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Book Review on CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
By Roald Dahl

Submitted by:
Rusty B. Dominise

Submitted to:
Ms. Sheehan Mae Author

October 11, 2012
CHARACTERS:

Willy Wonka  the owner of the biggest chocolate factory in the world and the genius in candies and sweets making
Charlie Bucket  the poor young fellow who was very lucky
Augustus Gloop  the very fat child who have done nothing but to eat
Veruka Salt  the rich spoiled brat who gets whatever it is that she wants
Violet Beauregarde  the gum addict who chew all day
Mike Teavee  the child who loves TV and guns
Grandpa Joe  the grandpa of Charlie who accompanies him with his tour

SETTING:

The story happened on a winter, in a place where everyone loves chocolates and sweets.

SUMMARY:

(1)The family of Charlie Bucket has seven members -- his father and his mother, his grandparents on both father and mother side, and the young Charlie himself – yet they live in a small house and they are very poor. But despite their status in life, the young Charlie is not asking for anything… Anything else but chocolate… So sad he cannot buy even one for himself when in fact just a short walk from home there stood an enormous chocolate factory.

(2)Charlie was curious of the chocolate factory and its owner Willy Wonka so he ask his Grandpa Joe to tell him stories about the factory and its owner. Charlie found out that the factory is the most successful and the biggest in the world and that it has strange stories.

(3)Grandpa Joe told Charlie about the story of Willy Wonka and the Indian Prince. He said that the prince ask Mr. Wonka to build a castle out of chocolates. Mr. Wonka did so but he warned the prince that it will not stay long. Mr. Wonka was right because on a very hot day the castle started to melt.

(4)The following night Charlie comes to Grandpa Joe again to hear another story. It is the story about the factory workers whom nobody has seen in the past ten years. Rumors say that those workers are tiny little fellows not any taller than an average man’s knee. (5)The Wonka factory is to be opened at last but only to five lucky children who would be able to find any of the five golden tickets hidden within five Wonka chocolates and/or candies. This announcement excites the Bucket family but there hope dropped when they remember that the young Charlie gets only one Wonka chocolate per year on his birthday.

(6)The next day, the first ticket was found by an enormously fat boy named Augustus Gloop. And suddenly, just a day before Charlie’s birthday, the second ticket was found. The second finder was a very rich spoiled brat called Veruka Salt.

(7)Its Charlie’s birthday and the young boy is so excited… At last he can have a Wonka chocolate. The Bucket family knew they cannot expect this one chocolate to have a golden ticket. Charlie slowly tear open the wrapper of the chocolate and when he look at what’s inside there lies his chocolate, no more no less.

(8)That very night on Charlie’s birthday, another two tickets were found. One was found by Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted girl who chews gums all day long. The other one was found by Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television.

(9)The next day, Grandpa Joe secretly gave money to Charlie to buy a Wonka candy in the hope that they will find the last ticket but they still don’t have any luck at all. Despite this, the two enjoyed eating their candy together.

(10)Then, there comes the time of starvation for the Bucket’s when Mr. Bucket lost his job. They are not abundant of food before but now the situation get worst. Little Charlie is starving and so he decided to try to lessen his activities that would exhaust him. On a winter day, while Charlie was on his way home from school he found a piece of paper lying in the gutter, in the snow. The paper was a dollar bill.

(11)Charlie decided to buy a bar of chocolate and gave all the other money to his mother. Charlie entered a sweetshop and treats himself a chocolate he ate it as soon as he opened the wrapper then he take one more, just one more. At last, the fifth and last gold ticket was found by the starving boy named Charlie Bucket.
(12)Little Charlie told his family the good news. Because of happiness, Grandpa Joe leaps out of bed and dance (he has not done this for how many years). When they read what was written on the ticket, it says there that the day of the visit will be on the following day and each ticket holder can bring with them one or two family members. It was then decided that Grandpa Joe will be the one to accompany Charlie.

(13)When the big day arrives a lot of spectators are gathered in front the gates of the factory. There stood the five lucky gold ticket holders and the grown ups who would accompany them.

(14)At exactly ten o’clock the large gates started to open up and there stood the energetic Mr. Willy Wonka himself to welcome his guests.

