Eric Harvey

The resolution of The BFG is found in the final three chapters: "The Plan," "Feeding Time," and "The Author." After Sophie and the BFG convince the Queen of England that giants really are gobbling...

Before Sophie is kidnapped by the BFG, she lives at an orphanage run by a mean old lady named Mrs. Clonkers. She had very strict rules that included folding your clothes and not getting out of bed...

In the chapter “Tiger Tiger,” Mowgli kills Shere Khan with the help of Grey Brother and Akela. Afterward, Buldeo—the chief hunter of the village—finds them and tries to take Shere Khan’s pelt from...

At the very beginning of The BFG, Sophie sees the BFG walking down her street carrying a suitcase and a long trumpet. He is looking into the second-storey windows of the houses on the opposite side...

Poetry—or more properly, song—is used in The Jungle Book primarily to let the jungle animals speak for themselves. The prose stories are all narrated from a third-person point of view, but the...

The jackal, Tabaqui, is a character who causes a great deal of mischief in The Jungle Book. The wolves, Baloo, and Bagheera hate Tabaqui, and their reasons are given when he first appears in the...