The 24th Annual Book Report Competition for secondary school students
Class: 3A
Student: Ho Tsz Chun, Marco
Title of the book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin Books
A chocolate factory was a very simple factory with machines and workers
there. Mr. Willy Wonka’s factory was different from the others because he
used unusual ways to make chocolate and candies. He used unusual workers
too, the Oompalompas. In addition, he made unusual candies such as an ice
cream that would never melt, even in the hottest sun and chewing gums that
never lost taste. It was really amazing!
My favourite character is Mr Willy Wonka because he was a genius of making
candies. He used a chocolate waterfall to mix the ingredients into the best
way to make chocolate bars. He made tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry
pie into a gum! People did not have to cook any more, just had a gum! He got
many other useful invents to make his impossible ideas become true! The
businessmen around the world only wanted to earn money through selling
food. They should learn from Mr. Willy Wonka. It was because he opened his
factory for the children in which showed he was glad to share his work. That
was why I loved him.
Although Mr. Willy Wonka wished to share his work with the others, some
people might just want to get the secret prize. They didn’t care about what Mr.
Willy Wonka did, except the prize. Violet always showed that she was the
winner and always thought about winning the secret prize. Her parents taught
her badly because they taught her to win the secret prize by all means. Some
people might buy a lot of chocolate to get the golden ticket, like Veruca.
Veruca’s parents spoiled her. They bought everything that she wanted, even if
it cost a lot. She got two dogs, four cats, six bunny rabbits, to parakeets, three
canaries, a green parrot, a turtle and a hamster, but she still wanted a trained
squirrel from the factory. She was never contented. Her parents bought over
thousands of chocolate to find the golden ticket. It was a waste of chocolate. I
hated Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt most. They were the most terrible
kid I’ve ever seen in books. Luckily, they learned a good lesson in the factory.
In the fairy tales, bad guys usually won’t have good endings. However, this
book is different. In the story, Violet became a blueberry and Veruca fell into
an incinerator eventually.
Augustus Gloop was very greedy, especially in chocolate. His life was only
eating and eating. Although he was in a dangerous situation, he was still
eating. That was why he fell into the chocolate river in the factory. Cupidity
caused bad results. Mike Teevee always believed he was right and he didn’t
listen to the others’ opinions. He was stubborn. It was hard to bear with him.
Most of the children were stubborn like him. They always thought what they
did was correct. It might cause them lose, just like Mike Teevee. He became
tiny at the end. Although he was brave, he didn’t think of the result. Therefore,
he failed to win the prize.
Charlie Bucket was the best kid of all. Although Charlie’s family was very poor
and they couldn’t afford too many bars of chocolate, he still got a golden ticket
by luck. In the whole adventure, he just kept silent and listening to the others.
He didn’t do badly like the other children. This was the reason why he was the
only one that could stay until the end. At last, he won the factory because he
was the best of all. He didn’t think of getting a prize, even a bar of chocolate.
He just enjoyed the visit and nothing else. Children should be pure like him.
They shouldn’t be as bad as the other four characters.
My favourite thing in the factory is the glass lift. It could travel to any room by
going up to down or left to right, even out of the factory! It was amazing. If
there was a real lift like it, it would be the greatest invention of the century! I’m
sure that everyone would like to have one.
Greedy thought of people is unlimited. People want anything that is valuable
and useful so they did anything to look for them. Like the four children’s
parents, they did many things to take a golden ticket for their children because
they all wanted to get the prize. However, Charlie was different from them
because his family was poor. He didn’t get much toys so he didn’t get much
cupidity when compared to the others. He went to the factory for a visit, not for
the prize. We should learn from Charlie because he knew what was contect.
Money could buy many things, but it couldn’t buy true happiness. Only the
children like Charlie could have the true happiness. The four children were
born in a rich family but they couldn’t learn what true happiness was. They
didn’t win anything and left the factory sadly as a result. They just learnt a
precious lesson there. I hope everyone who reads this book would know the
meaning of the story.