The Magic Finger door Roald Dahl

English book report
Title: the magic finger
Author: Roald Dahl
Genre: fantasy
Number of pages: 57 pages
Time and place: It plays in the home of the family Gregg. It plays also in the wood.

Summary:

In the farm next to our farm lives the family Gregg. They father and sons like hunting. Every Saturday morning they hunt. Then they shoot duck and deer. If there something is I can’t understand it’s hunting. On a Saturday morning I saw Mr. Gregg and his sons with a dead deer. Then I did something I promised never do again. I put my magic finger up. The last time I did it was my teacher Mrs. Winter chanced in a cat. The next morning when Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Gregg woke up they had wings and are so small as ducks and their sons also. Their sons flew out the window and so did Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Gregg. When they came back they saw four duck so big a people in their house. They said that it is their house but the ducks said no this is now our house. Mr. Gregg decided that they have to build a nest. They build a nest and sleep there the whole night. When they woke up the saw the ducks with guns. They will shoot the family Gregg. Mr. Gregg begs of they do not want to shoot them. The ducks said alone if you promise never shoot any animal again. Mr. Gregg promised that and the next morning when they woke up they are just again people. And the decided that the chance there last name in egg.

own opinion:

I agree with the girl because I also think that hunting is pathetic. It was funny that the ducks were people and the family were ducks. I think the family Gregg learnt their lesson. But I found it too much that they changed their last name in egg. I am not agree with the girl that she didn’t put their magic finger up. Because if she didn’t the family Gregg where still hunting on ducks and deer. I found it still sad for all the animals that are killed.

Assignment: quiz

1 In what changes the family Gregg?
2 why is the girl mad on the family Gregg?
3 What is the last name of the family Gregg at the end of the story?
4 In what changes Mrs. winter?
5 How old is the girl?
6 How called the girl?
7 On which day are Mr. Gregg and his sons hunting?
8 What put the girl up in the air whereby the family chanced?
9 What promise Mr. Gregg?
10 Who are the neighbors of the girl?

Answers
1 in ducks
2 because the hunting on ducks and deer
3 family egg
4 in a cat
5 eight years
6 no idea that tells she not
7 Saturday
8 Her finger
9 That he never any more will hunting
10 The family Gregg