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James Henry Trotter is the title character from the Roald Dahl book James and the Giant Peach. In the movie he was played by Paul Terry.

James as a character

James Henry Trotter, an ordinary four year old boy, has had a happy life but is orphaned as a result of a bizarre and terrible accident (his parents were supposedly swallowed by a Rhino.) He is sent to live with his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who subject him to a variety of physical and mental abuse.

One day while chopping wood in the garden, James, then age seven, meets a strange man who mysteriously knows James's plight and gives him a small sack containing the ingredients for a magic potion, the consumption of which, the stranger promises, will bring James wealth, happiness, and great adventure. Unfortunately, while running back to the house to hide the sack, James trips and drops it. It bursts and its contents sink into the ground and vanish without a trace - or so it then seems. James is horrified at the loss of what seemed to be his only opportunity for escape from his wretched aunts. But things take another odd turn when a long-barren peach tree in the garden puts forth a single fruit which grows to almost twice the size of the tree. One night, James, who has been shoved out of the house, crawls inside the giant peach, where he finds a most bizarre group of friends: a giant grasshopper, centipede, spider, ladybug, earthworm, glowworm, and a silkworm. The peach, with the help of The Centipede, breaks off the tree, rolls over and flattens James' two aunts, and into the Atlantic Ocean, where their adventures really begin.

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