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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

March 16, 2023

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (disambiguation).

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.[1]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
First US edition
AuthorRoald Dahl
Illustrator
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNone
GenreChildren's fantasy novel
Publisher
Publication date
17 January 1964 (US version)
23 November 1964 (UK version)
OCLC9318922
Followed byCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator 

The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products.[2] At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory—inspiring Dahl's idea for the recipe-thieving spies (such as Wonka's rival Slugworth) depicted in the book.[3] Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.[4]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is frequently ranked among the most popular works in children's literature.[5][6][7] In 2012, Charlie Bucket brandishing a Golden Ticket appeared in a Royal Mail first class stamp in the UK.[8] The novel was first published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the UK by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Dahl in 1971 and published in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it.[9] The book has also been adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. A prequel film exploring Willy Wonka's origins will be released in 2023.

Plot

Eleven year old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents in a town which is home to a world-famous chocolate factory. One day, Charlie's bedridden Grandpa Joe tells him about Willy Wonka, the factory's eccentric owner, and all of his fantastical candies until rival chocolatiers sent in spies to steal his recipes, forcing Wonka to close. He reopened years later, but the gates remained locked and nobody knows who is providing the factory with its workforce.

The next day, the newspaper announces that Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets in Wonka Bars; the finders of these tickets will be invited to come and tour the factory. The first four tickets are found by gluttonous Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and television addict Mike Teavee. One day, Charlie buys a Wonka Bar with some money he found in the snow; the bar contains the fifth and final ticket. Upon hearing the news, Grandpa Joe regains his mobility and volunteers to accompany Charlie to the factory.

On the day of the tour, Wonka welcomes the five children and their parents inside the factory, a wonderland of confectionery creations that defy logic. They also meet the Oompa-Loompas who help him operate the factory. During the tour, the other four children give in to their impulses and are ejected from the tour in darkly comical ways: Augustus falls into the Chocolate River and is sucked up a pipe, Violet turns into a giant blueberry after chewing an experimental stick of three-course dinner gum, Veruca and her parents fall down a garbage chute after the former tries to capture one of the nut-testing squirrels, and Mike is shrunk down to the size of a chocolate bar after misusing the Television Chocolate device despite Wonka's warnings. The Oompa-Loompas sing about the children's misbehaviour each time disaster strikes.

With only Charlie remaining, Wonka congratulates him for "winning" the factory. Wonka explains that the whole tour was designed to help him find a good person to serve as an heir to his business, and Charlie was the only child whose inherent genuineness passed the test. They ride the Great Glass Elevator and watch the other four children leave the factory before flying to Charlie's house, where Wonka invites the entire Bucket clan to come and live with him in the factory.

Characters

Main article: List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

Publication

Race and editing

Dahl's widow said that Charlie was originally written as "a little black boy." Dahl's biographer said the change to a white character was driven by Dahl's agent, who thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers.[10][11]

In the first published edition, the Oompa-Loompas were described as African pygmies, and were drawn this way in the original printed edition.[10] After the announcement of a film adaptation sparked a statement from the NAACP, which expressed concern that the transportation of Oompa-Loompas to Wonka's factory resembled slavery, Dahl found himself sympathising with their concerns and published a revised edition.[10] In this edition, as well as the subsequent sequel, the Oompa-Loompas were drawn as being white and appearing similar to hippies, and the references to Africa were deleted.[10]

In 2023, publisher Puffin made changes to the original text of the book, such as making the Oompa-Loompas gender-neutral, and removing every occurrence of the word "fat."[12] The Telegraph published a list of many of these changes.[13]

Unused chapters

Various unused and draft material from Dahl's early versions of the novel have been found. In the initial, unpublished drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory nine golden tickets were distributed to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory[14] and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control.[14][15] Some of the names of the children cut from the final work include:[16]

  • Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Terence Roper (who overindulge in Warming Candies)[17][18]
  • Elvira Entwhistle (lost down a rubbish chute, renamed Veruca Salt)[14][17]
  • Violet Glockenberry (renamed Strabismus and finally Beauregarde)[14][17][19]
  • Miranda Grope and Augustus Pottle (lost up a chocolate pipe, combined into the character Augustus Gloop)[14][17]
  • Miranda Mary Piker (renamed from Miranda Grope, became the subject of Spotty Powder)[19][20]
  • Marvin Prune (a conceited boy involved in The Children's-Delight Room)[16][20]
  • Wilbur Rice and Tommy Troutbeck, the subjects of The Vanilla Fudge Room[14][17][21]
  • Herpes Trout (renamed Mike Teavee)[19]

"Spotty Powder"

