How is he going to accomplish his mission and still make it out alive – especially when he accidentally gets caught in the pants of one of the cooks? Oops! Up until the very last second of the scene, we're holding our breath. The entire time, we're wondering what's going to happen. So he shuffles into the kitchen and needs to avoid getting caught. Our narrator needs to figure out a way to get the Mouse-Maker into the witches' food. The suspense happens before the climax in this book, actually. Suspense REAL WITCHES Aren't in the Kitchen, Luckily Actually, the illustrations help make this even more climactic and exciting. Then everyone in the hotel goes crazy trying to swat them with knives and frying pans. One second they're gobbling up their soup and the next second, they're mice. Climax REAL WITCHES Turn Into Real MiceĪfter our narrator has successfully poured the Mouse-Maker formula into their food, all of the witches start to transform into mice. As if the conflict (i.e., witches want to kill children) wasn't enough, this just makes it even more of a challenge. The Grand High Witch turns our narrator into a mouse, which will make it kind of tough for him to solve the initial problem – not impossible, just tough. This is a life-long complication – literally. Complication REAL WITCHES Turn Our Narrator Into a Mouse Witches existing isn't necessarily a problem. Without this conflict there wouldn't be a problem. The big issue here is that witches like to do away with children (and that's putting it lightly). Our narrator prepares us for a world where witches exist and, to make matters worse, it sure isn't easy to recognize them.

In the introduction, we find out that there is such a thing as real witches.

The Witches by Roald Dahl