Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is…
3.9Overall Score
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Reader's Review This well-known and highly popular book by Roald Dahl will amuse children and adults. Five children who find a magic golden ticket in a chocolate bar will get the one in a ...
Reader’s Review
This well-known and highly popular book by Roald Dahl will amuse children and adults. Five children who find a magic golden ticket in a chocolate bar will get the one in a lifetime opportunity to tour the secretive Mr. Wonka’s chocolate factory. Spoiled and greedy children face sticky ends, as Mr. Wonka looks for the one child who is honest and worthy of a great prize. Note that younger children may be alarmed by the misfortune that befalls a number of the kids, and the language and violence may concern some parents.
To look out for
- Islamic Values: There are numerous descriptions of chocolate, candy and sweets throughout the book, and plenty of greedy adults and children. Charlie’s grandparents are sometimes portrayed in a manner that makes them look silly and unreasonable. Many of the spoiled children have parents who are even more materialistic, spoiled, and greedy than they are. Oompa Loompas become drunk on butterscotch and soda.
- Language: Grandparents call Mr. Wonka dotty and other children and adults revolting, repulsive, beastly and brats . Parents use a string of insults to describe Mr. Wonka include nutty, screwy, loony and more. One child is described as being enormously fat repeatedly. Children are rude to their parents and interrupt adults. Oompa-loompas call a child a nincompoop, a pig, a bum, a brute, and make rhymes insulting the greedy or spoiled ones. Mr. Wonka talks about rude burping. Father tells son to shut up.
- Violence: Gangster steals money to buy chocolate, factory workers are made to work long hours to find the ticket, one of the children loves violent tv shows, and 4 of the children must face unfortunate consequences for their actions (including blowing up like a fruit, getting stuck in a chocolate pipe, falling into a garbage shoot, and turning into a miniature figure.) Mr. Wonka jokes about the children ending up as part of the sweets, or being burned in the furnace or about losing limbs. He tells a woman to go and boil your head. The Oompa-loompas sing about a child being ground and pounded with knives and boiled into fudge, and a woman who bites her tongue into two.
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