"Spotty Powder" was first published as a short story in 1973.[20][22] In 1998 it was included in the children's horror anthology Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream edited by Peter Haining. The brief note before the story described the story as having been left out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory due to an already brimming number of misbehaving children characters in the tale. In 2005, The Times reprinted "Spotty Powder" as a "lost" chapter, saying that it had been found in Dahl's desk, written backwards in mirror writing (the same way that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his journals).[15][23] Spotty Powder looks and tastes like sugar, but causes bright red pox-like spots to appear on faces and necks five seconds after ingestion, so children who eat Spotty Powder do not have to go to school. The spots fade on their own a few hours later. After learning the purpose of Spotty Powder, the humourless, smug Miranda Piker and her equally humourless father (a schoolmaster) are enraged and disappear into the Spotty Powder room to sabotage the machine. Soon after entering, they are heard making what Mrs. Piker interprets as screams. Mr. Wonka assures her (after making a brief joke where he claims that headmasters are one of the occasional ingredients) that it is only laughter. Exactly what happens to them is not revealed in the extract.[14][15]

In an early draft, sometime after being renamed from Miranda Grope to Miranda Piker, but before "Spotty Powder" was written, she falls down the chocolate waterfall and ends up in the Peanut-Brittle Mixer. This results in the "rude and disobedient little kid" becoming "quite delicious."[20][24] This early draft poem was slightly rewritten as an Oompa-Loompa song in the lost chapter, which now puts her in the "Spotty-Powder mixer" and instead of being "crunchy and ... good [peanut brittle]" she is now "useful [for truancy] and ... good."[15]

"The Vanilla Fudge Room"

In 2014, The Guardian revealed that Dahl had removed another chapter ("The Vanilla Fudge Room") from an early draft of the book. The Guardian reported the now-eliminated passage was "deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago."[14] In what was originally chapter five in that version of the book, Charlie goes to the factory with his mother (instead of his grandfather, as originally published). At this point, the chocolate factory tour is down to eight kids,[21][25] including Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice. After the entire group climbs to the top of the titular fudge mountain, eating vanilla fudge along the way, Troutbeck and Rice decide to take a ride on the wagons carrying away chunks of fudge. The wagons take them directly to the Pounding And Cutting Room, where the fudge is reformed and sliced into small squares for retail sale. Wonka states the machine is equipped with "a large wire strainer ... which is used specially for catching children before they fall into the machine" adding that "It always catches them. At least it always has up to now."[21]

The chapter dates back to an early draft with ten golden tickets, including one each for Miranda Grope and Augustus Pottle, who fell into the chocolate river prior to the events of "Fudge Mountain".[14][26] Augustus Pottle was routed to the Chocolate Fudge Room, not the Vanilla Fudge Room explored in this chapter,[21][25] and Miranda Grope ended up in the Fruit and Nuts Room.

"The Warming Candy Room"

Also in 2014, Vanity Fair published a plot summary of "The Warming Candy Room", wherein three boys eat too many "warming candies" and end up "bursting with heat."[27]

The Warming Candy Room is dominated by a boiler, which heats a scarlet liquid. The liquid is dispensed one drop at a time, where it cools and forms a hard shell, storing the heat and "by a magic process ... the hot heat changes into an amazing thing called 'cold heat.'" After eating a single warming candy, one could stand naked in the snow comfortably. This is met with predictable disbelief from Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Terence Roper, who proceed to eat at least 100 warming candies each, resulting in profuse perspiration. The three boys and their families discontinue the tour after they are taken to cool off "in the large refrigerator for a few hours."[18]

"The Children's-Delight Room"

Dahl originally planned for a child called Marvin Prune to be included. He submitted the excised chapter regarding Prune to The Horn Book Review in the early 1970s.[28] Rather than publish the chapter, Horn Book responded with a critical essay by novelist Eleanor Cameron, who called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “one of the most tasteless books ever written for children”.[29]

Reception

 
Costumes of Willy Wonka (from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and the Mad Hatter (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) in London. A 2015 UK poll ranked them the top two children's books.[7]

In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books that every child should read.[30] A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton wrote: "I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults."[31][32]

A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for fourth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California.[33] A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it was one of the most common books that UK adults had read as children, after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Wind in the Willows.[34]

Groups who have praised the book include:

In the 2012 survey published by SLJ, a monthly with primarily US audience, Charlie was the second of four books by Dahl among their Top 100 Chapter Books, one more than any other writer.[39] Time magazine in the US included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time; it was one of three Dahl novels on the list, more than any other author.[40] In 2016 the novel topped the list of Amazon's best-selling children's books by Dahl in Print and on Kindle.[41]

