Only Charlie remains at the end and therefore Wonka dubs him the winner of the challenge and names him the factory’s successor. Veruca Salt then gets attacked by squirrels and thrown into a garbage chute.įinally, Mike Teavee gets shrunken by the TVs. The Oompa Loompas sing songs after each character is taken away in comical, mysterious, and sometimes even painful ways! Augustus Gloop is lured into the chocolate lake but gets stuck accidentally, while Violet Beauregarde (an avid gum-chewer) turns into a giant blueberry after giving into the temptation of trying a stick of gum from Wonka. Wonka also announces that there will be one winner who will win a special prize at the end of the tour of the chocolate factory.Įach character’s flaws lead them to give into temptation and they are then taken away by the Oompa Loompas, except for Charlie, whose willpower is stronger than any of the other characters. Charlie finds one of the tickets in his chocolate bar and is then invited, along with four other people, to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory alongside winning a lifetime supply of his chocolate bars. He learns that there is a contest that requires a person to buy a Willy Wonka chocolate bar to find a Golden Ticket (there are only five of these worldwide). This novel is about a young boy named Charlie who lives a poor life. Well, for starters, the book is beautifully written and is about a little boy named Charlie who lives an impoverished life and gets to witness the materialistic nature of humanity by visiting Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

The movie has been watched by many, but what about the book? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, released in 2005, is a super-famous movie, with Johnny Depp starring as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore playing the protagonist (main character), Charlie Bucket. Roald Dahl has written many other books such as The BFG, Matilda, and George’s Marvellous Medicine – all of which have been reviewed by Little Stars. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an amazing book by the famous children’s author Roald Dahl adopted, which was adapted into a movie.

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