Roald Dahl’s Heroes and Villains

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Literacy and English: Reading: First: I can share my thoughts about structure, characters and/or setting, recognise the writer’s message and relate it to my own experiences, and comment on the effective choice of words and other features I can still picture it in my head – a tiny wizened evil creature with blue phlegm presiding over a sea of bald, square-footed women. Brr, terrifying. Tarantino couldn’t better it. Witches are demons, and thus they have a demonic set of powers and a demonic hatred of humanity. Thus their magic may come from Satan himself. Helga suggests this at one point by saying "Nobody has seen the Devil, but we all know he exists, don't we?". All Witches originally come from Norway, and thus spread everywhere. There is a secret society of witches in every country, and they do not know each other. For instance, an English witch will know all other English witches, and so on. It is illegal for witches to communicate with foreign witches. SPAG: English Y2: Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in English Appendix 1)

Plus, having telekinetic powers, and using them to thwart evil, Matilda had a bit of a superhero quality to her. She’d have fit very well into The X-Men I think.” Matilda was published in 1988 GeorgeInvent terrific heroes and revolting villains to star in your story with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! You don't seem to understand that witches are not actually women at all. They look like women. They talk like women. And they are able to act like women. But in actual fact, they are totally different animals. They are demons in human shape. That is why they have claws and bald heads and queer noses and peculiar eyes, all of which they have to conceal as best they can from the rest of the world. Roald Dahl's Creative Writing will spark your creativity, build your confidence and inspire you through the wonderful worlds of Roald Dahl's best loved stories! Being a fellow bookworm at the time, I could relate to her desire to sink herself into imaginary worlds and escape hum-drum reality. But there was also something wonderful about the way she was continually able to outsmart and stand-up to the unjust adults around her – from her hideous parents to the tyrannical Trunchbull.

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