Although the book has always been popular and considered a children's classic by many literary critics, a number of prominent individuals have spoken unfavourably of the novel over the years.[42] Children's novelist and literary historian John Rowe Townsend has described the book as "fantasy of an almost literally nauseating kind" and accused it of "astonishing insensitivity" regarding the original portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas as African black pygmies, although Dahl did revise this in later editions.[43] Another novelist, Eleanor Cameron, compared the book to the sweets that form its subject matter, commenting that it is "delectable and soothing while we are undergoing the brief sensory pleasure it affords but leaves us poorly nourished with our taste dulled for better fare."[29]Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in support of this assessment in a letter to The Horn Book Review, saying that her own daughter would turn "quite nasty" upon finishing the book.[44] Dahl responded to Cameron's criticisms by noting that the classics that she had cited would not be well received by contemporary children.[45]

Adaptations

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has frequently been adapted for other media, including games, radio, the screen,[46] and stage, most often as plays or musicals for children – often titled Willy Wonka or Willy Wonka, Jr. and almost always featuring musical numbers by all the main characters (Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, Veruca, etc.); many of the songs are revised versions from the 1971 film.

Film

The book was first made into a feature film as a musical, titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), directed by Mel Stuart, produced by David L. Wolper, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket, with music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Dahl was credited for writing the screenplay, but David Seltzer was brought in by Stuart and Wolper to make changes against Dahl's wishes, leaving his original adaptation, in one critic's opinion "scarcely detectable".[47] Amongst other things, Dahl was unhappy with the foregrounding of Wonka over Charlie, and disliked the musical score. Because of this, Dahl disowned the film.[47] The film had an estimated budget of $2.9 million but grossed only $4 million and was considered a box-office disappointment, though it received positive reviews from critics. Exponential home video and DVD sales, as well as repeated television airings, resulted in the film's subsequently becoming a cult classic.[48] Concurrently with the 1971 film, the Quaker Oats Company introduced a line of candies whose marketing uses the book's characters and imagery.[49]

 
Golden Ticket from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on display at a convention in Spain

Warner Bros. and the Dahl estate reached an agreement in 1998 to produce another film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the Dahl family receiving total artistic control. The project languished in development hell until Tim Burton signed on to direct in 2003. The film, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, starred Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. It was released in 2005 to positive reviews and massive box office returns, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year.[50]

In October 2016, Variety reported that Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the Willy Wonka character from the Roald Dahl Estate and would be planning a new film centered around the eccentric character with David Heyman producing.[51] In February 2018, Paul King entered final negotiations to direct the film.[52] In May 2021, it was reported that the film would be a musical titled Wonka, with Timothée Chalamet playing a younger version of the titular character in an origin story.[53] King was confirmed as director and co-writer along with comedian Simon Farnaby; the film is set for release in December 2023.[54]

Other adaptations

 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical playing at Drury Lane in London in 2013
  • A musical based on the novel, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, premiered at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 2013 and officially opened on 25 June.[58] The show was directed by Sam Mendes, with new songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and stars Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka.[58] The production broke records for weekly ticket sales.[59] Hodge was also the voice of a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory audiobook, as part of a package of Roald Dahl CDs read by celebrities.
  • In July 2017, an animated film Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was released in which the titular cat and mouse were put into the story of the 1971 film.
  • On 27 November 2018, Netflix was revealed to be developing an "animated series event" based on Roald Dahl's books, which will include a television series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the novel's sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.[60][61] On 5 March 2020, it was reported that Taika Waititi will write, direct, and executive-produce both the series and a spin-off animated series focused on the Oompa Loompas.[62]
  • In 2021, Melbourne based comedians Big Big Big released a six part podcast called The Candyman that satirically presents events at the chocolate factory in a true crime genre.[63]

Audiobook

In 2002, Monty Python member Eric Idle narrated the audiobook version of the American Edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.[64] Douglas Hodge, who played Willy Wonka in the London production of the stage musical,[65] narrated the UK Edition of the audiobook for Penguin Audio in 2013, and the title was later released on Amazon Audible.[66]

Editions

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has undergone numerous editions and been illustrated by numerous artists.[67]

