Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Chapter 1)

Happy International Book Day! I'm Jasmine and today I'm going to read the first chapter 00:00:01

of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. So chapter one, here comes Charlie. 00:00:06

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe 00:00:15

and Grandma Josephine. And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket. 00:00:24

Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina. This is Mr. and Mrs. Bucket. 00:00:33

Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie. This is Charlie. How do you do? 00:00:43

and how do you do and how do you do again he is pleased to meet you the whole of this family 00:00:52

the six grown-ups count them and little charlie bucket lived together in a small wooden house 00:01:00

on the edge of a great town here's the house the house wasn't nearly large enough for so many 00:01:08

people, and life was extremely uncomfortable for them all. There were only two rooms in the place 00:01:16

all together, and there was only one bed. The bed was given to the four old grandparents 00:01:23

because they were so old and tired. They were so tired, they never got out of it. 00:01:29

Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine on this side, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina on this side, 00:01:37

Mr. and Mrs. Bucket and little Charlie Bucket slept in the other room upon mattresses on the 00:01:44

floor. In the summertime this wasn't too bad but in the winter freezing cold droughts blew across 00:01:50

the floor all night long and it was awful. There wasn't any question of them being able to buy a 00:01:59

better house, or even one more bed to sleep in. They were far too poor for that. Mr. Bucket was 00:02:06

the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long 00:02:14

at a bench and screwed the little caps on the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes 00:02:22

had been filled. But a toothpaste cap screwer is never paid very much money, and poor Mr. Bucket, 00:02:29

however hard he worked and however fast he screwed on the caps, was never able to make enough to buy 00:02:37

one half of the things that so large a family needed. There wasn't even enough money to buy 00:02:45

proper food for them all. The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, 00:02:52

boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for dinner. 00:02:59

Sundays were a bit better. 00:03:04

They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, 00:03:07

everyone was allowed a second helping. 00:03:12

The buckets, of course, didn't starve, but every one of them, 00:03:15

the two old grandfathers, the two old grandmothers, Charlie's father, Charlie's mother, 00:03:20

and especially little Charlie himself, went about from morning till night with a horrible empty 00:03:24

feeling in their tummies. Charlie felt it worst of all, and although his father and mother often 00:03:31

went without their own share of lunch or supper so that they could give it to him, it still wasn't 00:03:40

nearly enough for a growing boy. He desperately wanted something more filling and satisfying than 00:03:46

cabbage and cabbage soup. The one thing he longed for more than anything else was chocolate. Walking 00:03:53

to school in the mornings, Charlie could see great slabs of chocolate piled up high in the shop 00:04:02

windows, and he would stop and stare and press his nose against the glass, his mouth watering like 00:04:08

mad. Many times a day, he would see other children taking bars of creamy chocolate out of their 00:04:15

out of their pockets and munching on them greedily. And that, of course, was pure torture. 00:04:22

Only once a year on his birthday did Charlie Bucket ever get to taste a bit of chocolate. 00:04:30

The whole family saved up their money for that special occasion. And when the great day arrived, 00:04:37

Charlie was always presented with one small chocolate bar to eat all by himself. And each 00:04:44

time he received it on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would place it carefully in a small 00:04:52

wooden box that he owned and treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold. And for the next few 00:04:58

days, he would allow himself only to look at it, but never touch it. Then at last, when he could 00:05:06

stand it no longer, he would peel back a tiny bit of the paper wrapping at one corner and expose a 00:05:14

tiny bit of chocolate and then he would take a tiny nibble, just enough to allow the lovely 00:05:22

sweet taste to spread out slowly over his tongue. The next day he would take another tiny nibble 00:05:30

and so on and so on. And in this way, Charlie would make his six penny bar of birthday chocolate 00:05:38

last him for more than a month. But I haven't yet told you about the one awful thing that 00:05:46

tortured little Charlie, the lover of chocolate more than anything else. This thing for him was 00:05:53

far, far worse than seeing slabs of chocolate in the shop windows or watching other children 00:06:01

munching bars of creamy chocolate right in front of him. It was the most terrible, 00:06:08

torturing thing you can imagine. And it was this. In the town itself, actually within sight 00:06:14

of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an enormous chocolate factory. Just imagine that. 00:06:21

and it wasn't simply an an ordinary enormous chocolate factory either it was the largest 00:06:29

most famous in the whole world it was wonka's factory owned by a man called willie wonka 00:06:36

the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been and what a tremendous 00:06:44

marvelous place it is. It had huge iron gates leading into it and a high wall surrounding it 00:06:52

and smoke belching from its chimneys and strange whizzing sounds coming from deep inside it. 00:07:00

And outside the walls, for half a mile around every direction, the air was scented with the 00:07:08

heavy, rich smell of melting chocolate. Twice on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket 00:07:15

had to walk right past the gates of the factory, and every time he went by, he would begin to walk 00:07:24

very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high up in the air and take long, deep sniffs 00:07:32

of a gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh, how he loved that smell. And oh, 00:07:42

how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like. 00:07:51

And that is the end of the first chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So if you 00:07:58

want to find out if Charlie goes into the chocolate factory and what happens, you'll 00:08:05

have to keep reading the rest of the book. Happy reading, everyone! 00:08:10

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