Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Townsend, John Rowe (1974). Written for Children: an outline of English-language children's literature. Harmondsworth: Kestrel Books. p.255. ISBN 0722654669. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 August 2016. Willy Wonka, the owner of the chocolate factory, a man who makes Charles Montgomery Burns look reasonable, holds a competition to allow a small number of children into his factory to select one of them to be his successor. And in the process of these peregrinations, the disagreeable children mentioned above eventually face the consequences of their bad behaviour – always because of choices that they make while in the chocolate factory. When one child falls into the chocolate river and gets pushed up a chocolate pipe, Willy Wonka blithely assures the child’s mother, “Keep calm, my dear lady, keep calm. There is no danger! No danger whatsoever!...A most interesting little journey. But he’ll come out of it just fine, you wait and see” (p. 75). His cheerfulness during these passages from the novel is at once endearing and disturbing. And Willy Wonka’s employees, the Oompa-Loompas – “tiny men…no larger than medium-sized dolls” (p. 68), rescued by Willy Wonka from starvation in their home of Loompaland and brought to work at the factory – serve as a sort of chorus; each time a child undergoes some sort of reversal as a result of their greed or selfishness, the Oompa-Loompas are there to sing a song about the vice that has undone the child, as when they sing about the habit of gum-chewing: Charlie popped the sweet in his mouth. It had a curious taste which reminded him of cheese, tulips and something he couldn't name, but somehow it was quite delicious. In a moment he had gobbled it up.

Masters, Tim (21 June 2013). "How Douglas Hodge shaped Willy Wonka for the stage". BBC News . Retrieved 1 May 2021. As with Roald Dahl's other audiobooks, this was a full production. The sound effects just made this book go from a 4.5 to a 5. Seriously! Charlie’s grandparents were ‘as shrivelled as prunes’ and ‘as bony as skeletons’. Can you think of other similes to describe things? National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Archived from the original on 20 September 2012 . Retrieved 19 August 2012. a b c d "The Vanilla Fudge Room". Roald Dahl Archive. 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016 . Retrieved 12 August 2016.Her Oompa-Loompa song include a set of stanzas regarding how one gum-chewing woman starting chewing in her sleep, accidentally chewed her tongue off and lives in an asylum - it gets pretty dark, pretty fast. I really wonder what Dahl had against gum... Symon, Evan V. (14 January 2013). "10 Deleted Chapters that Transformed Famous Books". listverse.com. Write a biography for Willy Wonka? Where was he born? What was his life like when he was growing up? What amazing adventures has he had throughout his life? Charlotte Higgins (31 January 2006). "From Beatrix Potter to Ulysses ... what the top writers say every child should read". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014.

In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books that every child should read. [31] A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton wrote: "I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults." [32] [33] Isn't it wonderful?" asked Willy Wonka. "Haven't the Oompa-Loompas done a fine job? I particularly liked their poems. Quite perfect, don't you agree?"

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I was surprised to see that neither of the films came close to Dahl’s text. Dahl’s Willy Wonka is a dark creature who killed children, crushed their bones and baked them into the candy bars. Kara K. Keeling; Scott T. Pollard (15 December 2008). Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp.221–. ISBN 978-0-203-88891-9 . Retrieved 28 July 2013.