<P> Dahl's children's works are usually told from the point of view of a child . They typically involve adult villains who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one "good" adult to counteract the villain (s). These stock characters are possibly a reference to the abuse that Dahl stated that he experienced in the boarding schools he attended . Dahl's books see the triumph of the child; children's book critic Amanda Craig said, "He was unequivocal that it is the good, young and kind who triumph over the old, greedy and the wicked ." While his whimsical fantasy stories feature an underlying warm sentiment, they usually contain a lot of darkly comic and grotesque scenarios, including gruesome violence . The Witches, George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda are examples of this formula . The BFG follows it in a more analogous way with the good giant (the BFG or "Big Friendly Giant") representing the "good adult" archetype and the other giants being the "bad adults". This formula is also somewhat evident in Dahl's film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . Class - conscious themes also surface in works such as Fantastic Mr Fox and Danny, the Champion of the World where the unpleasant wealthy neighbours are outwitted . </P> <P> Dahl also features in his books characters who are very fat, usually children . Augustus Gloop, Bruce Bogtrotter and Bruno Jenkins are a few of these characters, although an enormous woman named Aunt Sponge is featured in James and the Giant Peach and the nasty farmer Boggis in Fantastic Mr Fox is an enormously fat character . All of these characters (with the possible exception of Bruce Bogtrotter) are either villains or simply unpleasant gluttons . They are usually punished for this: Augustus Gloop drinks from Willy Wonka's chocolate river, disregarding the adults who tell him not to, and falls in, getting sucked up a pipe and nearly being turned into fudge . In Matilda, Bruce Bogtrotter steals cake from the evil headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and is forced to eat a gigantic chocolate cake in front of the school . Featured in The Witches, Bruno Jenkins is lured by the witches into their convention with the promise of chocolate, before they turn him into a mouse . Aunt Sponge is flattened by a giant peach . Dahl's mother used to tell him and his sisters tales about trolls and other mythical Norwegian creatures and some of his children's books contain references or elements inspired by these stories, such as the giants in The BFG, the fox family in Fantastic Mr Fox and the trolls in The Minpins . </P> <P> Receiving the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Dahl encouraged his children and his readers to let their imagination run free . His daughter Lucy stated "his spirit was so large and so big he taught us to believe in magic ." </P> <P> Those who don't believe in magic will never find it . </P>

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