Synopsis
Charlie Bucket is your average underprivileged boy who lives
with his parents and four grandparents.
As he is raised in this family, Charlie gets his most favorite thing in
the world once a year on his birthday: a bar of chocolate. The Bucket family lives in the very same town
where the world’s most famous chocolatier, Willy Wonka, operates a mysterious
factory. From Grandpa Joe, Charlie
learns that Willy Wonka closed the factory to stop spies from stealing his
secret candy-making skills, but one day the factory started to produce
chocolate and candy again without any workers entering or exiting the factory.
The adventure begins as Willy Wonka announces a world-wide
contest where he will give five lucky children a tour of his chocolate factory. The
lucky five are: Augustus, Veruca, Violet, Mike, and our protagonist Charlie. As the tour progresses, the rotten and
spoiled children meet their demise and are removed from the group one by
one. They leave the factory altered in
some way and Charlie is the last child remaining.
As the novel ends, Willy Wonka finally reveals why he had
opened his factory to five children while they fly in a glass elevator towards
Charlie’s home. Willy Wonka was getting old and he knew he could not run the
factory forever, so he needed an innocent and pure hearted child to become his
successor. In the end, Charlie was
chosen and he reunites with his family as they all fly off in the great glass
elevator into the sky.