Many times a day, he would see other children taking bars of creamy chocolate out of their pockets and munching them greedily, and that, of course, was pure torture. Walking to school in the mornings, Charlie could see great slabs of chocolate piled up high in the shop windows, and he would stop and stare and press his nose against the glass, his mouth watering like mad. The one thing he longed for more than anything else was … CHOCOLATE. He desperately wanted something more filling and satisfying than cabbage and cabbage soup.
And although his father and mother often went without their own share of lunch or supper so that they could give it to him, it still wasn't nearly enough for a growing boy. The Buckets, of course, didn't starve, but every one of them - the two old grandfathers, the two old grandmothers, Charlie's father, Charlie's mother, and especially little Charlie himself - went about from morning till night with a horrible empty feeling in their tummies.Ĭharlie felt it worst of all. They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, everyone was allowed a second helping. The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. There wasn't even enough money to buy proper food for them all. But a toothpaste cap-screwer is never paid very much money, and poor Mr Bucket, however hard he worked, and however fast he screwed on the caps, was never able to make enough to buy one half of the things that so large a family needed. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps on to the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled. Mr Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. There wasn't any question of them being able to buy a better house - or even one more bed to sleep in. In the summertime, this wasn't too bad, but in the winter, freezing cold draughts blew across the floor all night long, and it was awful. Mr and Mrs Bucket and little Charlie Bucket slept in the other room, upon mattresses on the floor. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine on this side, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina on this side. They were so tired, they never got out of it. The bed was given to the four old grandparents because they were so old and tired.
There were only two rooms in the place altogether, and there was only one bed. The house wasn't nearly large enough for so many people, and life was extremely uncomfortable for them all. The whole of this family - the six grown-ups (count them) and little Charlie Bucket - live together in a small wooden house on the edge of a great town. How d'you do? And how d'you do? And how d'you do again? He is pleased to meet you. Mr and Mrs Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie. Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.Īnd these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs Bucket. These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket.
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