This is my first fantasy book ever! And, oh how I love this
book!
All the while am reading this book, I had only one question:
“Why didn’t I come across such a beautiful book when I was a child?”
No wonder, Roald Dahl is one of the greatest writers we had,
especially for children, shaping their attitude at such a young age with his
awesome characters like Curious Charlie Bucket, the greedy boy Augustus Gloop,
a girl who was spoiled by her parents Veruca Salt, and the amazing Willy Wonka,
curator of the world’s fabulous Chocolate Factory.
You can find waterfalls of chocolate over flowing between
the pages of this book, the great gum machines which will fill up your stomach
for the whole day, the square sweets that look round, the crazy lift which not
only goes up and down but also sideways with a lightning speed that you’d
rather prefer to be on a roller coaster, chocolates which you can snatch right
from the Television set and gobble them up, and many other amazing things in
this book which will make you dwell in that Fantasy world of Chocolate Factory and
never feel like coming out of it!
Roald Dahl made me smell the hot melting chocolate just
through his descriptions and quirky words without even having the physical
presence of a chocolate! Also, the illustrations by Quentin Blake where just on point! His illustrations gave the
essential imagination a child needs to travel through that mysterious Chocolate
Factory and enjoy as Mr. Willy Wonka guides us through it.
This book doesn’t teach a child “how to be” but it teaches “how
not to be”. And, that’s what I loved
the most! We can’t point something is good, because there is going to be a
better thing other than that if we just explore. But, we sure can point out
that something is bad and in my
opinion its more important to learn what is bad at first than to learn what is
good.
I suggest this book to both adults and young readers,
because a book such as this is timeless and we can still learn a lot from it.
If not that, we can still enjoy the fantasy land in which the characters of
Roald Dahl live.
Go on and explore Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory! I’m sure, you’ll feel like having more of that
fantasy by the time you finish it.