(15)To start the tour, Mr. Willy Wonka showed them the heart of his business, the Chocolate Room. What they saw is a very lovely valley made entirely of candies. It even has a man made falls of melted chocolate.

(16)As all the guests were busy tasting everything in the room, Violet saw the tiny Oompa-Loompas –the mysterious little workers of the factory.

(17)While Mr. Wonka is relating to them the story of the Oompa-Loompas, Augustus (the fat boy) is drinking from the falls. Mr. Wonka tried to stop him, the chocolate must not be touch, and Augustus is dirtying them. But then, Augustus did not listen, he lean forward to the falls and he then fall. After some time, he was sucked by the chocolate pump to the fudge room and his parents have to follow him there.

(18)To go to the next room, they have to ride on the candy boat down the chocolate river. After a while they stopped in front of the Inventing Room.

(19)The room is where Mr. Wonka is inventing new kinds of candies and chocolates and sweets so before they get inside Mr. Wonka ask them to behave especially the no tasting policy.

(20)In the center of the room lies the pride of Mr. Wonka, the gum making machine. He showed them his latest gum invention. Just a tiny little strip of that gum is a three-course dinner it self.

(21) Unfortunately, upon hearing the word gum, Violet (the gum addict) forget the no tasting policy and then snatch the gum from Mr. Wonka and started chewing it. As the name says, it is indeed a three-course meal. Violet first tasted the warm tomato soup running down her throat, then the tender and juicy roast beef with the crispy and buttery baked potato (while she’s chewing Mr. Wonka is telling her to spit it out), lastly the blueberry pie and cream for dessert. Then, there it is, Violet turned violet and swell like a blueberry that they have to take her to the juicing room to juice her out.

(22)Two children are gone from the tour; only three were left together with the grown-ups. They walk down the long corridor again passing a lot of rooms until they stop to a particular one just to take a look.

(23)They stopped to see the square candies (with painted faces) that look round. There’s no arguing about it. They really are square candies and they look round to see whose coming. They rush on again down the long corridor until they reach the Nut Room.

(24) In the Nut Room, there are a hundred of trained squirrels who do the job of opening walnuts for Mr. Wonka. These squirrels can tell a bad nut from the good nuts. Veruca (the brat) asked her father to get her a trained squirrel but he refused knowing that Mr. Wonka won’t sell his precious squirrels. The girl runs towards one of the squirrels. But before she can grab it, all the squirrels grabbed her and pin her down lying on the floor while the leader of the squirrels started tapping her head and decided to throw her off the garbage chute because she’s a bad nut.

(25)Seeing that everybody is tired, Mr. Wonka decided to use the glass elevator that can go any directions you can imagine. Mr. Wonka allowed the children to choose which room to visit next and Mike chooses the Television-Chocolate Room.

(26)In this room, Mr. Wonka is testing how to deliver chocolate bars through television. He even showed them a demonstration when he sent a huge chocolate bar to a TV located on the opposite side of the room. He even asked Charlie to grab the chocolate and eat it.

(27)But Mike (the TV addict) wants to try it, literally. He wants to be the first person to be sent through a television. There’s no stopping him, he do as he wanted. The process was successful he was sent to the TV but when his father grab him he was so tiny that he have to be sent to the stretch room to bring him back to his original size. And so the fourth child was gone. Only Charlie and Grandpa Joe were left to continue the tour.

(28)After seeing that only Charlie was left, he congratulates him and in hurry they rode the glass elevator. Mr. Wonka was the one to choose the button and he press Up and Out. In no time, they were outside the factory and they can see all the other four children on there way home.

(29)They saw Augustus who’s now thin after being squeezed in the chocolate pipe. There’s Violet, who’s de-juiced already yet she still have that violet color all over her skin. They can also see Veruca and her parents all covered with garbage. Lastly there goes Mike who looks like a walking stick after all the stretching he get. Each of the children was followed by a big truck filled with their very own supply of the Wonka sweets.

(30)The three of them -- Mr. Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe – were still riding on the glass elevator when Mr. Wonka told them the big surprise. Charlie, will inherit the entire factory as a reward and he is allowed to bring with him his entire family and they don’t have to worry no more about food or shelter.

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