Once she awakens, she will find Sophie on her windowsill and know the dream was true. Finally, the dream will reveal a little girl sitting on her windowsill, who will lead the queen to the BFG. The dream will tell her about the BFG and how he can help her capture the giants. In it, the queen will see giants eating English children. She and the BFG decide to create a dream for the queen. Sophie suggests they tell the Queen of England how the giants are snatching and eating people. The giant’s thrashing during his nightmare ignites a brawl between the nine giants but still does nothing to eliminate them. He even catches one bad dream and gives it to a giant named Fleshlumpeater back home. He shows her how he catches dreams with his net and bottles them, labeling them so he’ll know what each is about. One day after being tossed around by the other giants as they would a toy, the BFG takes Sophie with him to Dream Country. The two begin hatching a plan to get rid of the other giants. After the unsuspecting Bloodbottler leaves, the BFG cleans Sophie off. Bloodbottler takes a bite of the snozzcumber and spits it out, spewing Sophie across the room. He collects them and, with his trumpet, blows good dreams into children’s rooms at night.Ī giant named Bloodbottler enters the BFG’s cave, and Sophie hides inside an unpleasant vegetable called a snozzcumber. He can even hear dreams floating in the air. He explains that he can hear things very keenly with his big ears. She asks him what he was doing in her town, walking the streets at night with a long, thin trumpet and a suitcase. He feels sad for her as she tells him about losing her parents and the sorrows of orphanage life. The BFG tells Sophie if she wants to be safe, she must never let the other giants know she exists. But like all the giants, he has a strange, mixed up way of speaking that sometimes baffles the little girl. While they scour the world each night in search of people to devour, he doesn’t eat humans. While the others are big, smelly, hairy and wear loincloths, he dresses in regular clothes. Unlike the other nine much larger and more horrifying giants that live in Giant Land, the BFG is fairly civilized.

Sophie soon discovers the giant isn’t planning to eat her as she’d feared. She squirms as the giant man holding her hurries to his cave in Giant Land. A gigantic hand reaches through the window and plucks her from her bed. A huge, dark shadow is coming down the street. Eight-year-old Sophie peers out the window of her orphanage one night and sees something terrifying.

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