


The children who find the Golden Tickets will have the opportunity to tour his factory. Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets in five Wonka candy bars. Bucket comes home with a newspaper bearing exciting news: Mr. Wonka and his factory are totally mysterious. Nobody knows who works there, as the gates are perpetually locked Mr. After a closure of several years, the factory suddenly came to life again and resumed production.

Wonka suddenly shut the factory down when spies kept stealing his candy recipes. His factory used to employ local workers, but Mr. Wonka is a genius inventor-he once made a palace entirely out of chocolate for an Indian prince. One night, Grandpa Joe tells Charlie about Mr. Wonka’s chocolate factory each way.Įvery night, Charlie’s grandparents tell him stories. What Charlie wants most in the world is chocolate-so his walk to and from school every day is torturous, as he has to pass Mr. They live in a tiny, drafty two-room house and subsist on cabbage and potatoes. The Bucket family is extremely poor, as Mr. Bucket, and both sets of grandparents ( Grandma Georgina, Grandpa George, Grandma Josephine, and Grandpa Joe), who spend all their time lying in the one bed the family can afford. Charlie Bucket, the novel’s protagonist, is a little boy who lives with his parents, Mr.
