James and The Giant Peach

Setting
A desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover
The English channel, but quickly drifts away from civilization and into the expanses of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thousands of feet in the air,
The top of the Empire State Building

Manhattan

The New York Subway,

The peach is now a mansion located in Central Park
Plot
James Henry Trotter, four years old, lives with his loving parents in a pretty and bright cottage by the sea in the south of England. James's world is turned upside down when, while on a shopping trip in London, his mother and father are gobbled up by a rampaging rhinoceros that had escaped. James is forced to go and live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who live in a high, desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover. For three years Spiker and Sponge physically and verbally abuse James, not allowing him to venture beyond the hill or play with other children. Around the house James is treated as a drudge, beaten for hardly any reason, improperly fed, and forced to sleep on bare floorboards in the attic…to be continue…read the book lasy!
Characters
• James Henry Trotter The protagonist of the book
• The Old Man - A friendly yet mysterious wizard who is only seen once, yet is ultimately behind all of magical occurrences in the book, and also starts the adventure when he gives James a bag full of glowing green alligator tongues
• Aunt Spiker - A dominating, cruel, malicious, and thoroughly repulsive lady, who derives a sadistic pleasure in manipulating and tormenting young James, who she sees as nothing more than a slave.
• Aunt Sponge - A lazy, greedy, selfish, and morbidly fat woman, and equally as cruel and repulsive as her sister Spiker.
• The Centipede - An anthropomorphic male centipede, depicted as a boisterous rascal with a good heart, he is perhaps James' closest friend among the insects, taking an almost brotherly role to the boy.
• The Earthworm - An anthropomorphic male earthworm who is more or less enemies with the Centipede, with whom he frequently argues.
• The Old Green Grasshopper - An anthropomorphic male grasshopper
• The Ladybug - A good-natured, motherly anthropomorphic female ladybird who takes care of James as if he were her son
• Miss Spider - An anthropomorphic female spider
• The Glowworm - A six-legged, anthropomorphic female
• The Silkworm - An anthropomorphic silkworm who is a shy, introverted creature that sleeps most of the time, but can easily be woken up in order to weave beautiful,