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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a fantasy children’s literature by British author Roald Dahl. Charlie Bucket is a young boy who comes from a poor but loving family and would love nothing more than to find a golden ticket to enter the amazing chocolate factory run by inventor and owner Willy Wonka. As luck would have it, Charlie finds the last golden ticket and goes on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure with his grandpa Joe. Among the other four winners are Veruca Salt, a spoiled rich girl; Augustus Gloopy, a gluttonous kid who stuffs his face with sweets; Violet Beauregard, a champion trophy gum chewer; and Mike Teavee, a kid who spends more time watching TV and playing the video games than anything else. Most fascinating is the mysterious Willy Wonka who in turn had a troubled childhood and has a special grand prize at the end for one of the kids. Also along the tour are Wonka's staff the singing, working Oomph Loompas. A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in the five separate chocolate bars, causing the complete mayhem.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Overview

Five Golden Tickets are hidden in chocolate bars around the world, and those lucky few who find them get to spend a day at Mr. Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Young Charlie Bucket happens to be one of them, even though he only gets to buy one chocolate bar a year. At the factory, Charlie vies with four obnoxious children to win the ultimate prize.

Mr. Wonka

Brilliant, secretive owner of famous chocolate factory

Mike Teavee

Smart, pistol-packing American boy; television addict While trying to sample Television Chocolate, Mike gets stuck in a TV set and shrinks.

Augustus Gloop

Greedy, enormously fat boy; only cares about food At the factory, Augustus falls into the chocolate river while trying to drink from it.

Charlie

Poor, kind boy; innocent, thoughtful hero Charlie impresses Mr. Wonka with his humble behavior and is gifted the chocolate factory.

Veruca Salt

Spoiled rich girl; wants and expects to have everything When Veruca is not given a trained sorting squirrel, she tries to get one herself but disappears down the nut chute.

Violet Beauregrade

Loud, brash girl; trying to break a gum-chewing record Despite being warned, Violet chews the wrong gum at the factory—turning her into an enormous blueberry.

Numbers

10,000

Copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory sold in the United States in its first week

Children who visited Wonka's Chocolate Factory in an early draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Number of years between two of the film adaptations of the book—starring Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005 as Mr. Wonka

6 X 7

Dimensions in feet of Dahl's writing hut, where he wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Themes

Magic of Candy

Sweets are not an unhealthy vice—they are magical treats that tap into childhood experiences.

Goodness Prevails

Charlie's kindness and good manners win the day—and the factory—as his selfish peers fail.

Culture in Decline

Charlie's four fellow contestants embody the worst aspects of modern society, such as greed and selfishness.

Author

ROALD DAHL 1916-90

Througnout his life, Roald Dahl was a chocolate tester, an oil worker in Africa, a flying ace, a spy, a medical device coinventor, and a world-famous writer of children's books. He drew on his childhood passion for sweets while writing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.