Vocab
The peach
Who is the main character? (full name)
James Henry Trotter
where did the peach end up after all the rolling?
In the ocean
Before the magic happens, what plant in the garden has no leaves or fruit, showing how sad and lonely James’s life is?
The old peach tree.
the magic crystals
"she wore steel rimmed spectacles" Spectacles can also be known as?
Glasses
What chracter was described as lean, tall, and bony? How wore steel-rimmed spectacles
Aunt Spiker
Where did James live when his parents were alive?
in a beautiful house by the sea
This ordinary object contains the magical, glowing green crystals, showing that wonderful, life-changing surprises can be hidden inside very plain packages.
The paper bag.
As the peach grew out of control, it was described as getting as large as what?
""Come closer to me, little boy," he said, beckoning to James with a finger." What does beckoning mean?
to signal/gesture with one's hand
What character is described as enormously fat and very short? With small piggy eyes and a sunken mouth.
Aunt Sponge
Where did the Aunts live?
South of England/England
While James chops wood in the blazing heat, who sit on comfortable deck chairs drinking lemonade, showing that they symbolize pure laziness and selfishness.
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker
"looked precisely like a great white cabbage." Who is this referring to?
Aunt Sponge
"The garden, which covered the whole top of the hill, was large and desolate." What does desolate mean?
empty and without life
What character's face was described as a map of wrinkles?
The old man's face
The peach rolled through a _____________factory.
Chocolate
What is James is never allowed to walk through this specific object at the edge of the yard, which stands as a symbol of his lack of freedom?
The Garden Gate
When the aunts were described as "two ghastly hags", what does ghastly mean?
frightful/terrible/ugly
"a really fantastically peculiar thing to occur." Peculiar can also mean
odd or strange
How did James's parents die?
They got eaten up by an enormous rhinoceros.
Based on Chapter 1, where did the enormous angry rhinoceros escape from?
London Zoo
What did Aunt Sponge want to do with the peach as soon as they found it, showing her greed, neglect, and unfair labor.
Eat the peach, not allowing James even a bite.
The glowing green crystals were said to wriggle and squirm like what?
like little insects