Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 


 

 

Chapters 9 and 10


 

Settings: the house and the shop of sweets.

 

Characters: Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Mr Bucket, Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina and Mr Willy Wonka.

 

 

Summary: the day after, a few persons found the Golden Tickets missing; when Charlie came house from school he said hello to his grandfather. His grandfather gave Charlie a silver coin and he told him to run to the nearest bar to buy a Wonka’s nutty crunch surprise. Unfortunately they don’t find the golden ticket. During the next weeks the weather turned very very cold.

The situation became more and more difficult because they didn’t have anything to eat. The reason for this was that the toothpaste factory, suddenly went burst and closed down. One afternoon, walking back home, Charlie found a fifty-pence piece. Those pence meant to him “food”. He

whispered to himself, he would buy a bar of chocolate and he would take back the rest of the money to his mother.

 

Personal comments: the chapters 9th and 10th have a good link. In both chapters there is a wish to find a golden ticket in a chocolate bar and a family that become poor, these chapters make people think about the persons that don’t anything.

 

Relevant quotation: “All at once, they both saw the funny side of the whole

thing, and they burst into peals of laughter”.

I was impressed by this sentence because they aren’t angry when they don’t find the golden ticket, rather they burst laughter in front of the misfortune.

 

by Simone T.