Who are the members of the Bucket family in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

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, his grandparents on his mother's side; and Charlie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket. All of the grandparents are over 90 years old.

The family is very poor and lives in a small wood house with only one bed. The four grandparents share the bed, which is in its own room, while Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor of the other room, where drafts make it freezing in the winter. The family is very poor, and Charlie often has a "horrible empty feeling" because of not getting enough to eat. The family diet is primarily bread, cabbage, and potatoes, with a small candy bar once a year for Charlie.

Despite their poverty, this is a very loving family. Every evening Charlie goes into this grandparents' room. This lights up the lives of the four grandparents because they all love Charlie dearly. Everyday, they look forward to him coming to them at night. While he sits with them and his parents stand at the door, the grandparents tell lively stories. This helps all the family members forget they are hungry.

Who lives with Charlie Bucket in "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 modern era, the impoverished conditions of Charlie's living situation call to mind a Victorian London, similar to the city portrayed by Charles Dickens in his novels. This is a London where people live in desperate conditions, and something as simple as a bar of chocolate is seen as a luxurious treat.

In the film adaptation called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie does not appear to have a father living at home; this underlines his role as the "man of the house" and this portrayal makes his attempt to win the golden ticket even more important, because it is seen as a way to lift his family out of poverty. In the film version as in the novel, Charlie's mother works hard taking care of his grandparents who are all elderly and bedridden, although lively and loving as a family.