Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
(Roald Dahl)
Roald Dahl, one of the most read irish authors in the world, writes in 1964 a book that hasn?t lost yet any of it charm, both for children as for adults, for more than four decades. Charlie is a very poor boy, in the middle of a kind family; lives with his father, mother and grandparents. He loves chocolate and fancies one day, be able to see inside chocolatier Willi Wonka? s factory which happens to be just next to his unsettled house. No one knows who the factory workers are (even Charlie?s grandfather Joe, had work there many years ago) although the factory continues to supply every shops all over the world. One day his owner announces that he?ll aloud five children to enter the factory and know it secrets. The five winner tickets will be hide inside random chocolate bars, and Charlie ? that only in his birthday has the chance to taste this candy ? will be after all one of the lucky winners. The other that with him will share this adventure, are child examples of misbehaving and what adults money power can bring: a very gluttonous kid; a spoiled girl whose father allows everything; a mean girl only concern about her trophies earned in chewing gum contests, and a cunning boy who thinks is the clever one. Every one of them, except Charlie will leave the factory sooner, because of their faults. Grandpa goes with Charlie along the factory and they have the chance to know the incredible creatures that work there with all kind of gadgets invented by Willi Wonka, a great demonstration of Dahl?s genius imagination. Between Willie and Charlie begins to grow an intense relationship ? now that Wonka is also a very unconventional character, that hasn?t came out of his factory for years (bringing up to mind another archetype of fantastic tales, (like the Ogre isolated in a frozen garden, to which the kindness off a children brings up again happiness) and hides a childhood full of conflicts with his own father. When finally Willi Wonka revels the real purpose of the contest - to find an heir for his chocolate empire ? choosing Charlie, the boy declines the proposition, in order to remain close with his family. Each carather of the story will end this adventure forever changed, and so the reader?s too. Even being a moral fable ? like many in child literature ? Roald Dahl creates a story that overcomes the simple pedagogic purpose. The approach with this author?s esthetic, that in each one of his texts combines like very few, the respect for children intelligence, his humor, and imagination, is the best ?lesson? that the reader can get. ?Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? is an unmissable book for all those who bet on a noncommercial literature both for children and adults.
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