Willy Wonka As A Role Model In 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'

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A Role model is someone that you've picked to guide the profession that you love, or the life you would like to live, This could be a actor, sports star, school teacher/professor or even your parents, To choose one is not something you do frivolity, It requires deep thought and careful choice to appoint someone to that amount if responsibility over the path you will follow for the rest of your life. It seems weird not to be able to label my role model as a living breathing person or someone of significant historical value to my heritage or profession, Willy Wonka is a character by Roal Dahl from the novel: “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, And even thought Charlie bucket is the main character I believe that it is Willy that brings the …show more content…

The Story of Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket is one of great dichotomy, Mr. Wonka's extravagance and wonder seems to greatly contrast Charlies humble living conditions, even early on we see that he is a young man with little to no hope in ever getting ahead in life and improving his situation. As the story continues and during the fever to attain all the golden tickets we are shown 4 different and extreme versions of bad child behavior, from the glutenous Agustus gloop, to the ever insatiable Varuca salt, these awful children make you want to cheer to charlie and throughout all the different rooms in the factory and as they lost all the “bad” children one by one leaving charlie as the only mind possible to continue the work of the retiring Wonka, stating that Charlie would be the only one who would understand his needs because he has the “mind and imagination of a child”, Truly a story and concept that we can use in anything we hope to accomplish in our

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