Max's review of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

[Max]

I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl over Christmas break. Charlie Bucket is a little boy. His favorite thing in the world is chocolate, but his family is poor and can’t afford it. Once a year on his birthday, he gets one bar of chocolate and savors it as long as he can. He lives with his parents and both sets of grandparents in a tiny house in a town with a giant chocolate factory in the middle. He has to walk past it and smell the chocolate every day on his way to school which is real torture. One day his dad reads that five golden tickets are hidden in five chocolate wrappers which are spread around the world. Whoever gets a ticket can come to the factory and get a tour. When the tour is over, each child will get a lifetime supply of chocolate. Charlie really wishes he could have more than one chocolate bar so he could have a better chance of getting a golden ticket. His birthday is coming soon, his mom and dad say, so there is still a little bit of hope.
During the story, Charlie and his Grandpa Joe get to meet the very energetic Willy Wonka, owner of the factory, and the children who found the golden tickets; Augustus Gloop, Verruca Salt, Violet Beauregard, and Mike Teavee, and their parents. In the factory, they meet the mysterious workers, the Oompa Loompas, and discover that it is not an ordinary chocolate factory. Some extraordinary things happen during the tour, and at the end, Charlie gets a surprise even bigger than a lifetime supply of chocolate.
One of the major themes of this book is that selfishness and greed will likely lead to bad things in the end. I recommend this book to anyone who likes funny stories and appreciates magic. I really loved it.