Books

  • 1964, OCLC 9318922 (hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., original, first US edition, illustrated by Joseph Schindelman)
  • 1967, ISBN 9783125737600 (hardcover, George Allen & Unwin, original, first UK edition, illustrated by Faith Jaques)
  • 1973, ISBN 0-394-81011-2 (hardcover, revised Oompa Loompa edition)
  • 1976, ISBN 0-87129-220-3 (paperback)
  • 1980, ISBN 0-553-15097-9 (paperback, illustrated by Joseph Schindelman)
  • 1984, ISBN 0-1403-0599-8 (UK paperback, illustrated by Faith Jaques)
  • 1985, ISBN 0-14-031824-0 (paperback, illustrated by Michael Foreman)
  • 1987, ISBN 1-85089-902-9 (hardcover)
  • 1988, ISBN 0-606-04032-3 (prebound)
  • 1992, ISBN 0-89966-904-2 (library binding, reprint)
  • 1995 (illustrated by Quentin Blake)
  • 1998, ISBN 0-14-130115-5 (paperback)
  • 2001, ISBN 0-375-81526-0 (hardcover)
  • 2001, ISBN 0-14-131130-4 (illustrated by Quentin Blake)
  • 2002, ISBN 0-060-51065-X (audio CD read by Eric Idle)
  • 2003, ISBN 0-375-91526-5 (library binding)
  • 2004, ISBN 0-14-240108-0 (paperback)
  • ISBN 0-8488-2241-2 (hardcover)
  • 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-310633-3 (paperback), Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, cover by Ivan Brunetti
  • 2014, (hardcover, Penguin UK/Modern Classics, 50th anniversary edition)
  • 2014, (hardcover, Penguin UK/Puffin celebratory golden edition, illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake)[68]
  • 2014, (double-cover paperback)[68]

50th anniversary cover controversy

The cover photo of the 50th anniversary edition, published by Penguin Modern Classics for sale in the UK and aimed at the adult market, received widespread commentary and criticism.[69] The cover is a photo of a heavily made up young girl seated on her mother's knee and wearing a doll-like expression, taken by the photographers Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello as part of a photo shoot for a 2008 fashion article in a French magazine, for a fashion article titled "Mommie Dearest."[68][70] In addition to writing that "the image seemingly has little to do with the beloved children's classic",[71] reviewers and commentators in social media (such as posters on the publisher's Facebook page) have said the art evokes Lolita, Valley of the Dolls, and JonBenet Ramsey; looks like a scene from Toddlers & Tiaras; and is "misleading," "creepy," "sexualised," "grotesque," "misjudged on every level," "distasteful and disrespectful to a gifted author and his work," "pretentious," "trashy", "outright inappropriate," "terrifying," "really obnoxious," and "weird & kind of paedophilic."[68][72][73]

The publisher explained its objective in a blog post accompanying the announcement about the jacket art: "This new image . . . looks at the children at the center of the story, and highlights the way Roald Dahl’s writing manages to embrace both the light and the dark aspects of life."[74] Additionally, Penguin Press's Helen Conford told the Bookseller: "We wanted something that spoke about the other qualities in the book. It's a children's story that also steps outside children's and people aren't used to seeing Dahl in that way." She continued: "[There is] a lot of ill feeling about it, I think because it's such a treasured book and a book which isn't really a 'crossover book'" As she acknowledged: "People want it to remain as a children's book."

The New Yorker describes what it calls this "strangely but tellingly misbegotten" cover design thusly: "The image is a photograph, taken from a French fashion shoot, of a glassy-eyed, heavily made-up little girl. Behind her sits, a mother figure, stiff and coiffed, casting an ominous shadow. The girl, with her long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—" The article continues: "And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life." Moreover, writes Talbot, "The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience."[69]

