Introduction/General information about the book Title
: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author
: Roald Dahl Date first edition: 1964 Genre: fantasy/humour
Setting
The story takes place at the time of the author, in the 20
th
century. It is set in “a great town”, which can be real or not (the city’s name is not mentioned). In this town, there is the factory of a famous candy
-making genius: Willy
Wonka’s factory.
Characters Main character
: Charlie Bucket Throughout the story, Charlie will become more self-confident, and will be more careless like a child , instead of being reasonable like an adult. Charlie Bucket is a little normal boy, whose family is very poor . He lives in a small wooden house, and can hardly ever eat a real meal. He is kind, brave, generous, and particularly reasonable for a child of his age. He is skinny, because of hunger.
Other characters:
Willy Wonka
Grandpa Joe
Augustus Gloop
Veruca Salt
Violette Beauregarde He owns the chocolate factory. Everybody says he is a genius, and he has created lots of incredible new candies. He is eccentric and a bit crazy. He is Charlie
’
s grandpa. He is very old, but while visiting the factory he gets his strength back , and becomes more cheerful, a bit like a child. He is kind. He loves the factory and Willy
Wonka’s inventions.
It’s the first child who found a golden
ticket. He is fat and greedy, he eats all the time. With the amount of chocolates he gulps down, who had a chance to find a ticket if not him? A little girl spoiled by her rich parents, who always gets what she wants. She found a golden ticket by crying until her parents find one for her. Another founder of a golden ticket. A little rude girl who chews gum all the day long, with the same piece of gum each day for three months (during the night, she sticks the piece of gum on the end of her bedpost).
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Theme
In this story, the main theme is education. The author is praising the qualities of a kind, generous child, by comparing him to rude and bad-educated childre
n and their parents. He shows us why it’s the parents’ fault when the children
are like this, because they should have been taught to have a good behaviour. His lesson is that we should all be
careful to how we rise our children so that they don’t become b
ad people. It is also about rewards and
“
justice
”
; the story of a poor family of brave, kind people, who finally get what they
deserve: a good life (this is of course not a lesson, because, unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen in real life).
Plot
Charlie is a little boy who lives in a poor family. The father has to work hard to get to feed him, his wife, Charlie and the four grandparents who stay in bed all the day long. Unfortunately, the factory where the father works has to close, and the situation becomes worse: the family begins to starve.
In the town where the family lives, there is an enormous chocolate factory: it is Willy Wonka’s one, who is
a candy-making genius, known all over the world. The factory has been closed to public for years, after Wonka discovered spies in his staff. One day, there is a surprising new in the newspapers: the candy maker decides to finally open his doors to public, but only for five people: he will randomly hide five golden tickets in five chocolate bars , and only the lucky founders will be able to visit the factory , guided by Willy Wonka himself! Everywhere, people are fighting to buy as much Wonka bars as possible, in the hope of finding a ticket. The first four tickets are found by awful and bad-educated children. Charlie would really like to find one in the candy bar he gets
once a year, for his birthday, but it doesn’t happen.
Some days later, as he walks in the street, all hopes lost, he finds
some money on the floor. He runs to buy himself a wonka bar, because he’s hungry to death, and how big is his joy
when he discovers the last golden ticket inside! He decides to go to the visit with his Grandpa Joe. The big days arrives. The five children and their parents -or grandpa- enter the factory and meet Willy Wonka. They
start the visit and find out incredible secrets in each different room they go in. But the other children aren’
t respectful
. They don’t follow Wonka’s instructions and don’t listen to their parents; or, their parents are as rude as them. Because of this, they cause accidents and have to stop the visit one after one… until there is only Charlie left!
When all the other children have left, Willy Wonka tells Charlie and his grandpa the real reason of this visit: he starts to become old, and he invented the contest with the tickets to find a child to whom he will tell all his secrets, so that Another little boy who found a golden ticket. His only passions are toy guns , movies about gangsters, and watching TV, watching TV, watching TV!
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