Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Synopsis:

This is a children’s fiction book about a young boy named Charlie Bucket who lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents. His town is home to Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in his Wonka bars and that the five children who find the tickets will win a tour of the factory. They are Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregard, and Mike Teavee.

Charlie finds the following ticket and invites his Grandpa Joe to go with him to the factory. The Oompa-Loompas help Willy Wonka run the factory. Augustus Gloop falls into the Chocolate River and is sucked up a pipe, Violet turns blue and into a giant blueberry, Veruca falls down a garbage chute after she tries to take one of the squirrels that tests the nuts, and Mike is shrunk to the size of a chocolate bar.

Charlie is the only one left at the end of the book, and he inherits the factory, and Willy Wonka invites the entire Bucket family to live in the factory with Charlie.

Review:

“There are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to take over from me, but I don’t want that sort of person. I don’t want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won’t listen to me; he won’t learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child.”

“However small the chance of striking lucky, the chance was there.”

“Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.”