Originally posted 6 July 2020
Like Ursula Kohaupt once said, “Chocolate is happiness that you can eat.” Chocolate is a goodie that many love to eat, ranging from children to old people. For me chocolate is like the love of my life. I truly wish I had a chocolate factory so that I could have as much as I desired too. Well, I may not have one but I know a world renowned chocolate maker who owns one! Do you know who it is? Mr Willy Wonka from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Charlie and Great Glass Elevator, of course.
The story in the above books unfolds so beautifully that you get teleported into Charlie’s world and get the first hand experience of everything that happens through the tale and please don’t get me started how humorously the story is narrated! It was one of my favorite childhood books that regardless of how many times I read it, I never lost interest in it. Call me childish for liking the book, but I just can’t help it!
The Roald Dahl classic ‘Charlie And The Chocolate factory’ revolves around 5 children namely Charlie Bucket, Violet Beauregarde, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee, who win a golden opportunity to visit the world renowned chocolate factory belonging to Mr. Willy Wonka, a man of enigma.
The story opens with the narrator introducing us to the characters of the story and describing the poor and shabby living conditions of Charlie’s family, know as the Buckets. Most days the whole family used to go hungry, especially little Charlie. To make his blues worse, there is a huge chocolate factory belonging to Mr Willy Wonka near his house, the one food he craved for the most in the whole wide world.
However, little Charlie never got a chocolate bar except on his birthday, for his parents couldn’t afford it . One day, Grandpa Joe tells him about the legendary chocolate maker, Willy, and all the mind-boggling treats he used to make until the competitors stole Wonka’s secret, which left him no choice but to close the factory to outsiders.
To Charlie’s suprise the very next day, Mr Willy Wonka announces that he is re-opening the factory and has invited five children to come on a tour to his chocolate factory, who get to see all the magic, if they find a Golden Ticket inside a Wonka chocolate bar. But within the next few days the first 4 tickets are found by spoilt, ill-mannered and pampered kids.
Poor Charlie and his family had no hope of finding a Golden ticket as Charlie only gets a bar a year and these kids bought 100s of chocolate bars! Although the adults advised Charlie not to lose hope while opening the bar, they knew Charlie didn’t stand a chance! A few days later, while wandering about Charlie sees a 50 pence on the street, he quickly picks it up, and looks around to see whether it belongs to anyone, when he understands it doesn’t, he runs to the nearest shop and buys a Wonka Bar only to find the final golden ticket.
He gets offers from many people but he refuses to give it to anybody on the command of the kind shopkeeper. The next day Charlie & Grandpa Joe head-off to Mr Wonka’s Factory, for the tour they were promised, but what they didn’t know is that the real adventure was just about to begin. Hop on and join Charlie Bucket on this wonderful (and delicious) adventure of his.
I recommend you to go grab yourself a copy of this book, a few chocolate bars & get completely lost in it!
Yours,
Sameeksha