The Labyrinthine Chocolate Factory
All people from kids to adults love chocolate. However, not many of them would’ve seen the inside of a chocolate factory. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, there’s an arcane chocolate factory which is owned by Mr. Wonka, a diminutive man who creates all the sweets in the factory. Before continuing more about the story, let’s go back to the start.
Charlie Bucket, the virtuous protagonist of the novel, lives with his family in a cramped wooden house on the edge of town. His family is living in poverty, with only father working in a small tooth-paste factory with 7 mouths to feed. Once a year, on his birthday, Charlie gets a chocolate bar which his poor family could just about afford. One day, Willy Wonka, the owner of the labyrinthine chocolate factory, declares that he would pick 5 children for a 1 day tour of his marvellous factory. In order to pick these 5 children, he will hide 5 golden tickets in the wrappers of Wonder chocolate bars. The mad search begins, and soon, four golden tickets are discovered by gluttonous Augustus Gloop, petulant Veruca Salt, impetuous Violet Beauregarde, and TV-addicted Mike Teavee. With just one day to go until the big day, Charlie finds a golden ticket. The next day, everyone comes to look at the five golden ticket finders. The excitement rises when Willy Wonka comes to the gate.
The tour starts with Augustus falling into the chocolate river, and getting sucked inside a tube. They ride a yacht down the river until they come to the inventing room, and they see various kinds of invented sweets, until they meet an invented sweet that draw the attention of Violet. It’s gum, which has a three-course-meal in it. However, the sweet goes wrong and Violet chews herself into a blueberry.
They go to the nut room, where the squirrels are working. They judge if a nut is bad or not by knocking on it, but when Veruca runs into the room, the squirrels knock on Veruca’s head, and they throw her in the garbage chute. After that, Mr. Wonka brings them to the television-chocolate room. Then Mike runs to the camera and the camera transports him into the television. To everyone's relief, Mike is okay. The only difference between him now and him before is that he’d shuck immensely after the trip into the television. Finally, there’s only Charlie left. Mr. Wonka declares that Charlie would be his heir. They go to Charlie’s house by Mr. Wonka’s glass elevator.
To conclude, Charlie teaches us many things. He teaches us that we should be happy with our lives. Also, Charlie’s meek but brave personality is really inspiring. Mr. Wonka teaches us many things too. His diminutive, but flamboyant style teaches us not to judge people by their looks. Although his diminutive, he’s personality is narcissistic, controlling, and eccentric, which shows that one's looks doesn't really have to interfer with one's personality.
[What I felt after reading this novel and my opinions about this novel]
After reading this novel, I viewed the world differently. I always judged people with their looks before looking into their personality. However, this novel teached me that no matter how a person looks, their personalities are a different matter. I felt ashamed to my family, classmates, and friends. I wanted to apologize to many people, especially to the ones who I belittled only because they didn't look favorable.
Although this novel teached me many unforgettable things, it also made me wonder about various kinds of things such as why should Charlie deserve to be the owner of the factory? Other kids might be more good at running the factory? Also, is Willy Wonka a good man like we all think?
I thought about this matters, and I finally got to reason myself. Violet Beauregarde will be more better as the boss of the chocolate factory of these reasons.
First, Violet might be better at running the factory because of her tenacity. She did chew gum for three mouths, intention of beating her friend's record. So she'll be better at running the factory because she'll try to make better sweets than other factories.
Second, Violet would be a more responsible boss to the Oompa-Loompas. Mr. Wonka tries his experiments on the Oompa-Loompas, and many of them got killed or suffered injuries. However, Violet won't do that to her employees because of her curiosity. For example, she experimented the new gum on herself, unfortunately chewing herself into a blueberry. This shows that she won't experiment the dangerous sweets on the Oompa-Loompas, but on herself.
I really think it's good to think about this things again and again. This increases one's imagination, making one more bright. So I recommand to think about this things. Pick a person who might be better as the boss of the chocolate factory and reason yourself. I just love it when I think about it. What about you?
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