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External links

  • Official Roald Dahl website

Deleted chapters

  • "Fudge Mountain": Dahl, Roald (30 August 2014). . The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 August 2014.
  • "Fudge Mountain": "The Vanilla Fudge Room". Roald Dahl Archive. 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  • "Spotty Powder": Jones, Miracle (2 February 2009). "'Spotty Powder,' the Lost Chapter from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (blog)". The Fiction Circus. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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March 16, 2023
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This article is about the novel For other uses see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory disambiguation Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children s novel by British author Roald Dahl The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka 1 Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryFirst US editionAuthorRoald DahlIllustratorJoseph Schindelman first and revised US editions Faith Jaques first UK edition Michael Foreman 1985 edition Quentin Blake 1995 edition CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishSeriesNoneGenreChildren s fantasy novelPublisherGeorge Allen amp Unwin original Puffin Books 1995 2006 Scholastic current Publication date17 January 1964 US version 23 November 1964 UK version OCLC9318922Followed byCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl s experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products 2 At that time around the 1920s Cadbury and Rowntree s were England s two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies posing as employees into the other s factory inspiring Dahl s idea for the recipe thieving spies such as Wonka s rival Slugworth depicted in the book 3 Because of this both companies became highly protective of their chocolate making processes It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate often gigantic machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story 4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is frequently ranked among the most popular works in children s literature 5 6 7 In 2012 Charlie Bucket brandishing a Golden Ticket appeared in a Royal Mail first class stamp in the UK 8 The novel was first published in the US by Alfred A Knopf Inc in 1964 and in the UK by George Allen amp Unwin 11 months later The book s sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was written by Dahl in 1971 and published in 1972 Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it 9 The book has also been adapted into two major motion pictures Willy Wonka amp the Chocolate Factory in 1971 and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005 A prequel film exploring Willy Wonka s origins will be released in 2023 Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Publication 3 1 Race and editing 3 2 Unused chapters 3 2 1 Spotty Powder 3 2 2 The Vanilla Fudge Room 3 2 3 The Warming Candy Room 3 2 4 The Children s Delight Room 4 Reception 5 Adaptations 5 1 Film 5 2 Other adaptations 6 Audiobook 7 Editions 7 1 Books 7 2 50th anniversary cover controversy 8 References 9 External links 9 1 Deleted chaptersPlotEleven year old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents in a town which is home to a world famous chocolate factory One day Charlie s bedridden Grandpa Joe tells him about Willy Wonka the factory s eccentric owner and all of his fantastical candies until rival chocolatiers sent in spies to steal his recipes forcing Wonka to close He reopened years later but the gates remained locked and nobody knows who is providing the factory with its workforce The next day the newspaper announces that Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets in Wonka Bars the finders of these tickets will be invited to come and tour the factory The first four tickets are found by gluttonous Augustus Gloop spoiled Veruca Salt gum chewing Violet Beauregarde and television addict Mike Teavee One day Charlie buys a Wonka Bar with some money he found in the snow the bar contains the fifth and final ticket Upon hearing the news Grandpa Joe regains his mobility and volunteers to accompany Charlie to the factory On the day of the tour Wonka welcomes the five children and their parents inside the factory a wonderland of confectionery creations that defy logic They also meet the Oompa Loompas who help him operate the factory During the tour the other four children give in to their impulses and are ejected from the tour in darkly comical ways Augustus falls into the Chocolate River and is sucked up a pipe Violet turns into a giant blueberry after chewing an experimental stick of three course dinner gum Veruca and her parents fall down a garbage chute after the former tries to capture one of the nut testing squirrels and Mike is shrunk down to the size of a chocolate bar after misusing the Television Chocolate device despite Wonka s warnings The Oompa Loompas sing about the children s misbehaviour each time disaster strikes With only Charlie remaining Wonka congratulates him for winning the factory Wonka explains that the whole tour was designed to help him find a good person to serve as an heir to his business and Charlie was the only child whose inherent genuineness passed the test They ride the Great Glass Elevator and watch the other four children leave the factory before flying to Charlie s house where Wonka invites the entire Bucket clan to come and live with him in the factory CharactersMain article List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory charactersPublicationRace and editing Dahl s widow said that Charlie was originally written as a little black boy Dahl s biographer said the change to a white character was driven by Dahl s agent who thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers 10 11 In the first published edition the Oompa Loompas were described as African pygmies and were drawn this way in the original printed edition 10 After the announcement of a film adaptation sparked a statement from the NAACP which expressed concern that the transportation of Oompa Loompas to Wonka s factory resembled slavery Dahl found himself sympathising with their concerns and published a revised edition 10 In this edition as well as the subsequent sequel the