The BFG

Plot Summary

A young girl called Sophie lives in an orphanage in London. She stays up at night due to insomnia. On one such she sees an elderly giant outside her window. The giant captures her and takes her to his Giant Country in order to keep the existence of his kind a secret. After learning that she has insomnia and cannot dream, he manages to put her to sleep. He gives her a nightmare about she trying to escape and being eaten by a giant while doing so. She stays back.

When Sophie wakes up the leader of the man-eating giants called the Fleshlumpeater, he enters the BFG's home and smells a human. Sophie hides in a vegetable called a snozzcumber. On remembering that he never eats vegetables, the cruel giant throws the snozzcumber down and leaves.

The BFG gives Sophie new clothes and has a strange reaction to her finding a red jacket. He puts Sophie in a treehouse and leaves to capture dreams in bottles. Sophie convinces BFG to take her to his Dream Country - but as they leave, they accidentally wake up the man-eating giants. They throw the BFG around and bully him. Sophie tells the BFG that he should not allow the other giants to treat him that way. The two reach the Dream Country and catch a dream each: a good dream about Sophie and a nightmare about committing unforgivable crimes. The two then head to London to spread good dreams to sleeping children. While doing so, Sophie realises that she has lost her blanket. The BFG figures that the blanket will draw the man-eating Giants to Sophie and thus decides to drop her at the orphanage.

BFG recalls that the last human child he took and raised was discovered and eaten by the other giants. Sophie refuses to stay back at the orphanage and accomplices BFG back to the Giant country.

Sophie finds the home of the last human to live with the BFG. She leaves his jacket on his bed and finds a portrait of Queen Victoria amongst his belongings. From this she devises a plan to forge a nightmare and give it to the Queen. The nightmare consists of giants eating the children of England, the British Army fighting the giants, and Sophie appearing on her windowsill. They head to the palace where upon waking from her nightmare, the Queen finds the BFG and Sophie outside the palace. They inform the Queen and her servants Mary and Mr. Tibbs that the child-eating beasts in her dream are indeed real and must be stopped before they cause any harm to her subjects. After a large breakfast they all enjoy, The Queen soon dispatches soldiers to Giant Country.

The giants are all trapped on an isolated island where numerous crates of snozzcumber seeds are left with them much to their anger

Sophie begins living in the Queen's palace upon Mary adopting her while the BFG returns to Giant Country where he begins growing a wide variety of vegetables inspired by his time in England.