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Roald DahlA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Short Answer
1. Consider the word “giant.” What image comes to mind? Does this word have a positive or negative connotation? Can you think of a piece of literature, film, or television show where one of the characters is a giant? If so, how is this character depicted in the story?
Teaching Suggestion: This Short Answer question invites students to consider the themes of The Victory of the Underdog, The Power of Friendship, and The Joy of Silliness and Imagination within the context of the novel’s motif of giants. In the realm of folklore, giants are often characterized as antagonistic creatures; however, Dahl departs from this presumption by developing the protagonist of the BFG (i.e., Big Friendly Giant) as someone who does not eat humans, unlike the rest of his kind in Giant Country. Students may use the first link below in their initial research for answering this question. While the second link is more of a teacher-facing resource, it may be beneficial to guide students through relevant portions of the text.
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