As a rewind for helping to catch the thieves, Wonka gives him his own sweet shop, “Charlie’s Chocolate Shop”. Witness burglars thieving, and then free from the chocolate. Taken as a present for Willy Wonka’s son, Freddie. Demise: (yes, Charlie is a “bad kid” in the original draft) climbs into a “Chocolate Boy” mold in the Easter Egg room (a room full of life-size chocolate animals, men, woman, boys, girls, babies and some eggs the size of automobiles) and is trapped in chocolate. Demise: thrown away by the squirrels in the Nut Room.Ĭharlie Bucket. Demise: they eat too much of “warming candies” and overheatĮlvira Entwhistle. Demise: turns purple after chewing the three-course-meal-gum Ĭlarence Crump + Bertie Upside + Terence (formerly Trevor) Roper. Violet Strabismus (formerly Glockenberry ?). They end up in the “Pounding and Cutting Room”. Demise: both climb in one of the wagons at the foot of the Vanilla Fudge Mountain. Demise: falls in the Chocolate River, despite the example of Augustus But they stay mainly blank.Īugustus Pottle.
Here, Charlie finds the ticket on his first attempt and the nine other kids are not presented until it’s time for their demise. Wonka gives a tour of his factory to the ten winners. That's why he organize these weekly visits). Wonka had to abandon his "open-door policy" because everybody wanted to go in his factory and it caused incredible riots. Here ten tickets are hidden in Wonka chocolates bar each week (Mr. First draft: “Charlie’s Chocolate Boy” (1961) So she broke off the nose and when she saw a real human nose sticking out underneath and two bright human eyes staring at her through the eye-holes in the chocolate she got a nasty shock. She would start with the head, she thought. On Easter Day, the little girl opened the box with her present in it and took it out, and then she decided to eat some of it. And it was Easter time, and the figure was put in a shop window, and at the end a lady came in and bought it as an Easter present for her little girl and carried it home. It was a splendid big chocolate figure, a chocolate boy the same size as him. I wrote a story about a little boy who was going round a chocolate factory and he accidentally fell into a big tub of melted chocolate and got sucked unto the machine that made chocolate figures and he couldn’t get out. Here is what Dahl had to say about it : The very first time I did it, I got everything wrong. In this draft we only know that the hero was a little boy visiting a chocolate factory owned by Mr. And to begin this kind-of-study, I will start with a quick recap of the different drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (source: The Roald Dahl archives + )ĭraft Zero : the first draft Roald Dahl wrote, lost.