James And The Giant Peach
(Roald Dahl)
From high on the lonely hill where James lived with his two unpleasant, parsimonous Aunts, he could see miles of English meadow and verdant woodland. And on a particularly clear day, he could espy a seaside home, once his own, where friends and fun, and two loving parents warmed his days. Then tragedy struck while at the London Zoo. A calamity that changed laughter to woe - as a humongous rhino broke free of his constraints, and devoured James' kind parents. Now James Henry Trotter lives a solitary and solemn life, with Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, who are heartless and harsh, and given to disparage and dictates of endless chores. One stifling morning something strange occured. Amid hard work and the heat, a secret was revealed in the garden, well concealed within the laurel bushes. A be-whiskered ,diminutive, wizened fellow gave James a bag of glowing pebbles and admonished him to use care in planting the magic rocks. James in his excitement, fled and tripped, and flung the contents of the bag upon the ground beneath the barren peach tree. The miraculous happened - a peach appeared and begun to grow, and grow, and GROW, until it topped the highest branches. Inside the peach, six jumbo-sized crawlers; Grasshopper, Ladybug, Centipede, Earthworm, Silkworm, and Spider waited to befriend James as he entered the peachy domain. And with a loud SNAP of the stem, the adventure begins... The peach rolls down the hill, smashing the vile Aunts, and plummets into the sea. Soon sharks swarm and attack, forcing James to create an imaginative escape plan. Spider and Silkworm provide strands of string that James uses to lasso seagulls, five-hundred-and-two seagulls, to be exact, and they set sail across the Atlantic. As night falls, and clouds close in, another foe is discovered. Cloud-men are constructing hailstones, and Centipede angers them, inciting an icy bombardment. Luckily, the seagulls fly the friends through the cloudbank, but not before the peach is damaged. Up ahead James spots another cluster of clouds, and Cloud-men who are painting a lovely rainbow. The peach collides with the rainbow, nearly ending in disaster. James untangles the peach lasso ropes by having Centipede bite loose the strands, freeing some seagulls and causing the peach to descend, and once again evade the Cloud-men's wrath. A sprawling, skyscrapered city eventually appears, and James realizes they have traveled to America. The friends embark upon a landing and the peach swiftly spirals downward to doom, and the center of New York City! They are spared when the Empire State Building spire spears the peach, and spares their life. The citizens come out to meet James and his unusual crew, and they become celebrities. The Mayor welcomes them, and honors them with a parade. The city's children become over-jubilant and swarm the peach, and and eat every tasty morsel - except for the gigantic pit. And that pit became a monument, and the home of James Henry Trotter, sitting safe and secure in Central Park. And Henry never again lacked friends. THE END
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