What would you do in a Chocolate Factory?

Which person does not like Chocolate! Most people are crazy for it, so when young Charlie Bucket wins one of the five most coveted Golden Tickets, it’s a ray of lightning galvanising everyone into action.

Charlie Bucket is one of the five children who together with their parents are allowed a tour of the prestigious factory, Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, that grandfather Joe had talked so much about.

Oh the wonders that await them at the Factory, the amazing array of Snozzberries, Slugworth and Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight, add to it, an everlasting gobstopper, fizzy lemonade swimming pools, lickable wallpaper and the river of chocolate, where Augustus Gloop addicted to chocolate, bends down for a drink, falls face down and is sucked by an enormous pipe.

Violet Beauregarde who just cannot stay without chewing gum, tempted by a strip of gum which promises a full three course meal, sadly the dessert had not until then been well researched,  Violet Beauregarde finds herself bloated into an enormous blueberry.

Veruca Salt, so spoiled, so bold insists on taking one of the squirrels who is engaged in sorting out nuts, as a pet, only to be pushed inside a garbage chute by the squirrels en masse.

And Mike Teavee completely addicted to television, demands he be “sent by television” and sadly gets shrunk in the process.

Charlie and his grandfather, never expect anything, they just want to enjoy the wonderful opportunity, savour each lovely moment for the rest of their lives.

Of course, Dahl has a moralistic streak in him and after every mishap; the Oompa Loompas sing a rhyme, they explain the reason for that particular mishap. A sort of take on some of the cardinal vices, we have gluttony and the way Augustus Gloop, the greedy person meets his end. We have the very spoiled Veruca Salt being taught a lesson, the disobedient Violet Beauregard suffering. But it is TV watching that really gets Dahl terribly angry as can be heard from the Oompa Loompa song

.. But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK - HE ONLY SEES!
"All right!" you'll cry. "All right!" you'll say,
"But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!"
We'll answer this by asking you,
"What used the darling ones to do?
"How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?"
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and
READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books! 

In the end we realise that although they are not aware of it, the children are competing for the biggest prize of all, the heir to the Chocolate factory, as expected Charlie wins the prize.

Now here is where the movie and the book versions differ. Charlie, seems very selfish in the book, zooms off after forcing his family to join him as the owner of the factory. The movie however has a better ending; Charlie refuses to live in Willie Wonkas factory because his family is not wanted by Willie Wonka, instead lives in his old house, things get a little better for Charlie’s family. But Willie Wonka keeps coming to Charlie’s house to partake in the simple lives of the Bucket family, enjoying life more, surrounded by a large family.