The works of Roald Dahl they are being rewritten. The latest reissue of stories like ‘Matilda‘, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘ either ‘James and the Giant Peach‘, made in 2022, have changes to eliminate terms such as ‘fat’ or ‘ugly’ for ‘huge’ or ‘bestial’.
Thus, Augustus Gloop stops being fat or Matilda stops reading only works by men to also read men. Jane Austen. In addition, the Oompa Loompas they cease to be considered within the masculine gender and become gender neutral. In ‘Las Brujas’, women go from being supermarket cashiers or secretaries to being scientists or running businesses.
Taking an example of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘, we see how a simple paragraph changes.
– Before: ‘A nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat that it looked as if it had been inflated with a powerful pump’.
– Now: ‘It was so huge that it looked as if it had been inflated with a powerful pump’.
The changes have to do with removing language related to weight, mental health, violence or genderavoiding the creation of stereotypes for the little ones.
Source: Lasexta
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