Finding Fate's Father: Some Life History Influences on Roald Dahl's <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>
1998; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 21; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bio.2010.0270
ISSN1529-1456
Autores Tópico(s)American and British Literature Analysis
ResumoRoald Dahl thought quite a lot of chocolate. At age nine, Dahl attended school near a sweets shop whose emissions he happily sniffed. An adolescence spent in an otherwise dreary English Public School was at intervals partially redeemed by the nearby Cadbury Company. Dahl his lucky classmates sometimes got to taste test experimental chocolates, rating them writing out their reactions. Dahl liked to imagine himself working there, and suddenly would come up with something so absolutely unbearably delicious that would grab it in my hand go rushing along the corridor right into the office of the great Mr. Cadbury himself, who after tasting Dahl's discovery would then leap from his chair crying, 'You got it! We'll sweep the world with this one!' (Boy 148^49). Foreshadowings of Willy Wonka's factory appear even in Dahl's first major book for children, James the Giant Peach, when the impossibly massive fruit runs over just such an establishment on its way to thrilling adventures at sea. When, however, Dahl eventually got around to writing Charlie the Chocolate Factory, there his fascination with everything chocolate found its fullest expression. Dahl himself traces the novel's origin to the Cadbury experience: I have no
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