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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
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26/11/00 (191 review reads) |
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Advantages: great story, humorous
Disadvantages: pictures aren't very clear
Charlie lives with his parents and grandparents in a little hut on the edge of a town. The family have little food and can't buy much things for little Charlie, not even a proper bed.
Charlie does his best to keep his family comfortable. He puts every cent he earns into food for his realitives. Although he would much rather like to spend his money on things like candy. Charlie dreams for better things for his family, and when the mysterious Wonka Chocolate Factory starts a contest where the grand prize winner gets a lifetime supply of chocolate, Charlie sees his chance to break his family out of poverty.
There are five golden tickets to freedom hidden in Wonka Chocolate. These chocolate bars are shipped all around the world. Whoever finds the golden ticket is entitled to a tour of the factory.
The Wonka contest has turned the world upsidedown. Candy stores are turned into war zones. Shop keepers cannot keep the candy on the shelves. People are crazed to try to find the golden tickets.
It is not long at all for the first Golden Ticket to turn up. A boy named Augustus Gloop is the lucky finder. Augustus is a big, BIG boy. When he is asked how he feels about finding the ticket he replies, "I feel sorry for Wonka. Its going to cost him a foutune in fudge."
When Charlie's birthday comes, his Grandfathers pitch in to get him a Wonka bar. Charlie eagerly opens the wrapping to find only chocolate.
We are then introduced to Veruca Salt. She is the next Golden Ticket finder. A very demanding daughter of a sucsesful business man. Mr. Salt has stopped the regular work at his factory so he could have his workers open case after case of Wonka bars. Veruca is not pleased that she hasn't been given the Golden Ticket that her father promiced her. Finally one of the workers finds Golden Ticket number two and is escorted through the factory to put the Golden Ticket in the waiting hands of the impatient littl
e Veruca.
All over the world stores are sold out. Shipments are now being moved in armored cars with armed guards. People are going to extreme lengths to get the Golden Tickets. Newly developed computers have even been used to try to locate the Golden Tickets.
Ticket number three is soon discovered in the USA. Violet Beaureguard, the daughter of a used car salesman, and avid gum chewer heard about the contest and decided that her gum chewing could wait. Now that she has the Golden Ticket, she is back on her gum.
Charlie still hasn't found his Golden Ticket yet. He is starting to get pretty down on himself. His mom tries to "Cheer Up Charlie" but when a small boy thinks that his hopes and dreams are out of reach there isn't much she can do.
Golden Ticket number four is discovered by Mike Teevee. The news interviewers can't get his attention away from the television set. His mother explains that that's all he does is watch television.
The next day on his way home from school Charlie finds some money in the street. He decides to reward himself by feeding his sweet tooth. He buys the biggest bar of chocolate he can find, and eats it right away. As he is leaving, he decides to get Grandpa Joe a Wonks bar with the rest of the money.
Charlie walks away from the crowd and gets out the Wonka bar that he bought for Grandpa Joe. He slowly opens it and to his shock as well as the people around him, he has found the fifth Golden Ticket! Charlie runs straight home. A man stops Charlie. He offers Charlie a great sum of money if Charlie would just bring him a new invention from the Wonka Factory, an "Everlasting Gobstopper". Charlie runs home even faster, and bursts through the door shouting that he has the fifth Golden Ticket.
Charlie desperately wants Grandpa Joe to go the Factory with him. Grandpa Joe slowly gets out of bed and discovers that he can still walk. They dance arou
nd the small house and celebrate their good fortune and prepare for the factory tour the next day.
The tour goes very well for little Carlie and his family. All the otehr children are in some way spoilta nd bad, and they all end up going home empty handed. Charlie on the otehr hand, goes home with ten entire factory on his hands! This exciting stroy continues in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
This book is full of humour and the sentences are very interesting and decribing. The pictures in the book aren't very clear though, you acn't see them properly. Other than that, there is no other faukt in this book.
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ariane - 25/02/01 A brilliant book, thanks for the op :) |
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