Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Genre: Children's literature and stories

Year: 1964

Author: Roald Dahl

About the book:

(Original title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory),

written in 1964, is the third children's book by the British
author Roald Dahl.

This book has been adapted to film twice: in the films

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), written
by Roald Dahl, directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene
Wilder, and Charlie and the chocolate factory (2005) ,
directed by Tim Burton and starring.

Author Biography:

Roald Dahl (Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, September 13, 1916-Oxford, England,

November 23, 1990) was a novelist and author of short stories, British of Norwegian
descent, 1 famous writer for children and adults. Among his most popular books are
Charlie and the chocolate factory, James and the giant peach, Matilda, The great
good-natured giant, Agu Trot, The witches and Tales of the unexpected.

Roald Dahl was born in the district of Llandaff of the city of Cardiff, in Wales, on
September 13, 1916, of Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene
Hesselberg of Dahl. They imposed the name of Roald in honor of the explorer Roald
Amundsen, considered a national hero of Norway during those times.

When Roald was just three years old, his sister Astrid died of appendicitis and a few
weeks later his father, Harald, died, a victim of pneumonia, at the age of fifty-seven.
Despite her widowhood, her mother preferred to keep the family in Wales to return
to Norway to live with their relatives, to fulfill the desire of her husband that their
children were educated in British schools.

Roald attended the cathedral school in Llandaff. At the age of eight, Roald Dahl
and four of his friends were whipped by the director after putting a dead mouse in
a candy jar (specifically, of inflamofletes) in a neighborhood store, punishment that
his mother considered excessive, removing him from the school. When he was nine
years old, Roald Dahl was sent to St. Peter's School, a private school in the coastal
city of Weston-super-Mare, which he attended from 1923 to 1929. From the age of
thirteen he was educated at Repton School, in Derbyshire , where he was assistant
to the prefect, he became captain of the fives school team and developed his
interest in photography. During his years in Repton, Cadbury, a chocolate factory,
occasionally sent boxes of his new products to school to be tested by the students.
Dahl used to dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would be the
astonishment of Mr. Cadbury himself, which inspired him to write his second book for
children, Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Throughout his childhood and adolescence, he spent his summer vacation in

Norway. His childhood is the subject of his book, Boy (childhood stories), in which he
insists that this book is not his autobiography, since he insists that he would never
dream of writing an autobiography. Roald says that Boy are stories and memories
of a childhood full of fun.

trained in aerial combat or how to fly the Gloster Gladiators.

On September 19, 1940, Dahl would fly his Gladiator from Abu Suwiur, in Egypt, to
Amiriya to refuel, and then to Fouka, Libya, for a second charge. From there he
would fly to the 80 squadron track, fifty kilometers south of Mersah Matruh. In the
final stretch, he could not find the runway and, short of fuel and with the night falling,
he was forced to attempt a landing in the desert. Unfortunately, the landing gear
hit a rock and the plane crashed. Roald fractured his skull, broke his nose and went
blind. He managed to crawl away from the burning plane, and he fainted. Later,
he wrote about the accident in his first published work. In an investigation of the RAF
about the event, it was discovered that the location to which he had been ordered
to fly was completely incorrect, having been sent to an area between the British
and Italian forces.

He began writing in 1942, when he was transferred to Washington, as an attached

air attache. His first published work, published in the Saturday Evening Post on August
1, 1942, was a story entitled "Pan comido," describing his accident with the Gloster
Gladiator. The original title in English was "A piece of cake", but it was changed to
"Shot down over Libya" ("Down over Libya"). Even though the accident had nothing
to do with the enemy action.

He died of leukemia on November 23, 1990, at his home, Gipsy House, in Great
Missenden, Buckinghamshire, at the age of seventy-four and was buried in the
cemetery of the parish of St. Peter and St. Paul. In his honor, the Roald Dahl Children's
Gallery was opened at the Bucks County Museum in nearby Aylesbury. Dahl's
solidarity commitments in the fields of neurology, hematology and literacy have
been continued after his death through the Roald Dahl Foundation. In June 2005,
the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center was opened in Great Missenden to
celebrate the work of Roald Dahl and advance his efforts in literacy.