善良的查理和魔幻的巧克力工厂

巧克力世界里的匪夷所思，哪有不爱糖果的孩子！这部小说不愧“奇想”二字。

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the book we are speaking about this week. It is a novel by Roald Dahl about a poor boy named Charlie Bucket.

Roald Dahl是英国著名儿童书作家。他出了很多广受好评的儿童书，比如BFG，2016年被斯皮尔伯格搬上银幕，是我们都特别喜欢的电影；比如Matilda，被改编成电影以及Broadway Musical。。。Lindsay选书介绍的时候私心里可能更偏爱BFG。不过，这个巧克力工厂的故事因为太经典了，我们还是挑了它。Let's get back to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie and his family are very poor, living in a small house at the edge of their city. They have one bed and one mattress （床垫）, with four elderly grandparents to take care of. But they all deeply love each other.

这个孩子出身贫穷但有丰富爱的家庭。

Mr. Wonka, a genius（天才） with chocolate and the owner of the chocolate factory, issued（发出） five Golden Tickets, Tickets for the whole world to try to get, hidden in the wrappers（包装纸） of his ordinary chocolate bars, and they are invitations （邀请） for the people who get them to enter his secretly operated（运作） factory. His own agenda（时间表，计划） is to find a successor（继承人） of his factory. And Charlie luckily got the ticket along with other four spoiled （宠坏的）kids.

查理只有钱买一块巧克力但能有幸得到金门票，故事里是自带主角光辉的。

看看人物背景，品质善良令人同情的查理与宠坏了又贪婪的四个其它孩子。我们不难想象故事的结局和最终走向就是善有善报恶有恶报。

Well, it is true. The other four kids end up like these one by one: They get sucked up a pipe, pushed down a garbage chute, blown up into a gigantic（巨大的）blueberry after chewing gum that hasn’t been fully developed, and the last is shrunk by trying to send himself into a television. As a result, they leave the factory before the journey ends. At the end of the day, Charlie is the only one left to accompany Mr. Wonka through the factory. Mr. Wonka reveal at that point he was looking for an heir （接班人）, a heir to take control of the factory. He said that he needs a child’s fresh ideas. Charlie, of course, is that winner.

尽管情节总结起来似乎并无新意，但是通篇故事里的描写想象丰富，叙述生动。尤其，对于儿童来讲，这巧克力工厂的种种细节匪夷所思，太好玩了，哪里有不爱糖果的孩子呢。

I love this book because of all the candies inside! Roald Dahl is a very descriptive（描写性） writer and makes you feel how it must be like to go through this factory. The factory even has a large beautiful boat made out of a pink hard candy that has been hollowed out. This candy boat sails on a chocolate river that is fed by a chocolate waterfall（瀑布）. They also visit a really cool candy inventory lab （发明实验室）. And Oompa-Loompas, Mr. wonka’s workers, also add a very imaginative（想像性） sense to the story. It feels so magical! I would love to have this experience.

是啊，如果你看过Johnny Depp主演的这部电影，那些眼花缭乱的场景都是源自作者的想象。孩子们的想象力最为丰富，也难怪这部1964年的小说时至今日仍然备受喜爱。想象力与描述力是我认为这部书最值得推崇的地方。

Charlie will go from a poor boy with barely anything to eat to a boy living in the most wonderful place ever exists.  I love how Charlie goes from rags-to-riches （由穷变富）, and his lifestyle improves from this wondrous place.

Lindsay的这种想法就是大众的想法，我们都喜欢看见穷人变富有生活瞬间改变的魔幻故事。坚守自己的善良，有希望有期待, dreams do come true。我们下次见。