#shorts Isaac Letchford "Reads The Magic Finger" - Preview 1

1 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube Shorts clip, Isaac Letchford reads aloud a passage from Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger. The narrator describes the neighboring Gregg family—Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and their two sons, Philip and William—who are avid hunters, going out every Saturday with their father and returning with a young deer. The narrator recounts visiting the farm to play, being laughed at, and a moment of confrontation where the narrator becomes angry, sees red, and imagines whiskers like a cat’s, expressing frustration toward the Greggs. The excerpt provides a brief snapshot of the story’s characters, setting, and the narrator’s emotional response.

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I am reading The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. The farm next to ours is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gregg. The Greggs have 2 children, both of them boys. Their names are Philip and William. Sometimes I go over to their farm to play with the Gregg family. I am going to tell you about it as best as I can. Now the one thing that Mr. Gregg and his 2 boys loved to do more than anything else was to go hunting every Saturday morning. They laughed at me. I even said something about it once to Mr. Gregg. Out of the woods with their father, and they were carrying a lovely young deer. From there, I put it on the whole Gregg family for months. You are a stupid little girl! Mrs. Winter said. I'm not a stupid little— Mrs. Winter said. Then I got cross and I saw red and I put whiskers just like the ones you see on a cat, only much bigger.