Mr Wonka personally escorts him round his chocolate factory - then appoints him as his successor. From touring Mr Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory to bursting through its roof in the Great Glass Elevator, that little flash of gold is only the beginning of his adventures. When he finds a Golden Ticket in that Wonka chocolate bar, Charlie's luck starts to change. It is, after all, the bar that changes Charlie's life. You could even say this is his lucky bar. His very favourite is the Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight bar. Because more than anything else, Charlie loves chocolate - Wonka chocolate especially. Which makes the fact that there is a great big Chocolate Factory in his very own town all the more difficult for poor Charlie. How d'you do? And how d'you do? And how d'you do again? He is pleased to meet you." - Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryĬharlie Bucket appears in two of Roald Dahl's stories: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - which has been adapted into two films, an opera and a stage musical - and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.Ĭharlie lives with his mother, his father and his four grandparents in a little wooden house near a great town. Well, he does the first time we meet him, anyway.Ĭharlie and his family don't have much money. In the film, however, the ending was amended so that Luke turns back into a boy. The film also differed from the book in that the ending was changed - in Roald Dahl's original story, The Grand High Witch's spell was never reversed, leaving The Boy to live out his days as a mouse, telling his Grandmother: "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you." In the 1990 film adaptation, "Luke" was played by Jasen Fisher. His reaction when he discovers The Grand High Witch's terrible plan against the children of England is to do all he can to stop them - even after he gets some first-hand experience of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker. Like many of Roald Dahl's young heroes and heroines, he is resilient, resourceful and, above all, brave. His mice have names though - William and Mary, which is itself the title of a short story in the Kiss Kisscollection, first published in 1960. Like his Grandmother, the young male narrator of Roald Dahl's 1983 story The Witches doesn't have a name, although in the later film adaptation he was called Luke. "Things happened to me that will probably make you scream when you read about them. On film, Augustus has been portrayed by actors Michael Bollner (1971) and Philip Wiegratz (2005). Luckily, the Oompa-Loompas are on hand to divert Augustus from the fudge room, but it's close. Once inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory he's so keen to get started that he won't listen to what Mr Wonka says and very nearly meets a very sticky end in that chocolate river. One thing for certain, though, is that Augustus is a greedy boy. All of these places are in Germany, so most of us think of Augustus as being German. In the 2005 film, he's from Düsseldorf, and in the 2013 West End musical production he is from Bavaria. In the original story Roald Dahl doesn't tell us where Augustus is from, but in the 1971 film he hails from the fictional town of Dusselheim. His mother, Mrs Gloop, tells us he eats so much chocolate it would have been impossible for him not to find one of the Golden Tickets hidden in Willy Wonka's chocolate bars, and so win a trip to the Chocolate Factory. "The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump." - Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryĪugustus Gloop ("The great big greedy nincompoop!" as the Oompa-Loompas sing later) appears in Roald Dahl's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which has since been adapted into two films, an opera and a West End musical.Īugustus is a young boy who enjoys eating.
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