Making Connections:
Fantastic Mr.Fox
Text to World:
The connection between this story and this world is that in life, there are horrible, selfish people like the three farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. As well as people who are kind and caring to both their own families and other people.
Text to Text:
Fantastic Mr.Fox reminds me of a book I read which is also about a fox and a farmer. The plot was different, but the similarities were that the farmer tried to catch and kill the fox.
Making Connections:
The BFG
Text to Self:
In the chapter 'The Witching Hour', it says "Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right on to her pillow. The other children in the dormitory had been asleep for hours. Sophie closed her eyes and lay quite still. She tried very hard to doze off. It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The house was absolutely silent. No voices came up from downstairs. There were no footsteps on the floor above either." In my life, I've always had nights like those where everyone is asleep already and I can only hear silence. I try to fall asleep with all my might, but the light from the moon and the thought of thing that happened on that day makes it harder for you to fall asleep.
Text to Text:
The use of vocabulary like Snezzcumbers, Bonecrunching Giant, whopsey, whiffling, earbursting, scrummdidlyumptious, uckyslush, bundongle, babblement, whooshey, gobblefunking, snitching, frobscottle, wizzpoppers, etc. Reminds me of the other books that Roald Dahl wrote such as Charley and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, George's Marvellous Medicine, etc.