"Then how does the big friendly giant catch them?"

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"Then how does the big friendly giant catch them?" by Mind Map: "Then how does the big friendly giant catch them?"

1. “It’s a miracle,” my father was saying. “It’s an absolute miracle.” He was staring at them in a kind of trance.

2. I cannot possibly describe to you what it felt like to be standing alone in the pitchy blackness of that silent wood in the small hours of the night. The sense of loneliness was overwhelming, the silence was as deep as death, and the only sounds were the ones I made myself.

3. Danny the Champion of the World, is, in actuality, my most loved Roald Dahl book. Since while Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was fun, and Matilda, exciting, and James and the Giant Peach, unusual, and The BFG, clever, Danny the Champion of the World is, in single word, warm. Of all of Roald Dahl’s fantastical kids’ stories, this one is the most human. There are no exaggerated characters, no capricious spots, no forces and enchantment, and not a thing that suspends conviction.

4. “Your granddad,” he said, “my own dad, was a magnificent and splendiferous poacher. It was he who taught me all about it. I caught the poaching fever from him when I was ten years old and I’ve never lost it since. Mind you, in those days just about every man in our village was out in the woods at night poaching pheasants. And they did it not only because they loved the sport but because they needed food for their families. When I was a boy, times were bad for a lot of people in England. There was very little work to be had anywhere, and some families were literally starving. Yet a few miles away in the rich man’s wood, thousands of pheasants were being fed like kings twice a day. So can you blame my dad for going out occasionally and coming home with a bird or two for the family to eat?”