Wonka's factory
Charlie Bucket lived with his parents, his maternal
grandparents, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, and his
paternal grandparents, Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.
They all lived together in a small house which wasn't nearly large
enough for so many people. There were only two rooms and one
bed. All the grandparents slept in one bed and Charlie and his
parents slept on the floor in the other room.
They were very poor. They were always cold and always hungry.
The only food they had was bread and margarine for breakfast,
boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch and cabbage soup for
supper.
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All Charlie really wanted was CHOCOLATE. But he only ever got a
bar once a year on his birthday. And what was worse for Charlie,
was he always passed the gates of an enormous chocolate factory
on his way home from school. One evening Charlie asked his
grandparents about the factory proprietor, Mr. Willy Wonka.
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'My dear boy,' said Grandpa Joe, 'Mr. Willy Wonka is the most
amazing, the most fantastic, the most extraordinary chocolate
maker in the world! He has invented more than two hundred new
kinds of chocolate bars. Ice creams, chewing-gum and the tastiest
sweets you can imagine. It makes my mouth water to think about
it.
Mine, too, said Charlie. Please go on. Ill tell you something
else that is true. Nobody ever comes out and nobody ever goes in
the factory.
But there must be people working there.
'Not people Charlie, not ordinary people anyway.
Then who?' cried Charlie.
'Charlie dear!'Mrs. Bucket called from the door.It's time for bed .
But mother , I must hear ...'
Tomorrow, my darling. Grandpa Joe can tell you the rest of the
story tomorrow.
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When the reporter arrived at the Teavees house, young mike said angrily:
Quiet! Cant you see Im watching a film? Its about gangsters and I like
gangsters best.
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Do all children behave like this nowadays? Asked, Grandma Georgiana. Some
do, of course. But not all, said Mr. Bucket. The next day, when Charlie got
home, he found Grandpa Joe waiting for him.
Look Charlie. It is a secret. you and I are going to have one more try at
finding the last Ticket, he said and turned his purse upside down. out felt a
single ten cent piece.
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Are you sure you want to spend your money on that? asked Charlie.
Of course Im sure! Take the money, run to the nearest store, buy Wonka
acandy bar, bring it back here and well open it together.
In five minutes, Charlie was back. The old mans fingers were trembling as he
started to tear off the wrapper slowly.
Very well, then. Here goes! They both stared at what was in front of them.
A bar of candy. Nothing more. All at once they burst into laughter.
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Chapter 4 Miracles
During the next weeks, the snow came than a freezing wind. Nobody in
the Bucket family thought now to anything except of trying to keep warm
and trying to get enough to eat.
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Slowly but surely, everybody in the house began to starve. Charlie refused to
take any of his parents of grandparents food. And every day, Charlie grew
thinner and thinner and his face became pale.
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'He's a fine little fellow,' said Grandpa George. 'He deserves better than this.'
Then, one afternoon, walking back home, his eye was caught suddenly by a
piece of greenish paper that looked vaguely familiar to him. He bent down. It
was a dollar bill!
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Quickly he looked around him. No! nobody was searching for any money.
Then was it his, this dollar? A WHOLE dollar! It meant FOOD.
Automatically, Charlie began moving towards the nearest shop. He would
buy one bar of candy, he whispered quickly to himself and the rest of the
money he would give to his mother.
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'One Wonka's Delight,' he said. When the shopkeeper and handed it to him,
he grabbed it, tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then
anotherand another. He felt extremly happy.
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'I think I'll have another one, please. The same kind as before,' said
Charlie.
Charlie picked up the second one, tore off the wrapper and suddenly His
heart stood still.
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'It's a Golden Ticket!' screamed the shopkeeper. You've found the last Golden
Ticket! Hey, would you believe it! Come and look at this, everybody! Good
luck to you, sonny.'
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Charlie pushed his way through the crowd and didnt stop till he got home.
Mother, mother, IVE FOUND IT! THE FIFTH GOLDEN TICKET!
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'But that's tomorrow! cried Mrs. Bucket. Who is going to go with Charlie to
the factory?'
'I will! I'll look after him! shouted Grandpa Joe. Charlie wash your face,
comb your hair, brush your teeth, cut your nails, polish your shoes! Get
ready for the biggest day of your life, my boy!
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Chapter 5
The big day arrived. Outside the gates of Wonka's factory, enormous crowds
of people had gathered. All the lucky winners, except Charlie, had both their
mothers and fathers with them.
