🍬 Structuralist Criticism - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This story written in 1964 by the British author Roald Dahl, let us a touching learning that we are going to mention through the analysis. Firstly, talking about the factory and Willy Wonka. Everything starts, when Willy Wonka was a child, he could not eat chocolates and candies, his father was a dentist, for that reason the candies were taken away from him. That caused of the Willy Wonka’s frustration. So, he decided to go and realize his dream building the Greatest Chocolate factory he had dreamed. The factory became very famous and Willy became very rich. The work there was perfect, and well done, and little people called Oompa-Loompas run it. 

Willy Wonka has suddenly decided to open the doors of his factory, to five children and their parents after 10 years of keeping it sealed because his rivals were stealing his recipes. In order to choose who will enter the factory and receive a lifetime supply of chocolate, Mr. Wonka hides five golden tickets in the wrappers of his Wonka chocolate bars. Finally, Charlie, who at the beginning of the story was a poor child who lived with his family; four grandparents and his two parents in a small house. His biggest dream was to win one of the five Golden Tickets that Willy Wonk’s Factory offered, inside the Willy Wonka Chocolate bar, but the unique opportunity, that supposedly Charlie had to have one chocolate and get the Golden Ticket, was in his birthday. Sadly, for Charlie and his family, his chocolate bar did not contain the Golden Ticket. Then, he found some money in the road and could buy another chocolate bar, and there was how Charlie got the last Golden Ticket from the five ones. Charlie had Chosen by Willy Wonka, because he was the unique who does not caused troubles in the factory. 

However, there is something more, Wonka wanted that Charlie went to live alone to the factory, but Charlie preferred to stay with his family in the poverty than have the entire factory and much money without them. In this part of the story, Wonka has a flashback, he felt so bad about it and he remembered his father, and there was when Wonka started to seek his father and visited him.

In addition, in the story we can find the use of the diction as an amazing and exited expression for something to comes, for example; “oh, how he loved that smell!”, the chocolate factory sounds like an spectacular place. The only time those exclamation points disappear are when mention the poverty and the hunger of Charlie and his family. However, at the final, the author change that sadness for a happy conclusion.

Comments.

1. Do you think that Willy Wonka was fair with every child?

2. If you were Willy Wonka. What would you do in the face of the children behavior?


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