Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The story opens in Charlie Bucket's house, which is described as "a small wooden house on the edge of a great town." Dahl says that it wasn't large enough for all seven people who lived there;...

The main conflict rests on which of the five children will inherit Willy Wonka's fortune and chocolate factory. The resolution is not unexpected: Charlie Bucket, a boy from an impoverished family,...

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,...

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...

The Oompa-Loompas are introduced to readers at the very end of chapter fifteen, and the answer to this question can be found at the very start of chapter sixteen. Mr. Wonka states that the...

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...

The core of the problem is money. Those who have it (Willy Wonka, primarily) do not know who to trust or else they abuse it (as is evidenced by so many of the other children and their families)....

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, five children receive a golden ticket inside the label of a Wonka candy bar. This ticket entitles them to a tour of the Wonka factory, which...

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...

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...

While the children are touring the chocolate factory, Mr. Wonka opens what is called the the Chocolate door, warning the children not to get too excited at what they see. On the other side of the...

There are seven members of the Bucket family. They include Charlie, the main character in the book; Grandpa Joe Bucket; Grandma Josephine Bucket, Joe's wife; Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It's Charlie Bucket's birthday, which is the only time of year when he gets to taste a bit of chocolate. This year is no exception, as Charlie's dirt-poor relatives have somehow managed to club...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The story begins by introducing readers to the Bucket family. Charlie, his parents, and his four grandparents all live in the same house, and they are extremely poor. There isn't a lot of hope in...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

As Mr. Wonka takes the children on the tour of his wondrous chocolate factory, he shows them his chocolate waterfall and tells them that he processes chocolate at a huge volume: Thousands of...

When Grandpa Joe learns that he will be accompanying his grandson Charlie to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, he is overcome with excitement. He cries "Yippeeeeee!" and "Hallelujah!" and dances...