The Twits a book by Roald Dahl
This book is a children’s book, the author of this book is Roald Dahl. The same author of: Matilda, BFG, James and the giant peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc.
My thoughts about the characters, Mr. and Mrs. Twit, they weren’t nice throughout the story and had no character development , they were cruel and everyone hates them. They also weren’t my favorite characters either. I felt sad for the monkeys, trapped in a cage, far away from home, always get beaten up and starve. The monkeys have the right to get revenge on the Twits, even if it was a bit weird. The Roly-Poly bird was my favorite character, he is sort of the hero of the story, he also helped the monkeys even if they were a bit crazy at the end, and helped warn the other birds to not get eaten.
My opinions on the story, I’m not sure if it is for kids to 3-5yrs because it involves guns and killing of birds. I think the story is actually nice, the plot was smooth and the characters were consistent, I wouldn’t change the story. The story’s moral lesson is quite good too, that beauty is about inside and not out and also about your attitude to everything and everyone will affect you. The Twits got karma since they weren’t nice to people and played tricks on each other. While the monkeys who didn’t do anything wrong got help and were free. I will give The Twits a 8.5/10.
A Story summary of The Twits.
This is about a couple, a nasty couple who play tricks on each other and are mean to other people. Mr. Twit, had a big long bushy beard, he thought it made him looked wise, but in fact, it made him look nasty. He never washes his beard nor shave it, so whenever he eats, small crumbs fall into his beard and stay there forever. Mr. Twit also has a wife, Mrs. Twit, she used to be pretty but slowly became ugly through the years. She is a small round woman with messy hair and has a glass eye looking the other way. The reason why she backed ugly through the years, is because of her thoughts, the book says “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.” The book also says about being pretty, “ A person who has god thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
The Twits had also enslaved a family of monkeys, they made the monkeys suffer, by making them upside down, their hands on the floor and their legs up in the air. Why? You may ask? Because Mr. Twit and Mrs. Twit used to work in a circus as monkey trainers. Although they were retired. Mr. Twit wanted to own the first GREAT UPSIDE DOWN MONKEYS CIRCUS in the world. The monkeys always had to be on their head, so the blood kept going to their head, their arms would sore and the two kid monkeys would pass out. And Mr. Twit would beat them up. The monkeys wish they were back home in their natural habitat, back in the African jungle, free and happy.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit had a huge tree in their backyard, birds would sit and perch on it, but those poor birds. Mr. and Mrs. Twit used supper sticky glue and paint it on the tree branches, and once the birds gets tucked they get taken by Mr. Twit and cooked into bird pie by Mrs. Twit. This happens every Wednesday, once a week. And the monkeys tried to warn the birds, but the birds don’t understand them, the monkeys spoke in African and the birds only know English.
One day, The Roly-Poly bird came to England for a vacation, the bird was a majestic bird, from Africa. the Roly-Poly bird was flying about and the monkeys recognize the Roly-Poly bird. The monkeys told the Roly-Poly bird what happens to the English birds every Wednesday, and that they don’t understand them. So the Roly-Poly bird warn the English bird to rest on the monkey’s cage and not the tree. Mr. Twit was furious when he didn’t have bird pie after seeing the birds on the monkey’s cage. So he put glue on top of the cage, so the Roly-Poly bird told the other birds to sit on top of the roof. Mr. Twit had enough of it so he had a plan.
M.r and Mrs. Twit went to buy guns. While they were off to buy guns, the monkeys told the Roly-Poly birds where the keys to their cage are, once the monkeys were free, they wanted revenge. They went to the shack and took the super sticky glue and went to Mr. and Mrs. Twit’s house, the monkeys told the Roly-Poly bird to tell the other birds to glue the bottom of the furniture and stick it to the ceiling. And they did that to the whole living room. Now the room looked upside down. The monkeys went back to their cage and looked like they didn’t escape. When Mr. and Mrs. Twit came back, two birds brushed super glue while leaving the house, Mr. and Mrs. Twit thought it was bird droppings.
When they went inside, they saw their whole living room upside down, Mr. and Mrs. Twit were panicking, they thought THEY WERE THE ONES UPSIDE DOWN. So Mr. Twit proposed they would be back to normal if they stand on their heads, but little did they know the super glue was on their heads too. So now they were stuck upside down, and the monkeys were free and the birds too, the monkeys went back to Africa, good riddance to Mr. and Mrs. Twit. When Mr. and Mrs. Twit realized they were wrong, Mrs. Twit started to blame her husband and then they started bickering.
Until they develop the Shrinks.
Soon their heads shrank into their necks. Then their necks began shrinking into their bodies. And their bodies began shrinking into their legs. And their legs began shrinking into their feet. And one week later, on a nice sunny afternoon a man named Fred went to check on them and only their clothes were on the floor, there was nothing left of Mr. and Mrs. Twit. Everyone and Fred, shouted, “HOORAY!”
