Charlie's Journal
April 23
Yesterday I found a dollar on the road and bought two chocolate bars with it, one of them had a golden ticket in it! I had found one of the five golden tickets that allowed the owner and one guardian to go on a tour of the chocolate factory by Mr. Wonka himself. This morning Grandpa Joe and I met the others at the gate of the factory. Each one of us had our own unique characteristics, one such boy Augustus Gloop had a habit of eating everything that was in his sight. Another ticket holder was Veruca Salt, she was a spoiled brat whose dad made all his factory workers shell candy bars for days to find her a golden ticket. The last two besides me was Violet Beauregard, a compulsive gum chewer, and Mike Teave who cared only about what was on a TV screen. I felt as if I shouldn’t have been there I was the only one who had gotten lucky and was thankful for the opportunity, I was in awe the whole time I was there,
When I walked in the grand doors the aromas, sights, and tastes filled my senses. We saw new types of candy that was still under testing, and saw the assembly of each product. As we toured the rooms each of us showed our flaws and had to be escorted out of the building. Augustus fell into the chocolate river while he was trying to drink it, got sucked up in tube and carried to a different room. We lost Veruca in the room full of squirrels which Mr. Wonka used to crack nuts because they could get the nut out perfectly every time. She wanted a squirrel and decided she would go down there to get one, the squirrels decided that she was a “bad nut” and threw her in the trash. Violet grabbed an experimental piece of gum in one room which she chewed until she was a huge blueberry. She then had to be rolled out and juiced before she could go home. In the commercial room we lost Mike. He shrunk himself into the TV screen but when we got him out he did not grow back to normal size. They had to put him on the taffy stretcher to make him bigger than a finger. Grandpa Joe and I were the only ones who respected Mr. Wonka’s crazy actions and rambling, we were eventually the last ones standing....
I began to think that the whole trip was a death trap because everyone of the fellow contestants had gone home different from the way they had come. I looked up at Mr. Wonka worried and he said with joy “Congratulations you have won the factory,” My look changed from worried to amazement in less than a second, I did not understand what he was saying. He then took us in his glass elevator, exploded us out of the roof and into my old house. We picked up the rest of the family and he moved us into the factory, because as he explained I would take over the factory when he felt the time was right. I was so amazed that my selfishness yesterday had led to something better than bringing the dollar home for the family. I felt awful yesterday but I am so glad I bought that chocolate bar now!
- Charlie
April 23
Yesterday I found a dollar on the road and bought two chocolate bars with it, one of them had a golden ticket in it! I had found one of the five golden tickets that allowed the owner and one guardian to go on a tour of the chocolate factory by Mr. Wonka himself. This morning Grandpa Joe and I met the others at the gate of the factory. Each one of us had our own unique characteristics, one such boy Augustus Gloop had a habit of eating everything that was in his sight. Another ticket holder was Veruca Salt, she was a spoiled brat whose dad made all his factory workers shell candy bars for days to find her a golden ticket. The last two besides me was Violet Beauregard, a compulsive gum chewer, and Mike Teave who cared only about what was on a TV screen. I felt as if I shouldn’t have been there I was the only one who had gotten lucky and was thankful for the opportunity, I was in awe the whole time I was there,
When I walked in the grand doors the aromas, sights, and tastes filled my senses. We saw new types of candy that was still under testing, and saw the assembly of each product. As we toured the rooms each of us showed our flaws and had to be escorted out of the building. Augustus fell into the chocolate river while he was trying to drink it, got sucked up in tube and carried to a different room. We lost Veruca in the room full of squirrels which Mr. Wonka used to crack nuts because they could get the nut out perfectly every time. She wanted a squirrel and decided she would go down there to get one, the squirrels decided that she was a “bad nut” and threw her in the trash. Violet grabbed an experimental piece of gum in one room which she chewed until she was a huge blueberry. She then had to be rolled out and juiced before she could go home. In the commercial room we lost Mike. He shrunk himself into the TV screen but when we got him out he did not grow back to normal size. They had to put him on the taffy stretcher to make him bigger than a finger. Grandpa Joe and I were the only ones who respected Mr. Wonka’s crazy actions and rambling, we were eventually the last ones standing....
I began to think that the whole trip was a death trap because everyone of the fellow contestants had gone home different from the way they had come. I looked up at Mr. Wonka worried and he said with joy “Congratulations you have won the factory,” My look changed from worried to amazement in less than a second, I did not understand what he was saying. He then took us in his glass elevator, exploded us out of the roof and into my old house. We picked up the rest of the family and he moved us into the factory, because as he explained I would take over the factory when he felt the time was right. I was so amazed that my selfishness yesterday had led to something better than bringing the dollar home for the family. I felt awful yesterday but I am so glad I bought that chocolate bar now!
- Charlie