Oompa Loompas were drawn as being white and appearing similar to hippies and the references to Africa were deleted 10 In 2023 publisher Puffin made changes to the original text of the book such as making the Oompa Loompas gender neutral and removing every occurrence of the word fat 12 The Telegraph published a list of many of these changes 13 Unused chapters Various unused and draft material from Dahl s early versions of the novel have been found In the initial unpublished drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory nine golden tickets were distributed to tour Willy Wonka s secret chocolate factory 14 and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self control 14 15 Some of the names of the children cut from the final work include 16 Clarence Crump Bertie Upside and Terence Roper who overindulge in Warming Candies 17 18 Elvira Entwhistle lost down a rubbish chute renamed Veruca Salt 14 17 Violet Glockenberry renamed Strabismus and finally Beauregarde 14 17 19 Miranda Grope and Augustus Pottle lost up a chocolate pipe combined into the character Augustus Gloop 14 17 Miranda Mary Piker renamed from Miranda Grope became the subject of Spotty Powder 19 20 Marvin Prune a conceited boy involved in The Children s Delight Room 16 20 Wilbur Rice and Tommy Troutbeck the subjects of The Vanilla Fudge Room 14 17 21 Herpes Trout renamed Mike Teavee 19 Spotty Powder Spotty Powder was first published as a short story in 1973 20 22 In 1998 it was included in the children s horror anthology Scary Stories That Will Make You Scream edited by Peter Haining The brief note before the story described the story as having been left out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory due to an already brimming number of misbehaving children characters in the tale In 2005 The Times reprinted Spotty Powder as a lost chapter saying that it had been found in Dahl s desk written backwards in mirror writing the same way that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his journals 15 23 Spotty Powder looks and tastes like sugar but causes bright red pox like spots to appear on faces and necks five seconds after ingestion so children who eat Spotty Powder do not have to go to school The spots fade on their own a few hours later After learning the purpose of Spotty Powder the humourless smug Miranda Piker and her equally humourless father a schoolmaster are enraged and disappear into the Spotty Powder room to sabotage the machine Soon after entering they are heard making what Mrs Piker interprets as screams Mr Wonka assures her after making a brief joke where he claims that headmasters are one of the occasional ingredients that it is only laughter Exactly what happens to them is not revealed in the extract 14 15 In an early draft sometime after being renamed from Miranda Grope to Miranda Piker but before Spotty Powder was written she falls down the chocolate waterfall and ends up in the Peanut Brittle Mixer This results in the rude and disobedient little kid becoming quite delicious 20 24 This early draft poem was slightly rewritten as an Oompa Loompa song in the lost chapter which now puts her in the Spotty Powder mixer and instead of being crunchy and good peanut brittle she is now useful for truancy and good 15 The Vanilla Fudge Room In 2014 The Guardian revealed that Dahl had removed another chapter The Vanilla Fudge Room from an early draft of the book The Guardian reported the now eliminated passage was deemed too wild subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago 14 In what was originally chapter five in that version of the book Charlie goes to the factory with his mother instead of his grandfather as originally published At this point the chocolate factory tour is down to eight kids 21 25 including Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice After the entire group climbs to the top of the titular fudge mountain eating vanilla fudge along the way Troutbeck and Rice decide to take a ride on the wagons carrying away chunks of fudge The wagons take them directly to the Pounding And Cutting Room where the fudge is reformed and sliced into small squares for retail sale Wonka states the machine is equipped with a large wire strainer which is used specially for catching children before they fall into the machine adding that It always catches them At least it always has up to now 21 The chapter dates back to an early draft with ten golden tickets including one each for Miranda Grope and Augustus Pottle who fell into the chocolate river prior to the events of Fudge Mountain 14 26 Augustus Pottle was routed to the Chocolate Fudge Room not the Vanilla Fudge Room explored in this chapter 21 25 and Miranda Grope ended up in the Fruit and Nuts Room The Warming Candy Room Also in 2014 Vanity Fair published a plot summary of The Warming Candy Room wherein three boys eat too many warming candies and end up bursting with heat 27 The Warming Candy Room is dominated by a boiler which heats a scarlet liquid The liquid is dispensed one drop at a time where it cools and forms a hard shell storing the heat and by a magic process the hot heat changes into an amazing thing called cold heat After eating a single warming candy one could stand naked in the snow comfortably This is met with predictable disbelief from Clarence Crump Bertie Upside and Terence Roper who proceed to eat at least 100 warming candies each resulting in profuse perspiration The three boys and their families discontinue the tour after they are taken to cool off in the large refrigerator for a few hours 18 The Children s Delight Room Dahl originally planned for a child called Marvin Prune to be included He submitted the excised chapter regarding Prune to The Horn Book Review in the early 1970s 28 Rather than publish the chapter Horn Book responded with a critical essay by novelist Eleanor Cameron who called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory one of the most tasteless books ever written for children 29 Reception Costumes of Willy Wonka from Roald Dahl s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland in London A 2015 UK poll ranked them the top two children s books 7 In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature author J K Rowling author of the Harry Potter books named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books that every child should read 30 A fan of the book since childhood film