GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE BY ROALD DAHL.
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talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
While
8-year-old George's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kranky, are out running
grocery shopping, George's maternal grandmother bosses him around and
bullies him. She scares George by saying that she likes to eat
insects and he wonders briefly if she's a witch. To punish her for
her regular abuse, George decides to make a magic medicine to replace
her old one. He collects a variety of ingredients from around the
family farm including deodorant and shampoo from the bathroom, floor
polish from the laundry room, Horseradish sauce and gin from the
kitchen, animal medicines, engine oil and anti-freeze from the
garage, and brown Paint to mimic the colour of the original medicine.
After
cooking the ingredients in the kitchen, George gives it as medicine
to his grandmother, who grows as tall as the house, bursting through
the roof. When his grandmother doesn't believe it was George who made
her grow so tall, he proves it by feeding the medicine to one of his
father's chickens, which grows ten times its original size. Mr. and
Mrs. Kranky return home and can't believe their eyes when they see
the fattest chicken ever and the grandmother. George's father grows
very excited at the thought of rearing giant animals so that they can
end world hunger, and his family will be rich and famous. He has
George feed the medicine on the rest of the farm's animals, causing
them to become giants as well. However, his grandmother begins
complaining about being ignored and stuck in the roof, so Mr. Kranky
hires a crane to remove her from the house. Her extreme height has
her sleeping in the barn for the next few nights.
The
following morning, Mr. Kranky is still excited about George's
medicine and announces that he and George shall make gallons of it to
sell to farmers around the world. George attempts to recreate it, but
is unable to remember all the ingredients. The second medicine makes
a chicken's legs grow extremely long, and the third elongates a
chicken's neck to bizarre proportions. The fourth has the opposite
effect of the first and makes animals shrink. George's grandmother,
now even more angry she's sleeping in the barn, storms over and
starts complaining loudly that she's once again sick of being
ignored. She sees the cup of medicine in George's hand and mistakes
it for tea. Much to his and Mrs. Kranky's horror, and Mr. Kranky's
delight, she drinks the entire cup and shrinks so much that she
vanishes completely. At first, Mrs. Kranky is shocked, confused and
distraught about the sudden, and very strange disappearance of her
mother, but soon accepts that she was becoming a nuisance anyway. In
the last page, George is left to think about the implications of his
actions, feeling as though they had granted him access to the edge of
a magic world.
- George's Marvellous Medicine Wiki
Dahl was
said to be influenced by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland whilst
writing George's Marvellous Medicine especially the “Drink Me”
scene, which inspired the scene with George's Tyrannical Grandma
drinks George's “Potion” and balloons up to the size of a
farmhouse, I have to admit I can see it and wouldn't have been
surprised if he was. George's Marvellous Medicine was published in
1981 by Jonathan Cape for the UK hardback, Alfred Knopf for the US
hardback and with Puffin Books for the paperback. Great care however
was placed in the book and spread around schools as it was read aloud
to classrooms to not make George's Marvellous Medicine at home as it
could be dangerous.
I rather
enjoyed reading George's Marvellous Medicine, and read it many times
in primary school. I do have some concern that people and/or children
would ignore the warning and try to mix things together in response
to recreating the book. The book is great at showing there could be
unforeseen consequences for your actions no matter what they are.
George's Marvellous Medicine is great for families and primary school
children and I give it a 7/10.
My
opinion of Roald Dahl the writer of this book is in last weeks blog
on Matilda (07/01/2020) please head there to see my opinion of him.
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