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Chapter 23
Settings: Inside Mr Wonka’s Factory
Characters: Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Veruca Salt, Mr Wonka
Summary: This chapter tells of the group of people who are visiting the factory. Verruca leaves them and sees a long table and on the table there are rows and rows of small white square-shaped sweets. There is a surprise.......the new revolutionary product.....in fact the sweets seem round but
they are square!
Relevant quotation: “The sweets looked very much like square sugar lumps-except that each of them had a funny little pink face painted on one side.”
The sentence conveys everything……In the sense that Charlie is a poor boy, therefore he doesn’t
have any money and he can't buy a bar of chocolate.
Chapter 24
Settings: Nut Room inside Mr Wonka’s Factory
Characters: Mike Tevee, Grandpa Joe, Charlie, Oompa –Loompas,Veruca Salt,
Mr Wonka
Summary: Mr Wonka rushes on down the corridor towards the The Nut Room.
Mr Wonka takes a peek throught the glass panel of this room. He doesn’t go into the new room, because if you go in the Nut Room, you ‘ll disturb the squirrels.
After that, everyone crowds around the door. Veruca Salt cries:
”Squirrels!”. In fac a lot of squirrels are sitting on high stools, breaking the nut shells with their
teeth.
Relevant
quotation: “From far away down the corridor came the beating of drums. Then the singing began.
'Veruca Salt!' sang the Oompa-Loompas.
'Veruca Salt, the little brute,
Has just gone down the rubbish chute
(And as we very rightly thought
That in a case like this we ought
To see the thing completely through,
We've polished off her parents, too).
Down goes Veruca! Down the drain!
And here, perhaps, we should explain
That she will meet, as she descends,
A rather different set of friends
To those that she has left behind —
These won't be nearly so refined.
A fish head, for example, cut
This morning from a halibut.
"Hello! Good morning! How d'you do?
How nice to meet you! How are you?"
And then a little further down
A mass of others gather round:
A bacon rind, some rancid lard,
A loaf of bread gone stale and hard,
A steak that nobody could chew,
An oyster from an oyster stew,
Some liverwurst so old and grey
One swelled it from a mile away,
A rotten nut, a reeky pear,
A thing the cat left on the stair,
And lots of other things as well,
Each with a rather horrid smell.
These are Veruca's new-found friends
That she will meet as she descends,
And this is the price she has to pay
For going so very far astray.
But now, my dears, we think you might
Be wondering — is it really right
That every single bit of blame
And all the scolding and the shame
Should fall upon Veruca Salt?
Is she the only one at fault?
For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so,
A girl can't spoil herself, you know.
Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed?
Who pandered to her every need?
Who turned her into such a brat?
Who are the culprits? Who did that?
Alas! You needn't look so far
To find out who these sinners are.
They are (and this is very sad)
Her loving parents, MUM and DAD.
And that is why we're glad they fell
Into the rubbish chute as well.’… “
The Oompa-Loompa’s song starts in this chapter reminding everybody what being spoilt means.
by
Alessandro R. and Matteo
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