ERS BOOK REPORT

THE TWITS

Mr. Twit
Mr. Twit is a wicked person, having hair that covers his entire face, with the exception of his forehead, eyes, and nose. His hair, is spiky and hard. Because he never washes it, his beard holds scraps of food dropped there while he ate, including tinned sardines, stilton cheese, and corn flakes. Occasionally, he licks these scraps out and eats them. Instead of wiping his mouth with a cloth, Mr. Twit simply wipes it on his sleeve. Mr. Twit is a beer drinker – even drinking at breakfast. He is known to seem very quiet when he is plotting evil tricks, the victim of which is usually his equally unpleasant wife. He and his wife mistreat their monkeys.

Mrs. Twit
Mrs. Twit is the hideously ugly, menacing wife of Mr. Twit, whose former beauty was distorted as a result of constant horrible thoughts over time. She takes advantage of her glass eye to play practical jokes in revenge against her husband, and demonstrates multiple acts of cruelty and viciousness throughout the story; it has been mentioned that the main reason behind her use of a walking cane was as a weapon against innocent children and animals, she has also exhibited intelligence; she managed to manoeuvre her way out of a prank that ended with her being carried off into the sky with balloons by chewing through several of them and landing safely on the ground. However, aside from this, she is portrayed as being hideous and unhygienic.

The Glass Eye
Mrs. Twit, as if to have Mr. Twit know that she is always watching him, places her glass eye in Mr. Twit's to scare him and with her back facing Mr. Twit, she says that he was plotting.

The Frog
In revenge for the glass-eye trick, Mr. Twit places a frog in Mrs. Twit's bed, and frightens Mrs Twit by claiming the item in her bed is a 'Giant Skillywiggler', with "teeth like screwdrivers" with which it would bite off her toes. Mrs. Twit then faints, at which point Mr. Twit splashes a jugful of cold water onto her face. She soon recovers, as the frog hops onto her face to get near the water. Mr. Twit then claims the 'Giant Skillywiggler' will soon bite off her nose. Mrs. Twit then flees.

The Shrinks
In revenge for the Wormy Spaghetti, Mr. Twit glues pieces of wood no thicker than a penny onto Mrs. Twit's cane each night, as well as onto the legs of her chair, making Mrs. Twit believe that she is slowly shrinking. Mr. Twit then frightens her by claiming that she has contracted an illness called the 'shrinks', by which she will be caused to disappear. Mr Twit then claims that to cure the shrinks, Mrs Twit will have to be "stretched". Mr Twit then ties Mrs Twit up in the garden to 60 gas balloons intending to leave her there for a while to teach her a lesson. However, Mrs Twit comments that if the strings break, it's goodbye for her, so Mr Twit pretends to tie some more strings to her ankles, and cut through the strings and sending her skywards.

Mrs Twit eventually returns by biting through some of the balloon strings so she sinks slowly down, collapsing on Mr Twit in the garden,, cracking him senseless with her walking stick which she had somehow managed to hold onto throughout the duration of the prank.

The Sticky Tree
There is an "Big Dead Tree" in the Twits' garden, which Mr Twit uses to trap birds by spreading Sticky Glue on the branches. Captive birds are then made into a pie by Mrs. Twit. During the story four schoolboys are caught instead of birds; but escape by unfastening their trousers and falling to the ground outside the Twits' garden after Mr. Twit said that he will make boy pie instead of bird pie. It is this use of glue that gives the captive monkey Muggle-Wump and his family the idea of using it against the Twits.

Rescuing the Animals
Using their friend the Roly-Poly Bird as an interpreter of languages, Muggle-Wump and his wife and children convey the warning that any bird landing on the Big Dead Tree will be cooked into Mrs. Twit's Bird Pie. When Mr. Twit, in retaliation, spreads glue on the monkeys' cage (which serves as a substitute perch), the monkeys alter the warning. The birds end up landing on the Twits' roof. This enrages Mr. Twit, who doesn't want to keep waiting for his pie, so the Twits decide to go to the shop and buy a gun each.

During their absence on this errand, Muggle-Wump plots a final trick: to turn the Twits' house upside-down. With the help of the birds, Muggle-Wump removes everything in the house, and uses Mr. Twit's glue to stick the objects upside-down to the ceiling, leaving the floor absolutely bare.

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. Just as the preparations for this trick are finished, the twits return home. Everything goes as planned, the Twits believed they've been turned upside down and so stand on their heads to counter it, only to be stuck to the bare floor.

However, heads are not made to be stood upon. With so much weight on it from above, the Twits literally get 'the shrinks', as was mentioned earlier in the book. However, this time it's not a trick, it's the real thing. After a week or so, the Twits disappear, and everyone who knew of them shouts "hooray!" Meanwhile, The Muggle-wumps and Roly-Poly bird escape to their native African land.

ANGELO

• I learned not to be a brat and during the project, I learned more about my classmates and become good friends.

WEASLEY

• This book is really exciting.Mr.Twit and Mrs.Twit revenged on each other. I think they are stupid since it is not healthy to revenge.Also,I think they are terrible because they are very dirty and I cannot imagine how they looks.This story tells me ,if we do bad things,we will punished by the others.

SCOTT

• After finished this ERS project, I know about my classmates. I know more about the communication of each other. I learn that we need to treat good to the others otherwise we will be like Mr.Twit and Mrs.Twit.

JAVAS

• I have learnt many thing in the ers project,such as some very simple knowledge like grammar,and 1+1=2. I have also learnt many from the book Matilda. It told me not to be greedy and should care about others. I also have to thank my group mates for supporting me like sharing wifi to me. Hope we can work better in the future.

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