- Augustus falls into Mr. Wonka's chocolate river and is sucked up a pipe while trying to drink from the river. He gets stuck in the pipe until pressure from melted chocolate builds up and shoots him through. - Mr. Wonka takes the remaining guests on a boat ride down the chocolate river, passing colorful rooms until they arrive at the Inventing Room, Mr. Wonka's favorite, where he is creating new candies like Everlasting Gobstoppers.

1. CHARLIE AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Roald Dahl

2. Chapter 17 :
Augustus Gloop Goes up the
Pipe
Summary

3. Summary
◦ When Mr. Wonka realizes what Augustus
is doing, he begs him to stop. Augustus
pays no attention. He is now lying full-
length on the ground, "deaf to everything
but the call of his enormous stomach." He
leans so far over the riverbank that he
topples in. Mr. Gloop prepares to dive
into the river, but Augustus is sucked into
the mouth of one of the glass pipes
before his father can do anything.

4. Summary
◦ Augustus starts to shoot up the pipe, but
he gets stuck. The melted chocolate
builds up behind him until the pressure
dislodges the boy. Up again he goes, and
disappears from view.

5. Summary
◦ A giggling Mr. Wonka tries to reassure
Mrs. Gloop. "He'll come out of it just fine,
you wait and see." He summons an
Oompa-Loompa and asks him to take Mr.
and Mrs. Gloop to the Fudge Room,
where that particular pipe leads. "Take a
long stick and start poking around inside
the big chocolate-mixing barrel."

6. Summary
◦ As the Gloops are
hurried away, the five
Oompa-Loompas on
the far side of the river
begin dancing and
beating tiny drums.
Then they begin to sing
a long song that begins
"Augustus Gloop!
Augustus Gloop! The
great big greedy
nincompoop ..."

7. Chapter 18 :
Down the Chocolate River
Summary

8. Summary
◦ Mr. Wonka promises that Augustus will
be all right. He urges the rest of the
group to follow him to the next room,
where a pink rowboat boat "like a Viking
boat of old" is waiting in the river. It's Mr.
Wonka's private yacht, carved out of an
enormous boiled sweet (hard candy). A
hundred Oompa-Loompas are manning
the oars. Everyone climbs aboard, and the
boat sets off.

9. Summary
◦ Charlie sits with Grandpa Joe, tightly
clutching the old man's hand. The
adventure has already been so amazing
that he wonders how there can be any
"astonishments" left to see. As he and
Grandpa Joe savor mugs of melted
chocolate, the boat heads into a huge
tunnel at breakneck speed. They pass
colorful doors with enticing signs—"ALL
THE CREAMS;" "WHIPS—ALL SHAPES
AND SIZES"—and finally arrive at a
bright red door. "Stop the boat!" yells
Mr. Wonka.

10. Chapter 19 :
The Inventing Room—
Everlasting Gobstoppers and
Hair Toffee Summary

11. Summary
◦ The sign on the red door reads "Inventing
Room." Mr. Wonka explains it's the most
important room in the whole factory. Until
now he's the only person who's ever been
inside it.

12. Summary
◦ Charlie thinks the place looks like a witch's
kitchen, but it's clear this is Mr. Wonka's
favorite room. He skitters around lifting pot
lids and turning knobs. Then he rushes over
to the Everlasting Gobstopper machine,
which makes candy that never grows smaller
no matter how long it's sucked. Next he
shows the group a saucepan filled with
bubbling purple stuff—Hair Toffee, says Mr.
Wonka.

13. QUESTIONS

14. Why did Mr.
Wonka want
Augustus to
stay out of his
Chocolate
River?
◦ When he sees Augustus drinking from the river, Mr.
Wonka pleads with him to stop, saying that his
chocolate must remain unsullied by human hands.

15. Why did
Augustus get
stuck in the
pipe? What
finally shot him
like a bullet
through the
pipe?
Augustus' weight blocked the chocolate from going in the
pipe at first, but the pressure built up and sent Augustus
shooting through the pipe like a bullet

16. Why was Mr.
Wonka sure
Augustus would
not be made
into
marshmallows?
Augustus cannot possibly be made into a
marshmallow because the pipe in which he is trapped
does not lead to the marshmallow room.

17. What did Mr.
Wonka give to
Charlie and
Grandpa Joe
that he didn’t
give to the
others? Why?
◦Wonka dips a mug into the
chocolate river and gives
both Charlie and Grandpa
Joe a cup of warm chocolate
to drink, saying that they
look like they need it.

18. Why was the
Inventing Room
“the most
important room
in the entire
factory”?
◦ Because it was where MR Wonka created all of his
candy and inventions. And the room all the people
want to see, so that they could steal his inventions.

19. Why did Mr.
Wonka believe
that Everlasting
Gobstoppers
would last
forever?
◦ Mr. Wonka explains that the green balls are a new
invention—everlasting Gobstoppers—designed for
poor children: they can be sucked indefinitely and
never grow smaller. Violet thinks this sounds like
gum, but Mr. Wonka tells her that if she were to
bite one it would break her jaw. He also explains
that an Oompa-Loompa next door is testing a
gobstopper and has been sucking it for the last
year without it getting any smaller.

20. Why were the
children and their
parents so
surprised when
one piece of gum
appeared?
◦ Because so many tubes and liquids poured into a
large tub, to only then have one piece of gum
appear is silly.