All four grandparents are completely bedridden but are forced to share the same bed. He lives in a very small house with his parents and four grandparents. It has been adapted for the cinema twice, as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971 and as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005.ĭahl wrote a sequel to the novel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, which was published in 1972.Ĭharlie Bucket is a boy from an extremely poor family.
Cadbury, who would have to approve the new products.Ĭharlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for other media numerous times. This caused Dahl to fantasize about the people whose job it was to create new kinds of chocolate bars and about Mr. The British chocolate manufacturer's Cadbury carried out market research by sending out free samples of their, as yet, unreleased products to the boarding school which Dahl atteneded and, in return, asked for the boys' opinions about the chocolates. The inspiration for the novel can be traced back to Roald Dahl's childhood. Willy Wonka then reveals his real purpose in sending out the Golden Tickets. Due to their greed and general bad behavior, the other four children meet with accidents which force them to drop out of the factory tour.
Through amazing good luck, Charlie Bucket finds the last Golden Ticket. Consequently, the announcement that five Golden Tickets, each of which will allow one child and up to two accompanying adults to visit the factory, have been hidden in Wonka chocolate bars that have sent around the world, causes considerable excitement. No visitors have been inside Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for years. Due to his family's extreme poverty, he rarely gets to eat chocolate but he is fascinated by the chocolate factory in his town, owned by the eccentric and mysterious Willy Wonka. The novel's title character and protagonist is a very poor boy named Charlie Bucket. It was first published in the United States in 1964 and first published in the United Kingdom in 1967.
Front cover of an American first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from 1964.Ĭharlie and the Chocolate Factory is an award-winning children's fantasy novel of twenty-eight chapters by the British author Roald Dahl.
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