Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

...we come at last to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of Roald Dahl's most richly imaginative stories that barely conceals a few moral lessons and dire warnings for children and adults alike. For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public. In reality this is not quite true because, to be exact only five very lucky members of the public will gain access. The lucky five ...
...Willy Wonka himself. For young Charlie Bucket, this is a dream come true. And, when he finds a dollar bill in the street, he can't help but buy two Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights, even though his impoverished family could certainly use the extra dollar for food. This is a gloriously protracted few moments of unbearable suspense for children and Dahl milks it for all it is worth with ill concealed glee. Charlie carefully unwraps ...

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...do just that !! Charlie Bucket lives with his two, elderly, frail, sets of grandparents and his Mum and Dad in a tiny, wooden shack on the outskirts of a large town. They are extremely poor, they live on mainly boiled potatoes and cabbage...yeeuk..so probably pens and inks a little in there !! Charlie longs for chocolate every day, this is made worse for him as he lives very close to an enormous chocolate factory. This must be torture for the little ...
...full of love for little Charlie and you know that, if they could, they would give him anything he wanted. Roald Dahl's descriptions of each family member is fabulous, and you can picture each and every one of them in your minds as real people, in particular the frail, bony, skeletal grandparents ! Grandpa Joe thrills Charlie with his wonderful stories, and in turn, Grandpa is thrilled to see the little boy's eyes alight when he hears his stories, ...

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is probably the best known and most loved book of all Roald Dahl's stories. The story has recently been brought back to centre stage by the recent film now out on DVD. For me the first time I came across Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was when it was read out on TV on a programme called Jackanory. For those of you too young to remember Jackanory used to be on BBC1 and they would have a different person read from ...
...character in the novel is Charlie Bucket a young boy who comes from a poor family. He lives in a little wooden house with his parents and both sets of grandparents. There is only one bed and both sets of grandparents stay in the bed! The family often go hungry and there is one thing more than anything that Charlie longs to have - Chocolate!! Every year on his birthday the family would save up their money and buy him one chocolate bar which he would ...

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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY This book is really aimed at children between the ages of 7yrs-12yrs of age, although I have read it again recently and I still really enjoy it and I am 33yrs old so I think anyone could enjoy this at any age as it is a real classic story. I think this is a book every child should read and preferably read before they see the film. The reason I say this is because I think this is a book that would really stimulate ...
...based on a boy called Charlie who comes from a very poor family. He is not greedy or selfish in anyway - he cherishes everything he has and when he receives just one bar of chocolate for his birthday present (the only bar of chocolate he will have all year), he treasures it like it is gold and eats it slowly making it last a whole month. When it is announced that there will be 5 lucky winners in the whole world who will get to go into the largest ...

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...write of the adventures of Charlie Bucket! As Roald Dahl himself once said, 'The job of a children's writer is to try to write a book that is so exciting and fast and wonderful that the child falls in love with it.' This is EXACTLY what happens in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You see Charlie Bucket is just a normal boy, living with his parents (and four grandparents who happen to have stayed in bed for twenty years), going to school and loving ...
...spend their days telling little Charlie of the great Mr Willy Wonka, the greatest, most brilliant chocolate inventor of all time. When the announcement is made that five golden tickets have been hidden in five Wonka chocolate bars giving five lucky children the chance of a guided tour round the factory that no one has entered for nearly twenty years, the whole family knows that Charlie, who can afford only one bar of chocolate a year on his birthday ...

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...write this book review on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for many reasons, mainly sentimental. When I was young, this used to be my favourite all time book, as it contained such imagination and wonder. However, I hasten to add at this point, that I do not like the film of this book, as I think it mutilates the story in quite a considerable way. I last read this story again two weeks ago, to my 8 year old cousin, who had only read the poems of ...
...and shows Mr. Wonka and Charlie surrounded by sweets. The text inside is printed in a good sized print, perfect for children who are developing fluency in reading. The book is well laid out in chapters, making it clear to read. What I do also like is how some of the text is set out in a different style to the rest of the book, like the newspaper article in it, to separate it from the main text. I think that the illustrations in this book are superb, ...

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...Young Charlie Bucket lives with his parents, Mr and Mrs Bucket, and his two sets of grandparents; Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina. Each of those elderly people are over 90 years old. The family are extremely poor and live in a small wooden house just on the edge of the town. Only Mr Bucket has a job, screwing the lids on toothpaste and it doesn't pay enough to keep everyone well fed. They live off bread and margarine ...
...despair in their lives, particularly Charlie who wants something else to eat. He would especially love some chocolate. It just so happens that there is a chocolate factory nearby, owned by the mysterious Willy Wonka. Charlie listens to his grandparents's stories about Mr Wonka and his factory and he gets one Wonka bar a year on his birthday which he savours and eats slowly so that it lasts nearly a month. The factory is very mysterious as well. ...

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...books as a child, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, James and the Giant Peach, but the first one was one of my favourite books. Now, my children love his books too. My ten year old has a large collection of his work, but these days, I am not too impressed. I find a lot of the humour rather silly and annoying, but I suppose I have just grown out of it. My kids rave about The Twits, but I just find it ...
...favourite of his books - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is quite an easy read and I would recommend it for six to eleven year olds, although it can be enjoyed by all ages. The story is about a boy called Charlie, who wins a trip round the chocolate factory, along with four other children - Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee. They go on the tour, led by the eccentric Willy Wonka. The factory has many strange rooms ...

