Reading by Diede Leemrijse
Book: The twits
Writer: Roald Dahl
Passage from the book
Pages 18 to 23
I liked this part the most because it was the best prank they put in the story.
Mr. Twit stuck a piece of wood to mrs. Twit her walking stick. Which made her think she was getting
to shrink. And so she thought.
Mr. Twit teased her and kept saying it kept getting smaller and smaller. After a few days, he also put
pieces of wood under Mrs. Twit her chair. So that she no longer touched the ground with her feet.
She panicked when she realized her feet could no longer touch the ground. And yelled at her
husband.
I thought the funniest thing was that Mr. Twit said, 'Your head shrinks into your neck... And your neck
shrinks into your body.... and your body shrinks into your legs... and your legs shrink into your feet.
Mrs. Twit obviously didn't like that he said that and panicked completely. She said to him: How long
have I got? How long before i finish up as a bundle of old clothes and a pair of shoes?
Then Mr. Twit had an idea. He said to Mrs. Twit: 'You've got to be stretched'.
Feelings/thoughts on the book
It was a fun and funny book. It was easy to read and didn't contain many difficult words. The pictures
that came with it also help you understand the story better and make it fun to read. You quickly got
through the text because you wanted to know what the next joke to the other person was going to
pull and how the piece ends.
They played a lot of pranks on each other. Some were worse than the other jokes, but I wouldn't pull
a joke like that on anyone else.
I thought the book described well of what the Twits looked like. I could imagine it well. Mr. Twit and
Mrs. Twit looked gross and were both fat. mr. Twit had a long hairy beard with all kinds of food in it
and he had a mustache. He had a large nose and a continuous eyebrow.
mr. Twit didn't look as bad as now, but her hair is all messed up, she has a big nose and bad teeth.
They were both pretty mean, to others as well as to each other. That's why I think they play all those
jokes. And they laugh at each other for that. If they believe something.
Description of a character
mr. Twit is a man with a very long and dirty beard. There was still a lot in it and his dirty, long
mustache also contains everything, cornflake, canned sardine and cheese
mr. Twitter was a tweet. He was born as a tweeter. And now, at age sixty, he was a bigger jerk than
ever. The hair on his face didn't get smooth and matte, like most men with hairy faces.
He was a filthy and smelly old man and also an extremely horrible old man.
He and his wife Mrs. Twit played pranks on each other. from one joke to another joke. He extended
his wife's cane and chair to make it look like she had shrunk. He strung her with balloons with helium
in them. But that didn't go well. He accidentally glued children to a tree, although those birds had to
be glued. And so much more, but his wife has often fooled him. Like the worms he ate.
Book: The twits
Writer: Roald Dahl
Passage from the book
Pages 18 to 23
I liked this part the most because it was the best prank they put in the story.
Mr. Twit stuck a piece of wood to mrs. Twit her walking stick. Which made her think she was getting
to shrink. And so she thought.
Mr. Twit teased her and kept saying it kept getting smaller and smaller. After a few days, he also put
pieces of wood under Mrs. Twit her chair. So that she no longer touched the ground with her feet.
She panicked when she realized her feet could no longer touch the ground. And yelled at her
husband.
I thought the funniest thing was that Mr. Twit said, 'Your head shrinks into your neck... And your neck
shrinks into your body.... and your body shrinks into your legs... and your legs shrink into your feet.
Mrs. Twit obviously didn't like that he said that and panicked completely. She said to him: How long
have I got? How long before i finish up as a bundle of old clothes and a pair of shoes?
Then Mr. Twit had an idea. He said to Mrs. Twit: 'You've got to be stretched'.
Feelings/thoughts on the book
It was a fun and funny book. It was easy to read and didn't contain many difficult words. The pictures
that came with it also help you understand the story better and make it fun to read. You quickly got
through the text because you wanted to know what the next joke to the other person was going to
pull and how the piece ends.
They played a lot of pranks on each other. Some were worse than the other jokes, but I wouldn't pull
a joke like that on anyone else.
I thought the book described well of what the Twits looked like. I could imagine it well. Mr. Twit and
Mrs. Twit looked gross and were both fat. mr. Twit had a long hairy beard with all kinds of food in it
and he had a mustache. He had a large nose and a continuous eyebrow.
mr. Twit didn't look as bad as now, but her hair is all messed up, she has a big nose and bad teeth.
They were both pretty mean, to others as well as to each other. That's why I think they play all those
jokes. And they laugh at each other for that. If they believe something.
Description of a character
mr. Twit is a man with a very long and dirty beard. There was still a lot in it and his dirty, long
mustache also contains everything, cornflake, canned sardine and cheese
mr. Twitter was a tweet. He was born as a tweeter. And now, at age sixty, he was a bigger jerk than
ever. The hair on his face didn't get smooth and matte, like most men with hairy faces.
He was a filthy and smelly old man and also an extremely horrible old man.
He and his wife Mrs. Twit played pranks on each other. from one joke to another joke. He extended
his wife's cane and chair to make it look like she had shrunk. He strung her with balloons with helium
in them. But that didn't go well. He accidentally glued children to a tree, although those birds had to
be glued. And so much more, but his wife has often fooled him. Like the worms he ate.
