1. Roald Dahl

2. Roald Dahl 1916-1990: novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter
The Official Roald Dahl Website

3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
 1964
adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka
inspired by Roald Dahl's experience during his schooldays
chocolate companies often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new product
two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory
both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes.
It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story
charlie and the chocolate factory audiobook chapter 1

4. Plot
11-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty in a tiny house with his parents and four grandparents. His grandparents share the only bed in the house, located in the only bedroom. Charlie and his parents sleep on a mattress on the floor. One day, Grandpa Joe tells him about the legendary and eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka and all the wonderful candy he made until the other candymakers sent in spies to steal his secret recipes, which lead to him closing the factory forever. The next day, the newspaper announces that Wonka is reopening the factory and has invited five children to come on a tour, after they find a golden ticket in a Wonka Bar. The first four golden tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, the spoiled and petulant Veruca Salt, the gum-addicted Violet Beauregarde, and the TV-obsessed Mike Teavee.

5. Plot
One day, Charlie sees a fifty-pence coin buried in the snow. He then buys himself a Wonka Bar and finds the fifth golden ticket and shows it to his parents. The ticket says he can only bring one family member with him to the factory and Charlie decides to take Grandpa Joe.

6. Plot
After meeting Wonka, the kids and their parents go inside and Wonka welcomes them to the Chocolate Room where they meet Oompa-Loompas a race of small people who help Wonka operate the factory since he rescued them from poverty and fear in their home country of Loompaland. With only Charlie remaining, Willy Wonka congratulates him for "winning" the factory and, after explaining his true age and the reason behind his golden tickets, names Charlie his successor. They ride the Great Glass Elevator to Charlie's house while the other four children go home.

7. Themes
Greed
Roald Dahl uses a book about chocolate, the ultimate indulgence, to relay a message about the dangers of greed.
All four of the naughty children are greedy in some way: Augustus is a glutton; Veruca is a spoiled brat; Violet is greedy for gum, and Mike is greedy for television.
This book illustrates how greed can consume and ultimately destroy a person, particularly children, since each child is changed forever as a result of his or her greed.

8. Themes Poverty Versus Wealth
The difference between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ runs throughout the text of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie is heartbreakingly poor, and this causes us to heavily sympathize with him. It also makes the climactic scene, where he receives ownership of the factory, that much sweeter.
Charlie handles his poverty quite well. He doesn’t desire unimaginable riches; he only wants enough to get by, and to have the occasional chocolate bar. Of course, Charlie ends up fabulously wealthy, and he can provide for his entire extended family.

9. Themes Kindness and Humility
One of the most notable things about Charlie and the rest of the Bucket family is that despite that bad hand that life has dealt them, they are constantly kind to each other and others, showing compassion in the way they care for one another during their hard times. The entire family tries to share their food with Charlie, and Charlie in return tries to share his food with them. They are grateful for what they have, even if it is not a lot. Growing up in a home that places these important values above all else has shaped Charlie into the upstanding child that he is, and distances him from the unkind, ungrateful children who are eliminated from the contest.