Roald Dahl’s imagination often pits cunning children against bitter and repulsive adults. This continuing theme may be so important in his work based on Dahl’s experiences in boarding school, when his English masters beat him, and upperclassmen were mean and territorial. But in The BFG, the beaten character, the BFG, seems to be similar to Dahl himself; because the BFG spends all of his time giving pleasure to children and saving them, we learn something about who Dahl really is.

In Matilda, Matilda loves to read, and walks 10 blocks every day to the library to pick out books, and she spends the whole day reading in there.

Matilda lives her family who don’t really care about her; but Matilda’s incredible teacher does. Miss Honey understands and relates to Matilda, just like a teacher should. But Matilda’s principal Miss Trunchbull is the complete opposite. She doesn’t care about any of her students and she is very strict.  But Dahl seems to relate to Matilda; because Matilda’s principal treats her horribly (just like Dahl was treated), children can often imagine how horrible Matilda’s principal really was. After all, her fictional name is Mrs. Trunchbull:

Roald Dahl’s fantasy stories give children a vivid picture of what goes on in the world of adults. This continuing theme is so important to his success because children can have a strong connection with the character and can think and relate to them. But Matilda seems to be similar to Dahl: because Matilda’s principal treats her horribly, just like Dahl was treated by his teachers, children can imagine doubly how horrible Matilda’s teacher really was.