THE WITCHES BY Roald Dahl

 Brainstorming

ü  How to recognized a witch

ü  Why the witches could be the most dangerous creature of the world?

ü  The mystery of the grand high witch

ü  What kind of spell usually use the witches for disappear kids

ü  The grandma: an old enemy of the grand high witch

ü  What learned Luke when he was a mouse

Outlining

1.    The characters

a.    The pets: Mary and William

b.    The grandma, who fought with the grand high witch

c.    Luke, whose parents died in a car accident

d.    The Grand High Witch, which makes me feel so scared

2.    Main ideas

a.    How Luka met the witches

·         Grandma´s illness

·         Travel to Bournemounth

·         The meeting with Mr. Stringer, who was the owner of the hotel

·         The big room

b.    Luka was caught for the witches

·         The Formula 86 delayed action mouse-maker

·         The witches´ project

c.    The solution

·         Granma´s plan

·         Luka returned to be a kid

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The Witches by Ronald Dahl, but retell for me: A beautiful white mouse

This is not a fairy tale, believe me, this is a real story about the most dangerous creatures that have ever exist on earth. Hi, my name is Mary and I am a beautiful and an intelligent white mouse; in this moment I am an expert tight- rope walker and I am a rock star in the Luke´s white mouse circus, but, obviously the mouse who is a natural acrobat has a past, let me tell you this terrifying story…

I was in a pet´s store with my brother Willian, and one day ran into the place a beautiful old woman, with a long black cigar, who bought us as a gift for her grandson. She picked up us and after she left this couple of mice with a brilliant kid: Luke. We usually had a great time with Luke, and we used to play a lot of, indeed, was Luke who showed me how walk for the string. One day, grandma’s Luke got an ill and the doctor said that we should travel to a hotel near the sea, because she had pneumonia, and this illness is dangerous when a person is more than eighty years.

In this difficult situation, we followed the doctor´s suggestions, and in Easter holidays we took a train to Bournemounth, a peaceful town in England, whose sea views made of this city a pretty boring place to spend our summer holiday. In this city, definitely happen to me the most frightful episode of all my life.

Firstly, Luke decided that he wish he had to use William and me for make some jokes, and he taught us how to creep up for the sleeve of his jacket and come out by his neck, this was amazing but, suddenly appeared in our bedroom the hotel´s own, and he told to Luke and his grandmother, that if Luke wanted to keep the mice he had to put us into a box.    

But Luke decided to seek a safer place where we could play and enjoy our vacations; and in front of us appeared an empty room and the notice on the board said “Annual meeting of the royal society for the prevention of cruelty to children”, but we sidled cautiously into the room when surprisingly showed up hundreds of beautiful women with gloves in their hands and flashy dresses; but in this place, there was a young lady, that was tiny and wore black gloves and a long black dress.

Luke was behind a screen, and suddenly he said to us “Willian, Mary I am going to die, this room is full of witches, and they don´t like the kids”, when I looked again the meeting, those beautiful girls whose dresses was terrific simply had disappeared and we were in front of the most dangerous creatures of all the world.

Before continue with the story, I am going to show you how to recognize a witch: A witch is always a woman; Witches wear gloves even in the house; a real witch always wears a wig to hide her baldness and they have slightly larger nose hole than ordinary person; finally, they have in the middle of their eyes a little black dot that changing color all the time.

 Now, you know how a witch is and Luke knew too, because his grandma taught to him. But, this story continues, and the witches caught to Luke and transformed him in a mouse like us. William and I decided that we had to help and we show to Luke how the mouse´s life is and we picked up him to her grandma, fortunately she had the solution for this big problem

He told to his grandma the witches ‘plan: each England´s witch would buy a candy store with the money that the grand witch had done in her house, after they should put a little bit of the mix that they had used with Luke in all the candies; later, they should prepared a Great Gala Opening and they should give all the choc and sweet to the kids from England. When the children were in their school at the next day, they would transform into mice and the teachers would put rat´s tramps and killed their students. 

Ahead this terrible plan, we knew that we should do something and with Luke´s help, in first place, we stole the magic mix that transformed him in a mouse, and after, we put this formula in the witches’ food and when they were in the dining- room, all of them had massive overdoses and those ladies turned into tons of brown mice. After this, Luka´s grandma found out the perfect recipe for return to Luka his original human form, and he flow back to the normalcy.

Now, I am here telling you this story, and my only advice for you is that the witches are real and luckily there are not a great number of those creatures, but they still exist and you have to take care you and your little brothers, because most of the witches are lovely and your neighbor could be one of they.