FF Thursday November 17

Tania Lopez FSEM 100 B7

We started the in class writing by discussing the system of the factory in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka once had employees work for him until he found out that spies started to work for him then take the recipes for themselves. At a sense we noticed that even though he was trying to protect his inventions, he fired a lot of people to do so. The Oompa Loompa's are kidnapped then brought to his factory to work not for money but for cocoa beans. They aren't treated well because Willy Wonka puts them down and orders them around rather than treating them as equals and asking them to do things. We saw in the PowerPoint that in Dahl's first edition, the Oompa Loompa's we're imported from Africa. It wasn't until there were some complaints that Dahl redesigned the Oompa Loompa's. We discussed the vices of the four children, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee. All the kids had a different level of greed. Although all of them were considered bad next to Charlie, their punishments might have been harsh. The only person that had the most reasonable punishment was Veruca Salt, whom was thrown into the garbage disposal. The others, if the punishment was really to happen, would have been really hurt. Wonka might have also seen their characteristics in the paper when they were all being announced and planned the punishments for them from what he learned about them. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” takes place in London, England, so the story doesn’t really seem like a fantasy story. But we see the secondary world as Wonka’s Factory and his mind. When they’re in the factory, it’s as if they no longer live in a real world but in a world created and controlled by Wonka. We also see that everything he talks about from the Oompa Loompa’s to some of his inventions, that some of it seems made up. We ended our discussion by pointing out the differences between this book and the other books we’ve read so far.