General/The Book
The BFG is the Last of His Kind
That is, he's the last of an earlier, more civilized race of giants. Like the BFG, this earlier race was smaller, more in tune with nature and magic, and more closely involved with humans, kind of like a giant-size version of elves. At one point, he mentions to Sophie that, while giants are immortal, they do sometimes disappear suddenly and mysteriously — how would he know this unless he'd witnessed it at some point? Dreams aren't just made for different genders, they're made for different individuals
Some of the dreams on the BFG's shelf contain details specific to the individual. For example, the bathtub/invisibility one: the dreamer is inevitably a boy, has a mother and father who live together, has an algebra teacher named Mr Grummit, and dislikes algebra. The BFG says that a boy will dislike a dream that's meant to be for a girl even if it's designed to be a very good dream. Maybe one day, he gave a boy the wrong dream and he woke up and reacted with confusion because the dream was meant for, say, a girl named Olivia, and consequently everyone called him Olivia in the dream and he woke up and said, "What? But I'm a boy!" and the BFG thought that dreams must be allocated to gender. For all we know, maybe that "trogglehumper" was destined for a giant because for it to work, you'd have to be afraid of Jack and the Beanstalk. The taste of humans isn't really country-specific
According to the BFG, the other giants have preferences about which countries they eat people from because they all taste like what the name of their country sounds like in English — people from Turkey taste like turkey (or, in the Cosgrove Hall film, Turkish delight), people from Wales taste of fish, people from Denmark and Labrador taste like dogs (supposedly Danes taste like labradors and Labradorians taste like Great Danes, although it's implied he was just confused on that point). But why would a country's name affect the taste of its inhabitants? Answer: it doesn't. The giants — who have never actually tasted anything other than humans — simply assume that's how it works, because they're just that stupid.The Movie:
The Fleshlumpeater is the BFG's son
Or at least, the two are related. The two share very similar facial features, coupled with the BFG referring to the Fleshlumpeater as 'boy' at several points throughout the film.
- All giants are closer to being brothers, "Boy" has different subtexts in British English.
