MOBI Ò The Witches ´ Roald Dahl
This is not a fairy tale This is about real witches Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks They don't even wear black cloaks and hats They are vile cun Warning Extremely Long Review and Childhood StorytellingWhen I was ten or eleven I was sitting in the playground at summer camp minding my own business and reading this book when one of the playground supervisers came and asked me what I was reading When I showed it to him his eyes got wide and he took the book from me Then he went to the trash can and started ripping it up page by page And he washed his hands afterwards to get rid of the filth It was a library book He was just going on and on about how young children shouldn't read about witchcraft because they might want to become witches etc etc If you've read the book you know that Dahl doesn't exactly idealize witches Well when my dad came to pick me up he let this guy have it yay Dad and I got a popsicle So the story ends well but I always remember this incident when I see this book And because of that this book is what I think of when I consider censorship and how detrimental it is to our society I barely remember what happens in The Witches but I love it simply because of what it represents to me
Roald Dahl ´ The Witches READER
The WitchesU'd better find out uickly because there's nothing a witch loathes uite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them I am not of course telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch All I am saying is that she might be one It is most unlikely But here comes the big but not impossible After the tragic loss of his parents a young boy goes to live with his much beloved grandmother He soon learns of the impossible witches exist And they're sole joy in life is to find ways to make children disappear Preferably in nasty and mysterious waysWe soon discovers how to recognize a witch they have clawed hands which they hide under gloves they disguise their toe less feet in pointy shoes and their spit has a faint blueish sheen They excel at hiding in plain sight REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS His fiercely protective grandmother does her absolute best to protect her grandson arming him with enough knowledge to recognize and evade capture of one terrifyingly normal looking neighborhood witch During one summer vacation things becomes significantly hairythan expected An absolute delight to read Dahl truly outdoes himself combining the right amount of sweet and scary The grandmother grandson relation was absolutely splendid Highly highly recommended It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you Audiobook CommentsLike the other Dahl books this is a full production presentation of the novel Plenty of side effects and the characterizations were wonderful though the Grand Witch was a bit difficult to understand I felt like such an oldie by having to rewind it to hear what she said The Finer Books Club 2018 Reading Challenge A banned bookYouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Snapchat mirandareads Happy Reading