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'There he is!' somebody shouted, and the crowd became suddenly silent
'That's him!' Mr Willy Wonka was an extraordinary little man. He wore a
black top hat, a tail coat, green trousers and grey gloves. And in one hand he
carried a fine gold-topped walking stick. How clever he looked! How full of
life!
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Welcome to the factory my little friends! Augustus! How good to see you and
your parents!My dear Veruca! How do you do? How are you, Mr Salt? And
Mrs Salt?
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Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee, came forward to have their tickets
examined. And last of all, Charlie! cried Mr Wonka. Well, well, well. Youre
the one who found your ticket only yesterday. Your grandfather? Delighted to
meet you, sir! Will you please follow me? But do stay together! Lets hurry!
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It's lovely and warm inside the factory and there was a wonderful smell of
roasting coffee and burnt sugar and melting chocolate and mint and apple
blossom and caramel and lemon peel.
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This is the main corridor. Follow me. Then, Mr Wonka turned left. Then he
turned left. Then, left again. Then right. Then left. Then right. Then right.
Then left. Then he suddenly, stopped in front of a metal door.
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'The waterfall is most important! It mixes the chocolate! And the trees and
the bushes are all edible. The grass you are standing on, is made of a new
kind of, minty sugar! Try a blade!
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The children and the parents were too amazed to speak. They simply stood
and stared. Suddenly, Veruca Salt started to scream Look over there!'It's a
little person! 'She's right, Grandpa!' cried Charlie. 'It is a little man! Oh, look
theres more than one!
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"Look," I said not in English, of course, but in Oompa-Loompish, to their
leader, if you and all your people will come to my country and live in my
factory, you can have all the cacao beans you want! "It's a deal!" the leader
cried. Lets go!"
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'So I shipped them all Oompa-Loompas tribe over here. They all speak
English now. They love dancing, music and laughing. 'Daddy! I want an
Oompa-Loompa right away! 'Augustus!' shouted Mrs Gloop at her son, who
was on his knees on the riverbank, pushing hot, melted chocolate into his
mouth.
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'Oh, no! Augustus, please! You are dirtying my chocolate! Be careful! Its
dangerous!
Suddenly there was a shriek, and then a splash and in one second Augustus
Gloop disappeared under the brown river. Mr Wonka was laughing.
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'Save him!He can't swim. Hell drown. How dare you to laugh. You monster!
cried Mrs. Gloop. Augustus was going up a pipe made of glass. It was pipe
leading to the room where they made the most delicious kind of strawberryflavoured chocolate-coated fudge.
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Everlasting Gobstoppers!' cried Mr. Wonka proudly. 'They're completely
new! I am inventing them for poor children. You can suck one of these large
green marbles it will never get any smaller. it tastes terrific and it changes
changes colour once a week.
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Over here I am inventing a completely new line in toffees!' The Hair Toffee.
'You eat just one tiny bit of that, and in half an hour your hair will start
growing a moustache and a beard! The mixture is not quite right yet. I tried
it on an Oompa-Loompa yesterday and a hugebeard started growing faster
than we could cut it!
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Now I will show you something that I am terrifically proud of, said Mr.
Wonka,'. He led the party over to a gigantic machine with hundreds of thin
glass tubes. Mr Wonka, pressed three different buttons and a second later
there
was
steam
of
all
over.
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And in every single tube stuff of a different colour, came into a tub and got
mixed in a terrible noise. they could finaly see something small, thin and
grey.
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Its the most amazing and fabulous and sensational gum in the world! Its
chewing-! gum meal! This gum will be the end of all kitchens and all cooking!
No knives and forks! No plates! When you start chewing you will actually
taste tomato soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie.
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I want the gum at once, said Violet and before anybody could stop her, she
started chewing it. 'Stop! It isn't exactly ready for eating! Its the dessert
that always go wrong, said Mrs. Wonka.
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'Good heavens, girl!' shrieked Mrs. Beauregarde. Youre turning blue and
youre blowing up like a balloon! Save her! She looks like a gigantic
blueberry.
Take Miss Beauregarde into the Juicing Room and squeeze the juice out of
her
immediately, said Mr. Wonka to an Oompa-Loom. . We'll get her repaired my
dear Mrs. Beauregarde, dont worry!
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He
pointed
with
his
finger.
Everybody
looked.
TELEVISION
CHOCOLATE, it
said on the tiny label beside the
button