Hi, I need help with essay on Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Download file to see previous pages... "They may be considered as psychol

Hi, I need help with essay on Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

"They may be considered as psychological or political or economic or sociological. They may operate upon opinions, values, information levels, skills, taste, or overt behavior" (Heibert, 2001). In stories such as The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) by Roald Dahl, many of these ideas are included as a 'runty' giant kidnaps a young English girl, Sophie, and reveals an entirely new world to her. This world is one in which giants twice as tall again as the BFG routinely scour the world for tasty human treats to eat at night and then spend their daytimes sleeping in the bright sun of their homeland or fighting with each other. Through his revelations to Sophie, the BFG is clearly not accepted by the other giants and is outcast from them not only because of his physical differences, but more importantly because of his steadfast refusal to eat human 'beans' and his lifelong desire to bring joy to the lives of others.

The BFG differs to a great degree in appearance from his fellow giants, which immediately marks him as distinctly different and thus suspicious. Upon Sophie's first sight of him, he is correctly dressed for nighttime traveling with a large black cloak covering his clothing and carrying a suitcase. Upon arriving in his cave following her kidnapping, "Sophie saw that under the cloak he was wearing a sort of collarless shirt and a dirty old leather waistcoat that didn't seem to have any buttons. His trousers were faded green and were far too short in the legs. On his bare feet he was wearing a pair of ridiculous sandals that for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out" (27). Despite the dilapidated and ill-fitting condition of his clothing, the BFG's apparel is described in much more socially acceptable terms than the clothing of his fellow giants. These are described as being "all naked except for a sort of short skirt around their waists, and their skins burnt brown by the sun" (37). In many ways, this depiction can be compared with the colonialism of England as the small, civilized country attempts to take over management of the much larger, drier and uncivilized countries of Africa and Australia and remains focused on the negative elements of the barbarian and the positive elements of the civilized man. The other giants are savage barbarians contrasted against the civilized society of England. The much smaller BFG, doing what he can to mimic the higher social ideals, is outcast because of his civilized yet smaller state. As a native who has dedicated himself to the service of the white man complete with adopting his habits and customs, the BFG is seen as something of a traitor to his own kind regardless of his motivations or values.

One of the first things that is learned about the BFG is not that he is smaller and better dressed than the other giants, but that he strongly differs from them on the question of diet. Sophie assumes, and is largely correct, that the primary staple of the giant diet is a human being. In terror, she begs the BFG not to eat her when he mentions how hungry he is and the two go into a long discussion about the culinary delights of humans.