director Tim Burton wrote I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults 31 32 A 2004 study found that it was a common read aloud book for fourth graders in schools in San Diego County California 33 A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it was one of the most common books that UK adults had read as children after Alice s Adventures in Wonderland The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Wind in the Willows 34 Groups who have praised the book include New England Round Table of Children s Librarians Award US 1972 Surrey School Award UK 1973 35 Read Aloud BILBY Award Australia 1992 36 Millennium Children s Book Award UK 2000 Blue Peter Book Award UK 2000 The Big Read ranked number 35 in a BBC survey of the British public to identify the Nation s Best loved Novel UK 2003 37 National Education Association listed as one of Teachers Top 100 Books for Children based on a poll US 2007 38 School Library Journal ranked 61 among all time children s novels US 2012 39 In the 2012 survey published by SLJ a monthly with primarily US audience Charlie was the second of four books by Dahl among their Top 100 Chapter Books one more than any other writer 39 Time magazine in the US included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time it was one of three Dahl novels on the list more than any other author 40 In 2016 the novel topped the list of Amazon s best selling children s books by Dahl in Print and on Kindle 41 Although the book has always been popular and considered a children s classic by many literary critics a number of prominent individuals have spoken unfavourably of the novel over the years 42 Children s novelist and literary historian John Rowe Townsend has described the book as fantasy of an almost literally nauseating kind and accused it of astonishing insensitivity regarding the original portrayal of the Oompa Loompas as African black pygmies although Dahl did revise this in later editions 43 Another novelist Eleanor Cameron compared the book to the sweets that form its subject matter commenting that it is delectable and soothing while we are undergoing the brief sensory pleasure it affords but leaves us poorly nourished with our taste dulled for better fare 29 Ursula K Le Guin wrote in support of this assessment in a letter to The Horn Book Review saying that her own daughter would turn quite nasty upon finishing the book 44 Dahl responded to Cameron s criticisms by noting that the classics that she had cited would not be well received by contemporary children 45 AdaptationsCharlie and the Chocolate Factory has frequently been adapted for other media including games radio the screen 46 and stage most often as plays or musicals for children often titled Willy Wonka or Willy Wonka Jr and almost always featuring musical numbers by all the main characters Wonka Charlie Grandpa Joe Violet Veruca etc many of the songs are revised versions from the 1971 film Film The book was first made into a feature film as a musical titled Willy Wonka amp the Chocolate Factory 1971 directed by Mel Stuart produced by David L Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket with music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley Dahl was credited for writing the screenplay but David Seltzer was brought in by Stuart and Wolper to make changes against Dahl s wishes leaving his original adaptation in one critic s opinion scarcely detectable 47 Amongst other things Dahl was unhappy with the foregrounding of Wonka over Charlie and disliked the musical score Because of this Dahl disowned the film 47 The film had an estimated budget of 2 9 million but grossed only 4 million and was considered a box office disappointment though it received positive reviews from critics Exponential home video and DVD sales as well as repeated television airings resulted in the film s subsequently becoming a cult classic 48 Concurrently with the 1971 film the Quaker Oats Company introduced a line of candies whose marketing uses the book s characters and imagery 49 Golden Ticket from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on display at a convention in Spain Warner Bros and the Dahl estate reached an agreement in 1998 to produce another film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the Dahl family receiving total artistic control The project languished in development hell until Tim Burton signed on to direct in 2003 The film titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starred Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka It was released in 2005 to positive reviews and massive box office returns becoming the eighth highest grossing film of the year 50 In October 2016 Variety reported that Warner Bros has acquired the rights to the Willy Wonka character from the Roald Dahl Estate and would be planning a new film centered around the eccentric character with David Heyman producing 51 In February 2018 Paul King entered final negotiations to direct the film 52 In May 2021 it was reported that the film would be a musical titled Wonka with Timothee Chalamet playing a younger version of the titular character in an origin story 53 King was confirmed as director and co writer along with comedian Simon Farnaby the film is set for release in December 2023 54 Other adaptations In 1983 the BBC produced an adaptation for Radio 4 Titled Charlie it aired in seven episodes between 6 February and 20 March 55 In 1985 the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video game was released for the ZX Spectrum by developer Soft Options and publisher Hill MacGibbon A video game Charlie and the Chocolate Factory based on Burton s adaptation was released on 11 July 2005 On 1 April 2006 the British theme park Alton Towers opened a family attraction themed around the story The ride featured a boat section where guests travel around the chocolate factory in bright pink boats on a chocolate river In the final stage of the ride guests enter one of two glass elevators where they join Willy Wonka as they travel around the factory eventually shooting up and out through the glass roof 56 Running for nine years the ride was closed for good at the end of the 2015 season The Estate of Roald Dahl sanctioned an operatic adaptation called The Golden Ticket It was written by American composer Peter Ash and British librettist Donald Sturrock The Golden Ticket has completely original music and was