled and James says yes. The man hands him a brown paper bag ful of tiny green things. The man tells him to eat one when he needs to. James runs back to his aunt's house and as he is running he trips and falls. Almost all the green things escape. He tries to catch them, but they bury into the ground as fast as James could put his hand down. He made it back. The next day James hears his aunts screaming. One of the peaches in his peach tree is growing. In twenty minutes the peach is the size of three busses. It stopped growing.
People payed to see the peach. After the aunts peach buisiness day was over James was hungry and got sent out for the night because of it. he went to the peach and saw a hole in it. He started to crawl into it. When he got in he saw seven giant bugs. A centipede, a grass-hopper, a spider, an earth worm, a lady bug, a silk worm, and a glow worm. James was terrified, but they told him about the little green things and how they looked so tasty to them so they ate one and became so big.
Once he became settled the centipede started to chomp away at the stem of the peach. The peach finally started rolling down the hill and landed into the ocean. It was sailing away. They were all so happy to be away from the two aunts.
Sharks started coming and tried to get at the peach. James had Miss Spider and the silk worm spin thread for James because he would lasso seagulls and tie them to the peach stem so they would float away from the sharks. And he did. The peach was flying away with little damage. They floated into deep clouds and even a cloud cave.
Then they came to a big heap of clouds. They were men. they were shuveling piles of cloud into a pile and roled them into balls. They threw them down to Earth. It was hail and snow. They also had a big, curved cloud that they tied to ropes. the cloud men were painting it. It was a rainbow. They lowered it down to Earth with the ropes.
Then suddenly the centipede started shouting at them and calling them names to see if they could here them. They all turned around and threw every thing they could at the peach. Paint buckets, paint brushes, step-ladders, stools, saucepans, frying pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil, anything the cloud men could get. One of the paint buckets fell on the centipede and all of his legs were stuck including his whole body.
After a while, it started to rain. The cloud men were using big drums to sound like thunder. Finally the peach was safely away. The sky was now clear. All of the paint on the centipede had washed off. They all looked downand saw buildings, small cars, tiny people. It was a city. It was New York City. They were all so happy. They all wanted to go down. Centipede started chomping threads of seagulls, one at a time. They were slowly going down.
Down below people thought that the giant peach was the worlds largest bomb and flead down into subway stations. Police and fire fighters arrived. One police officer called the president and asked for help. Then up above, the daily plane from Chicago to New York flew over head about twenty feet above the peach. The plane ripped through all of the silk threads and the peach started tumbling down.
People in the city gasped and screamed. James and his friends held on to the peach stem and said good by to each other. All of the buildings had flat square tops, the one they were about to land on did not it was the Empire State Building. They landed on it. Fire fighters raced to their rescue with harnesses and a crane. They all made it down safely and so did the peach.
They had a parade for James and his friends. One girl asked James if she could have some of the peach. He let every one have some. After the parade, the peach was gone all exept for the pit. The pit was made a national monument and it was also James's new house. All you have to do is knock on his door and he will show you the room where he first met his new best friends.

5 comments:

Viktor The Chocobo said...

wow, long post. I have this book at my house but i never thought of reading it. My mom read it awhile ago but it looks borring to me. It looks like a funny book though, after i finish mine i might give it another try.

Andi said...

Hey Moira! What a long post! I think you wrote the whole story, lol. Did you really enjoy? I think I might want to try the book out. :-)

Noah :) said...

I'm with andi and viktor on this one. SUPER LONG POST! DO you get a world record for that? Anyway, i though you added a ton of detail and i will look towards reading that next.

Unknown said...

That was long. The details you added make me want to read it. I've heard of it, but never seen it. Do you know where i can find it?

Stephanie said...

wow moira that is a long post although i have already read this book you gave so much detail i would never be able to type all of that!!!!