Los cretinos, bueno son exactamente eso, un matrimonio tan horripilante por fuera como por dentro y por supuesto los finales de Dahl siempre dejan al lector con una sonrisa enorme. Dahl is able to dazzle the reader with his array of spooky adult characters (another usual trait for Dahl books in that adults are most often evil or oppressive to the child in the story) and their antics to bestow revenge or pain on others.

Twit), a spiteful, idle, unkempt couple who continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other to amuse themselves, and exercise their devious wickedness on their pet monkeys. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. My kid's grandparents gave my kid a Roald Dahl collection for Christmas, so now I'm reading the stories out loud. I have read this story to many of my junior classes, who simply adored the antics of the Twits and the monkeys' revenge. They are vile and small, silly little people that enjoy inflicting pain on others for no reason other than their own amusement.In 2003, The Twits was listed at number 81 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. The only joy the Twits get is from doing the dirty on each other, playing grotesque tricks including mixing worms into spaghetti, throwing frogs into the other’s bed, and lengthen their chair legs to make it appear as though one has shrunk.

the old people told; and thus, for perhaps half an hour every night, this room would become a happy place, and the whole family would forget that it was hungry and poor. As Dahl puts it: “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face … A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. With Literacy and PSHE objectives, these lesson plans explore themes including identity and understanding others' experiences. They use their professional circus trainer knowledge to try to create an upside down monkey circus, a project that mostly involves torturing the Muggle-Wumps, a family of monkeys, by forcing them to stand on their heads for long periods of time. There is seemingly no end to the cruelty this couple has towards each other and unfortunately, those around them fare no better.And I love this movie because it reminds us that twits like the Twits, whose default emotions are anger and vengeance, can’t be allowed to win in our world.

Well, Dahl seeks to provide the reader with a slight understanding by offering up some of their hygienic deficiencies (especially among the men whose hairy faces are receptacles for anything that could land therein), persistent ugliness (which stems from thoughts of that nature), and utter disregard for anyone else. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am someone who will print out giant photographs of my own face and stick them to the walls of my boss’s office when she’s out. Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands declined to incorporate the changes. To keep their heads glued to the ground, two birds will put a small amount of glue on the Twits' heads right before they enter the house so that when they stand on their heads, they will be stuck.I don’t know what this says about me, and I really don’t want to look into it,” he told Netflix earlier this year. The Twits study guide contains a biography of Roald Dahl, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Dahl weaves the story from the early exploration of the Twits to the ultimate battle between good and evil (in this case fauna versus Twit) and there is little hope that it will end peacefully.

He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

In 2025, Netflix will release the animated film The Twits — written, directed, and produced by Academy Award nominee Phil Johnston ( Ralph Breaks the Internet) and animated by Jellyfish Pictures ( The Boss Baby, The Bad Guys). This is of course bollocks, and not just that, it's dangerous bollocks, and should not be told to children. Much like The Magic Finger, the character's vengeance is swift, clever and almost disproportionately brutal.