The Witches door Roald Dahl

Summary (Samenvatting) :

The main character, Luke is an eigth year old orphan who lives with his Grandmother in England. His Grandmother ( who he calls Grandmamma ) loves to tell him about witches and how dangerous they are. Three weeks before they go on vacation to Norway but Grandmamma gets sick and she must go to the coast of England for her health. Because Luke is so sad that they aren’t going on a vacation to Norway, he gets two mice from his Grandmamma and he called them William and Mary. As he was practicing with William and Mary for his White Mouse Circus he ended up in the middle of the Witch Meeting of England with the Grand High Witch herself! He couldn’t escape, gets caught and the Grand High Witch gives him some Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker, what turns him in to a mouse. He escapes together with Bruno Jenkins, a fat lazy spoiled boy who also is turned into a mouse and they run to Grandmamma. She is not shocked because they are standing two talking mice before her, but she is rather sad because she new this day would happen. Together they made a plan to steal the Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker and how to pour the Formula Mouse-Maker in the soup of the witches. Because Luke is a mouse he is very small an he can get in to the kitchen, pours the Formula Mouse-Maker in the soup and get out save and well. Al the witches eat their soup and they turned in to mice five minutes later. They gave Bruno Jenkins back to his parents and told them their fat, lazy son is turned into a mouse. Luke and his Grandmamma moved back to Norway again and promise each other to destroy all the witches in the whole world and then die happely ever after.

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Leuke stukjes en citaten uit het boek :

This smelly brrat, this filthy scum
This horrid little louse
Vil very very soon become
A lovely little mouse!
Down vith children! Do them in!
Boil their bones and fry their skin!
Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!
Brreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!
Offer chocs vith magis powder!
Say “Eat up!” then say it louder.
Crrram them full f sticky eats,
Send them home still gussling sveets.
And in the morning little fools
Go marching off toseparate schools.
A girl feels sick and goes all pale.
She yells, “Help! I think I’m grrrowing fur!”
Another shouts, ‘Vee look like frrreaks!
There’s viskers growing on our cheeks!”
A boy who vos extremely tall
Cries out, ‘Vot’s wrong? I”m grrowing small!”
Four tiny legs begin to sprrrout
From everybody rrround about.
And all at vunce, all in a trrrice,
There are no children! Only MICE!
In every school is mice galore
All rrrunnig rrrround the school-rrroom floor!

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