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James and the Giant Peach
James, through accidently dropping some magic beans, grows a giant peach. His aunts, who he is living with since his parents died, make the peach an attraction to make money. In frustration, James gets on the peach and it breaks away from the house and rolls away.
While in the peach, he meets new friends as they learn life lessons and grow as individuals.
This story takes place in England
Some of the Characters include:
Old Green Grasshopper
The Old Green Grasshopper takes something of a fatherly role to James and is depicted as elderly, although he loves life more than the rest of the inhabitants of the peach and is a passionate musician, playing a violin from his own legs and providing music for his companions
Earthworm
The Earthworm is paranoid and has an extreme phobia of birds. He is also blind, and often imagines that things are worse than they really are. The Earthworm does however become an unwitting hero when he begrudgingly saves himself and the other inhabitants of the peach.
Centipede
He is generally optimistic and even brave yet also loud-mouthed and rash, which gets himself and his companions into some bad situations, but his powerful jaws also save them on a few occasions. It was the Centipede who set the peach in motion by biting through the stem which connected it to the peach tree