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Chapters 15 and 16
Settings: Chocolate room (in the factory) and Loompaland.
Characters: Willy Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe, Violet
and her parents, Veruca and her parents, Augustus and his
parents, Mike and his parents and Oompa-Loopas.
Summary: the 15th chapter contains a detailed description
of the Chocolate Room. This is an important room because it is
the heart of the whole factory. In this room there was a lovely
valley full up of green meadows and at the bottom of it a great
brown river flowed; what’s more there was a wonderful waterfall
along the river. Graceful trees and bushes were growing along
the riverbanks. Important thing: they are all eatable and all
made of something different and delicious!!! While the five
children and nine grown-ups are eating, some tiny men not higher
than a leg come on the scene!! They were Oompa-Loompas!!
In the 16th chapter, the author lets the readers know about
Ooompa-Loompas. Willy Wonka describes the situation of these
tiny men, when they were in the jungle of Loompaland that was
very terrible because of many dangerous beasts. The only food
that Oompa-Loompas wanted more than any other was the cacao
beans. But they couldn’t get it (because of these dangerous
animals). So Willy Wonka took them in his factory, where he
promised them a lot of cacao beans. So he shipped there the
whole Oompa-Loompa tribe. They love dancing and music, they like
jokes and they wear the same kind of clothes they wore in the
jungle!!
Relevant quotations: “The waterfall is most important!”
Mr Wonka went on. “It mixes the chocolate! It churns it up! It
pounds it and beats it! It makes it light and frothy! No other
factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall! But it’s
the only way to do it properly!”
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“'Imported direct from Loompaland,' said Mr Wonka proudly.’
There’s no such place,' said Mrs Salt. ‘Excuse me, dear lady,
but . . .''Mr Wonka,' cried Mrs Salt. 'I'm a teacher of
geography ‘Then you'll know all about it,' said Mr Wonka. 'And
oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles
infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world —
hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible
wickedwhangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas
for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. When
I went out there, I found the little Oompa-Loompas living in
tree houses. They had to live in tree houses to escape from the
whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and thesnozzwangers. And they
were living on green caterpillars, and the caterpillars tasted
revolting, and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of their
days climbing through the treetops looking for other things to
mash up with the caterpillars to make them taste better — red
beetles, for instance, and eucalyptus leaves, and the bark of
the bong-bong tree, all of them beastly, but not quite so
beastly as the caterpillars. Poor little Oompa-Loompas! The one
food that they longed for more than any other was the cacao bean.
But they couldn't get it. An Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he found
three or four cacao beans a year”.
I think that this two quotations are very important to get the
topic of chapter 15 and 16 . I have chosen these two quotations
because they are very funny and particular!
Personal comments: in these two chapters there are a lot
of details. I like them very much because the characters are
very funny and bizarre . The settings are described very well
and during the reading , I imagine the waterfall that is mixing
the chocolate, and it makes me hungry!!
by
Federica
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