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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie's family is exceedingly poor. It is revealed early on in the story that no matter how hard Charlie's father works, he still could barely...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tells the story of eleven-year-old Charlie Bucket, who lives in poverty with his parents and four bed-ridden grandparents who all share the same bed. Charlie’s...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Grandpa Joe is elderly and spends most of his time in bed, but he is youthful at heart. Grandpa Joe is the one who tells Charlie stories about the wonderful things inside Willy Wonka's chocolate...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
We are not given a particular setting for this story. We are told that it takes place in a "great town:" The whole of this family — the six grown-ups (count them) and little Charlie Bucket — live...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
When Charlie announces to his family, in chapter 12, that he has found the last golden ticket, his family is so shocked that they "all dropped their spoons with a clatter and froze against their...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie's grandparents are overwhelmed and overjoyed when Charlie reveals to them that he has won a golden ticket. His grandparents are bedridden and poor before Charlie tells them the good news....
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
When Charlie opens his birthday present, which is a Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight bar, he is in front of his four grandparents and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket. The six adults...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The first ticket is found by Augustus Gloop. Perhaps it isn't surprising that this clinically obese young German boy should've been the first to get his greedy hands on one of Willy Wonka's golden...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of the five children who had a golden ticket that entitled her to a tour of Mr. Wonka's factory was Violet Beauregarde. Violet's obnoxious habit was...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory five lucky children win golden tickets, giving them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit Willy Wonka's legendary candy manufacturing enterprise. First and...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Bucket, the protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, lives with his parents and both sets of his grandparents in a flat in London. Although the novel is set in the present, in the...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Two people have two problems: Willy Wonka wants to assure the continuation of his chocolate factory upon his demise, but he has no natural heir. So he must go out and "adopt" one. He...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Bucket comes from a very poor family. His folks barely have enough money for basic food, let alone luxuries like chocolate. All the other kids at school buy Wonka Bars like they're going...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka chose to invite five people into his factory because he wants to find someone he could trust to inherit and carry on his legacy. It is ironic that the five people who find golden...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Before they embarked upon a career in the manufacture of confectionery, they used to live in Loompaland. When Willy Wonka tells us what Loompaland is like, we can see why the Oompa-Loompas wanted...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I would argue that the three most important events, central to the plot, of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are the announcement of the golden ticket contest, when Charlie finds a golden ticket,...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has two main settings. The beginning of the story takes place mostly in Charlie's home. He shares a tiny, one-bedroom house with his two sets of grandparents....
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The main conflict of the book is not revealed until much later. Mr. Wonka wants someone to take over his business, but no one knows this. In order to go about this, he has a contest. He announces...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
An antihero, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, is defined as "a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities." In Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Exposition: Willy Wonka, a candy factory owner, had closed his factory's doors to the public for a long time. One day, it is revealed that he plans to open the doors once again, but only to a...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie is admirable because he is an unlikely hero. He is not selfish. He comes from nothing (poverty) in terms of financial wealth, but his wealth is in the relationship that he has with his...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mike Teavee is basically a huge, ungrateful brat. When it is announced that he won the fourth ticket, visitors flock to his house to congratulate him. He is watching TV, of course, so he gets...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Most definitely. Figures of speech are comparitive literary devices that are used by nearly all authors to describe and explain. You might want to consider how Dahl presents characters and uses...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
After hearing wonderful tales about Mr. Willy Wonka from his Grandpa Joe, Charlie Bucket dreams of seeing the inside of the elusive Mr. Wonka's chocolate factory. Wonka had shut his door to...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl tells of a boy who wins a tour of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, which ultimately leads him to inherit the factory from its eccentric owner, Willy...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
You can find the answer to this on the very first page of Chapter 23 which is entitled "Square Candies that Look Round." What the Oompa-Loompas are doing is painting faces on the candies. They...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Roald Dahl's young reader's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the character Augustus Gloop symbolizes the vice of gluttony. He is so glutinous that he is extremely self-serving, thinking...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In the first chapter we learn that the social conditions for the main characters, the Bucket family, in the book Charlie and Chocolate Factory, is extreme poverty. Mr. Bucket works in a factory...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In Roald Dahl's work of fiction, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, reclusive genius Willy Wonka has kept his business very secretive for many years. In order to stave off spies who might try to...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
It seems to me that with a book like this one, the best approach as an evaluation took about behavior would be in a reflective form. To get students to reflect about characters' actions in the...