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...I went scurrying back to Charlie and his exploits and read the book again before I went to the cinema. Roald Dahl taps into the great Brothers Grimm tradition of story-telling. His most famous works are all a little dark, to say the least- people are squelched and squished, they eat worms, and, yes, they do die. No wide-eyed Disney fluffiness for Roald (the death of Mustafa in The Lion King was the first explicit screen death in a Disney feature- ...
...of the Wonka Chocolate Factory. Charlie loves chocolate but his family are poor, and he gets but one bar a year, on his birthday. When Wonka announces that five lucky children will be allowed to visit his factory when they find one of the lucky Golden Tickets, chaos ensues. But not all the children are as lucky, or as worthy, as Charlie... It's essentially a sweet little story (no pun intended) with a crisp moral edge that Dahl ties up with grotesquity ...

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...am a grate fan of Charlie and the chocolate factory; I have been ever since the age of 5. This magical story has been written by one of my favourite authors (Roald Dahl), it is about a young adventurous boy named Charlie who is given the opportunity to vist a chocolate factory owned by a man called Mr Wonker. Charlie had won this opportunity from a chocolate bar with a lucky ticket inside it for the trip to the Factory. Charlie was absolutely delighted ...
...of these tickets around. Fortunately Charlie was one of the people to come so close and to win the ticket and also this ticket was the only one left to be won around. As the ticket said that a person could go along with the winner Charlie decided to take along his granddad. Before all of the places were taken up for the winning trip to the chocolate factory, people were going mad buying the chocolate to see if they had a winning ticket, this was ...

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...Roald Dahl's childrens' stories... Charlie Bucket lives with his mother and two sets of parents in a run down hovel... Extremely poor, they all live in one room with the grandparents sharring one bed - two at the top and two at the bottom. They live on a dish of boiled veg leaves and bread if they're lucky. One day a wonderful competition is announced. Willy Wonka the chocolate factory woner has placed five golden tickets in his Wonka Bars. The ...
...chocolate. I won't give too much away, but needless to say, this brings out man's greed in all it's glory. Everyone wants a ticket, no matter what the consequences. In the end it's mild, gentle, reliable charlie who comes out on top... A really wonderful story... ...

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...three favourite Roald Dahl books; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and The Witches. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory centres on Charlie Buckett, a child from a very poor family who are starving. Charlie wins a ticket to visit Willy Wonka?s Chocolate factory along with four spoilt children. The other children are very greedy and naughty and all meet with accidents whilst touring the factory. Charlie who is well behaved through out is ...
...and his family to live in the factory and take over the running of the factory when he becomes too old. "The book proved to be a world best seller, but has attracted averse criticism for the supposed racism in the portrayal of the Oompa Loompas [pigmy people who work in the factory] and for the depiction of Charlie?s geriatric grandparents" (Carpenter & Pritchard 1984). The story is a moral tale, where the poor child who has nothing is rewarded for ...

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...The story is about Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who can only have a chocolate bar once a year. And most kids think they've got it bad? Maybe this is Roald Dahl's way of teaching them. Anyway, Charlie lives in a run down house with his Father, Mother and four Grandparents. They live on cabbage soup and bread. To make things worse, they live right next to Willy Wonkas amazing chocolate factory. Willy Wonka decides to run a competition. He puts five ...
...in the world. These tickets will gain the person entry to the legendary factory for one dayand meet the workers that have never been seen going in or out of the factory. They also get a lifetimes supply of sweets. As might be expected, the kids who win the tickets are all brats (except for Charlie). The Oompa Loompas (and Wonka) seem to find it funny to teach these kids a lesson. The songs that the Oompa Loompas sing are hilarious. As they are going ...

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...The story centres around Charlie who lives a difficult life which makes the kids (which is what this book is aimed at) appreciate the things that they have. The fact that he is a good boy and considerate also makes the readers realise that what goes around comes around so if you are good and behave and are considerate then good things will happen to you. Charlie is one of 5 children who wins the chance to go round the chocolate factory The other ...
...bad kids. At the end Charlie is the one left and he is given the ultimate prize of the factory as Willie Wonka has decided that he needs to pass it on to a child to look after. This book is great for kids as it really shows them the way that good kids are rewarded and shows them the downfalls of greed. Every child should read this and everyone should own a copy. I still have mine!!! ...

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tells the story of the young, poverty struck Charlie Bucket who has the good fortune to find one of five golden tickets allowing the winners to enter the until-then unentered (for 20 years) Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, home to the eccentric Willy Wonka, a horde of all-singing all-dancing Oompa Loompas, and rooms upon rooms of delicious and incredible sweets and chocolate. Willy Wonka's creations include edible ...
...to your television. With Charlie goes his Uncle Joe, and the four other ticket winners, all of whom are equally unlikeable. One by one the children get into trouble when they touch things they shouldn' t - which child will be the one left standing at the end of the tour and the winner of the grand prize and a magical ride in the great glass elevator? Willy Wonka makes the most incredible edibles and this book is mouthwateringly full of Roald Dahl's ...

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