commissioned by American Lyric Theater Lawrence Edelson producing artistic director and Felicity Dahl The opera received its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on 13 June 2010 in a co production with American Lyric Theater and Wexford Festival Opera 57 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical playing at Drury Lane in London in 2013 A musical based on the novel titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered at the West End s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in May 2013 and officially opened on 25 June 58 The show was directed by Sam Mendes with new songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and stars Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka 58 The production broke records for weekly ticket sales 59 Hodge was also the voice of a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory audiobook as part of a package of Roald Dahl CDs read by celebrities In July 2017 an animated film Tom and Jerry Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was released in which the titular cat and mouse were put into the story of the 1971 film On 27 November 2018 Netflix was revealed to be developing an animated series event based on Roald Dahl s books which will include a television series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the novel s sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 60 61 On 5 March 2020 it was reported that Taika Waititi will write direct and executive produce both the series and a spin off animated series focused on the Oompa Loompas 62 In 2021 Melbourne based comedians Big Big Big released a six part podcast called The Candyman that satirically presents events at the chocolate factory in a true crime genre 63 AudiobookIn 2002 Monty Python member Eric Idle narrated the audiobook version of the American Edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 64 Douglas Hodge who played Willy Wonka in the London production of the stage musical 65 narrated the UK Edition of the audiobook for Penguin Audio in 2013 and the title was later released on Amazon Audible 66 EditionsCharlie and the Chocolate Factory has undergone numerous editions and been illustrated by numerous artists 67 Books 1964 OCLC 9318922 hardcover Alfred A Knopf Inc original first US edition illustrated by Joseph Schindelman 1967 ISBN 9783125737600 hardcover George Allen amp Unwin original first UK edition illustrated by Faith Jaques 1973 ISBN 0 394 81011 2 hardcover revised Oompa Loompa edition 1976 ISBN 0 87129 220 3 paperback 1980 ISBN 0 553 15097 9 paperback illustrated by Joseph Schindelman 1984 ISBN 0 1403 0599 8 UK paperback illustrated by Faith Jaques 1985 ISBN 0 14 031824 0 paperback illustrated by Michael Foreman 1987 ISBN 1 85089 902 9 hardcover 1988 ISBN 0 606 04032 3 prebound 1992 ISBN 0 89966 904 2 library binding reprint 1995 illustrated by Quentin Blake 1998 ISBN 0 14 130115 5 paperback 2001 ISBN 0 375 81526 0 hardcover 2001 ISBN 0 14 131130 4 illustrated by Quentin Blake 2002 ISBN 0 060 51065 X audio CD read by Eric Idle 2003 ISBN 0 375 91526 5 library binding 2004 ISBN 0 14 240108 0 paperback ISBN 0 8488 2241 2 hardcover 2011 ISBN 978 0 14 310633 3 paperback Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition cover by Ivan Brunetti 2014 hardcover Penguin UK Modern Classics 50th anniversary edition 2014 hardcover Penguin UK Puffin celebratory golden edition illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake 68 2014 double cover paperback 68 50th anniversary cover controversy The cover photo of the 50th anniversary edition published by Penguin Modern Classics for sale in the UK and aimed at the adult market received widespread commentary and criticism 69 The cover is a photo of a heavily made up young girl seated on her mother s knee and wearing a doll like expression taken by the photographers Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello as part of a photo shoot for a 2008 fashion article in a French magazine for a fashion article titled Mommie Dearest 68 70 In addition to writing that the image seemingly has little to do with the beloved children s classic 71 reviewers and commentators in social media such as posters on the publisher s Facebook page have said the art evokes Lolita Valley of the Dolls and JonBenet Ramsey looks like a scene from Toddlers amp Tiaras and is misleading creepy sexualised grotesque misjudged on every level distasteful and disrespectful to a gifted author and his work pretentious trashy outright inappropriate terrifying really obnoxious and weird amp kind of paedophilic 68 72 73 The publisher explained its objective in a blog post accompanying the announcement about the jacket art This new image looks at the children at the center of the story and highlights the way Roald Dahl s writing manages to embrace both the light and the dark aspects of life 74 Additionally Penguin Press s Helen Conford told the Bookseller We wanted something that spoke about the other qualities in the book It s a children s story that also steps outside children s and people aren t used to seeing Dahl in that way She continued There is a lot of ill feeling about it I think because it s such a treasured book and a book which isn t really a crossover book As she acknowledged People want it to remain as a children s book The New Yorker describes what it calls this strangely but tellingly misbegotten cover design thusly The image is a photograph taken from a French fashion shoot of a glassy eyed heavily made up little girl Behind her sits a mother figure stiff and coiffed casting an ominous shadow The girl with her long perfectly waved platinum blond hair and her pink feather boa looks like a pretty and inert doll The article continues And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde she doesn t those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life Moreover writes Talbot The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination instead it seems to imply a deviant adult audience 69 References Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Britannica Retrieved 5 August 2021 The five children are greeted outside the factory by the eccentric visionary Willy Wonka Repton School helped inspire Dahl to write Charlie BBC 12 November 2015 Archived from the original on 14 October 2018 Retrieved 21 June 2018 Chocolate Wars The 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