Resumo de Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

The only time that Charlie Bucket ever gets a taste of chocolate is on his birthday, when his family save up to buy him a small bar, which he would then make last for over a month.

Charlie?s family are so poor, that both sets of grandparents all sleep in the same bed, and Charlie and his parents sleep on matresses on the floor. They live on a diet of cabbage, boiled potatoes and bread and butter, except for Charlie?s annual treat of chocolate, which he loves most of all.

Unfortunately for Charlie, there is a local chocolate factory near his house, which he has to pass every day on his way to school, which sends out a smell of delicious melting chocolate every day. This is torture for poor Charlie, and he desparately wants to be able to go inside the factory. Charlie hears all kinds of amazing stories from his grandparents about the chocolate that is made in the factory, and how Willy Wonka, the factory?s owner, invents incredible chocolate and sweets. But they also tell him that there is something very mysterious about the factory, for they have never seen any workers go in or out. Small shadows can be seen behind the windows, but nobody knows who or what these tiny workers are?

When Willie Wonka opens the doors of his factory to five lucky children who find a golden ticket in a bar of chocolate, Charlie feels his chances of finding one are hopeless, especially when four of the tickets are found by what seem to be rather obnoxious children. However, when Charlie finds a half-crown in the gutter, he spends it on two bars of chocolate, and finds the final ticket.

Inside the factory, Charlie and the other children and parents, are shown an extraordinary place with vast underground rooms with rivers of chocolate, edible sweet grass and buttercups and small pygmy workers called Oompa-Loompas.

One by one, the other children succumb to their own selfish desires: Fat Augustus falls into the chocolate river in his desire to drink the chocolate and gets sucked up into the machinery; in the machine room Violet, obsessed with chewing gum, eats a piece of gum that is in the testing process, turns blue and blows up like a balloon; Spoilt Veruca tries to steal a squirrel and gets thrown down a rubbish chute by the other squirrels along with her parents; Mike, the TV maniac, ends up in miniature when he tries to send himself through Wonka?s special television that sends chocolate to your TV screen. Each time something happens to one of the children, they are taken away and the Oompa-Loompas sing a moralistic song.

Finally, only Charlie and his grandfather are left. Mr Wonka congratulates Charlie and announces that he has won the competition. Very excited, he invites them back into the glass lift they have used to travel through the factory and presses a button labelled UP AND OUT. The lift shoots upwards and upwards, and finally breaks right through the roof of the factory and into the sky. From their position they can see the other children leaving the building, all slightly changed?

But next, Mr Wonka lets Charlie in for a big surprise. Charlie?s prize for winning the competition is something that he couldn?t possibly have dreamed of ? and Charlie and his family will never again have another hungry day.

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