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-Plot: Adventures of Charlie and other four children in the Wonka's Chocolate Factory

-Was wrote and published in 1964.

Roald Dahl: What did he inspire? The story was originally inspired in his chief memories when Roald had experiences of chocolate companies




Childhood in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory we may see reflected some of the most commonly roles found in today's society. These characters are accompanied not only of physical characteristics; they are also stereotyped attitudinal characteristics.

Some of those features are the following:

• Feeling of ownership and leadership.

• Eagerness of adventure and social prestige.

• They are competitive.

• Acceptance of the dominant social control

• Children get involved in a stage of moral development. Moral development is related to the values ​​that parents instill into them.

• They begin to be able to develop their own ideas of good and evil.

• Development through family relationships: Family relationships play a crucial role in the development of children. The parent-child relationship is one of the greatest individual influences over a child's self esteem and sense of self-control. 


The five main roles that are apparent in the film and in which some of the characteristics already mentioned are the following.



Augustus Gloop

Augustus Gloop is the first child to find the gold ticket. He is a boy obsessed with food. Moreover, he is very fat as his diet consists of meat and chocolate


Veruca Salt

Veruca Salt, is the second child to find the gold ticket. She is impulsive and bad-mannered. She is never content with the things she has. She is all the time asking his father to buy or get her new 
things


Violeta Beauregarde 

Violeta Beauregarde is the third one of the children to find a golden ticket. She is very competitive and she is obsessed with breaking records


Mike Teavee 

Mike Teavee, is the fourth child to find the golden ticket. This child has a great obsession with television


Charlie Bucket 

Charlie is the main character of the book. Charlie has all the virtues that should be a good child. He is friendly, caring and loving. He lives in humble house with his family. He loves to eat chocolate however he hardly get just one chocolate a year. It is a dream for him to get to know the Wonka Chocolate Factory



CONCLUSION

We may say that establishing an opposition between Charlie as a passive, obedient, observant and quiet heroe, and the other kids (Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop and Violet Beaure ¬ garde) behaving disobedient, moody and obsessed with food, TV, chewing gum or gettng whatever they want - excesses that should have been punished by their parents and it is in the chocolate factory where they were punished by being offered a moral to be learnt.