Though Roald Dahl was faced with obstacles in his life he was still able to become one of the greatest British authors writing such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a story filled with a little more than just imagination. This story is a story filled with a bit of reality and struggles ROald Dahl had gone through as a child. Dahl you can say was a piece of cake.
Roald Dahl was born september 13, 1916 in Landoff, south wales, United Kingdom. He died on November 23, 1990 in Oxford, United Kingdom. He died at the age of 74, after suffering an unspecified infection, on November 12, 1990. As a child, Dahl spent most of his summers with his grandparents in oslo. When Dahl was four years old his father unfortunately passed away (Roald Dahl 1) .
Dahl was enrolled in St. Peters a British boarding school after playing a practical joke and being punished harshly by the principal. Dahl had later transferred to a private school called Repton. It had a reputation for academic excellence. Dahl’s mother offered to pay for his tuition in Oxford or Cambridge University. Dahl denied his mother’s offer in his unique way with a quote from one of his story which goes as follows, “No thank you. I want to go straight to work for a company that will send me to a wonderful faraway place like Africa …show more content…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a meditation on what Artaud called” marginality of fate”. This story was inspired by his childhood, when he was in the school repton, it was next to a chocolate factory. His classmates and him were willing guinea pigs of the famous chocolate-making company, Cadburys. Every year him and his friends were sent chocolates to taste and they were invited to share their thoughts on each and everyone of the chocolates they tasted. All these memories came back to him leading him to writing this fascinating story(schultz
Roald Dahl was born september 13, 1916 in Landoff, south wales, United Kingdom. He died on November 23, 1990 in Oxford, United Kingdom. He died at the age of 74, after suffering an unspecified infection, on November 12, 1990. As a child, Dahl spent most of his summers with his grandparents in oslo. When Dahl was four years old his father unfortunately passed away (Roald Dahl 1) .
Dahl was enrolled in St. Peters a British boarding school after playing a practical joke and being punished harshly by the principal. Dahl had later transferred to a private school called Repton. It had a reputation for academic excellence. Dahl’s mother offered to pay for his tuition in Oxford or Cambridge University. Dahl denied his mother’s offer in his unique way with a quote from one of his story which goes as follows, “No thank you. I want to go straight to work for a company that will send me to a wonderful faraway place like Africa …show more content…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a meditation on what Artaud called” marginality of fate”. This story was inspired by his childhood, when he was in the school repton, it was next to a chocolate factory. His classmates and him were willing guinea pigs of the famous chocolate-making company, Cadburys. Every year him and his friends were sent chocolates to taste and they were invited to share their thoughts on each and everyone of the chocolates they tasted. All these memories came back to him leading him to writing this fascinating story(schultz