When she takes her shoes off to sneak in, the mice children under the bed see her single-toed feet and slip two mouse traps onto her toes. In the book, the Grand High Witch turns into a mouse in the dining hall like the rest of the coven, but in the movie, she doesn’t touch the soup and instead follows Grandma upstairs. As the room erupts into chaos and the hotel manager (Stanley Tucci) is bit in the groin by a witch-turned-rat, Grandma and the mice-kids sneak up into the Grand High Witch’s room to get the rest of the Mouse-Maker Formula. This is where the movie diverges completely from its source material. They speak both in English and Norwegian to each other, and the boy even admits he “felt closer to her than to own mother.” When his parents die in a car crash during their Christmastime visit, the two take solace in each other’s company, but their mourning over the deaths is only briefly mentioned, because there are witches afoot! Twice a year, he and his parents returned to Norway to visit his beloved grandmother on his maternal side, who is their only living relative. In the book, both of the boy’s parents are Norwegian, but the boy was born and went to school in England, since his father had business there. Jahzir Kadeem Bruno, who plays the boy in the movie, is Black, and the character is now named Charlie, perhaps a wink at one of Dahl’s more famous protagonists.

We are given no description of his physical appearance other than the illustrations by Quentin Blake that so famously accompany many of Roald Dahl’s works, which portray him as a little white boy.

Urn:oclc:827710038 Republisher_date 20120811052226 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120810202432 Scanner boy remains unnamed throughout Dahl’s story, only referred to occasionally as “my darling” by his grandmother. OL67114M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:12:25 Boxid IA136001 Boxid_2 CH104501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Moline, IL Donor

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