Aunt Spiker

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are the main villains in, "James and the Giant Peach." After the death of James' parents they had no chose but to take in James. Instead of caring for him they force him to do all the work, they beat him, and almost always make him go into his room without dinner.

About Sponge
Aunt Sponge is a large woman and somewhat small. She's usually the one beats up James and eats the most. She claims that she a very beautiful women, but looks beg to differ.

About Spiker
Aunt Spiker is a tall, skinny and ugly woman. She's probably the older aunt. Spiker is the brains of the two.

Scheme
The live in a poor rundown house on top of a rocky hill so they both want to be rich, and they both use the giant peach to get rich instead of eating the peach. When the peach gets loose they follow it all the way to New York, (Which was across the Antlantic Ocean.) When James tells the cop what they do to him, they attempted to either harm James, or murder him. They even try to scare James about a monster called the Rhino.

In the end, they are both tied up by Miss Spider's string with Mr. Grasshopper spinning them around, and the cop has them taken away on a crane.

In the Book
In the book, when the Peach gets loose and rolls, it flattens Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, killing them both, and they subsequently do not reappear at the end.