The Gentle Giant: Exploring the Spider’s Kindness in “James and the Giant Peach”
Spiders, creatures often relegated to the shadows of our fears, spinning webs of dread in our collective imagination. We shudder at their eight legs, their silent movements, and the potent symbolism they carry. But Roald Dahl, that master of the darkly whimsical, dared to reimagine the spider in “James and the Giant Peach.” Instead of…