STORY

Extract:

Charlie is a young boy living in a tiny wooden house at the edge of a big city with his parents and his grandparents. They are constantly hungry.

One day the newspaper reveals that Mr. Wonka has decided to open up his factory again to a lucky few. He has hidden five golden tickets inside his chocolate bars. And shipped them all over the world. The five children who find the golden tickets will be invited to his factory and will receive a lifetime supply of chocolate.

Two weeks later, Charlie finds a dollar lying in the street, and excitedly uses it to buy two Wonka bars. He does it because he is hungry, not because he wants a golden ticket. However, he unwraps the second bar to reveal nothing less than a golden ticket! He has found the fifth golden ticket.

The following day is the factory tour day. Charlie choses to bring his grandpa with him, because he used to love Wonka’s candy and sweets. The other four children have all brought their parents. Mr. Wonka comes out of the factory to greet them, and Charlie is amazed about Mr. Wonka. He takes them into the factory.

They start with the chocolate room, an enormous room containing a valley of grass and plants made of marshmallow, and a chocolate river. Up the river, there is a chocolate waterfall. Augustus Gloop begins to grasp fistfuls of chocolate from the river, and does not stop when Mr. Wonka tells him to. Suddenly he falls into the river and is sucked into a tube that carries the chocolate away.

After the chocolate room, they go to the inventions room, where Wonka shows them his new invention: chewing gum that tastes like a full, three course meal. Because it is gum, Violet Beauregarde insists on trying it, despite Wonka’s warning. When she gets to the dessert: blueberry pie and ice cream, her skin starts to turn blue and she blows up like a blueberry.

Next, is the nut room, where hundred of squirrels work to shell walnuts from their shells. Veruca wants to get a pet squirrel, and tries to grab one, but they knock her down and throw her out the garbage tube because of her bad behaviour.

Charlie and Mike Teavee are the last ones left.

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