![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The next morning, the BFG takes Sophie to Dream Country to catch more dreams, but is tormented by the other giants along the way notably by their leader, the Fleshlumpeater, the largest and most fearsome. When Sophie announces she is thirsty, the BFG treats her to a fizzy drink called frobscottle, which causes noisy flatulence: this is known as Whizzpopping. Sophie hides in the snozzcumber, unknown to the BFG, and the BFG offers the snozzcumber to the Bloodbottler, hoping that its foul taste will repel him from the area whereupon the Bloodbottler spits out the snozzcumber and Sophie, and leaves in disgust. Sophie and the BFG quickly become friends but Sophie is soon put in danger by the sudden arrival of the Bloodbottler Giant, who suspects the BFG of harboring Sophie. ![]() Because the BFG refuses to eat people or steal food from humans, he subsists on a foul-tasting vegetable known as a snozzcumber. There, he identifies himself as the Big Friendly Giant (better known simply as the BFG), who on a nightly basis blows bottled dreams into the bedrooms of children, and explains the other type of giants that eat humans, mostly children. One night, Sophie sees a cloaked giant blowing something via a trumpet-like object into a bedroom window down the street whereupon the giant carries her to his homeland of Giant Country. The story follows a young orphaned girl named Sophie, living in a girl's orphanage run by the cantankerous Mrs. ![]()
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