Charlie and the Chocolate Factory chapter 24-27

1. CHARLIE AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Roald Dahl

2. Chapter 24 :
Veruca in the Nut Room
Summary

3. Summary
◦ When the group reaches the Nut Room,
Mr. Wonka suggests they peek through
the glass panel of the door. But he warns
them they mustn't go into the room or
they'll disturb the squirrels.

4. Summary
◦ Inside the Nut Room 100 squirrels are
sitting on stools around the table, rapidly
shelling walnuts. Mr. Wonka explains
they've been trained to extract the nuts in
one piece. He points out that the squirrels
always tap the nuts first to make sure
they're not rancid. Any bad nuts they find
are thrown down the garbage chute in
the floor.

5. Summary
◦ Veruca Salt now decides she wants one
of these squirrels. Her father pulls out
his wallet, but Mr. Wonka says the
squirrels aren't for sale. Angrily, Veruca
flings open the Nut Room door and
rushes inside.

6. Summary
◦ She reaches out to grab a squirrel. In a
flash the squirrels leap onto her and pin
her down. One of them taps her head
with its knuckles, as it's been trained to
do with walnuts. Her head must sound
hollow, because the squirrels pull Veruca
to the ground, drag her across the floor,
and throw her down the garbage chute.

7. Summary
◦ Mr. and Mrs. Salt rush into the room.
When Mrs. Salt bends over the garbage
chute to call Veruca, the squirrels push
her down the chute. When Mr. Salt bends
over the chute, trying to spot his wife, the
same thing happens to him.

8. Summary
◦ Mr. Wonka hopes this isn't
one of the days when the
garbage is incinerated.
Maybe the Salts will be
lucky.

9. Chapter 25 :
The Great Glass Elevator
Summary

10. Summary
◦ "My feet are getting tired," whines Mike
Teavee. "I want to watch television."
◦ In that case Mr. Wonka suggests, they
should take the elevator. As might be
expected, it's unlike any elevator Charlie
has ever seen. Mr. Wonka explains
proudly that it can go in any direction and
can visit any single room in the factory. All
you have to do is press the button for that
room. He adds that the elevator is made
of glass so that riders can see out.

11. Summary
◦ Mr. Wonka says Charlie and Mike may
each pick one room to visit.
Immediately, Mike presses the button
that says TELEVISION CHOCOLATE. The
elevator leaps sideways, throwing
everyone but Mr. Wonka to the ground.
When they get up, it swerves and
topples the riders again. Next, it begins
to climb.

12. Summary
◦ Looking through the thick glass, Charlie sees amazing sights: a fudge mountain, a lake of hot
caramel, and an Oompa-Loompa village. Then the elevator begins to plummet again. When it
finally stops, everyone but Mr. Wonka is badly shaken up. As they alight from the elevator,
Mr. Wonka warns them that the room contains dangerous equipment "and you must not
tamper with it."

13. Chapter 26 :
The Television-Chocolate Room
Summary

14. Summary
◦ The Television Chocolate room is so
bright that Mr. Wonka presses sunglasses
on everyone. When his eyes have
adjusted, Charlie sees they're in a white
room that's dominated by an enormous
camera on wheels. "A whole army of
Oompa-Loompas" is gathered around the
camera, "oiling its joints and adjusting its
knobs and polishing its great glass lens."
Charlie can tell the Oompa-Loompas are
tense: something about this camera is
dangerous.

15. Summary
◦ Six Oompa-Loompas come in carrying a
mattress-sized piece of chocolate and
position it in front of the camera lens.
One of them presses a switch, and there's
a blinding flash. The huge chocolate bar
vanishes. Mr. Wonka rushes the group
over to a large television at the other end
of the room. The screen lights up, and a
small chocolate bar appears in the middle
of the screen.

16. Summary
◦ "Take it!" says Mr. Wonka to Charlie. The boy
reaches out and touches the screen, and the
chocolate bar comes away in his fingers. "It's
the same bar!" Mr. Wonka says. "It's gotten
smaller on the journey, that's all!"

17. Summary
◦ He explains that this process will be used for television commercials.
An announcer will say that if people don't believe Wonka's
chocolates are the best in the world, they should try one—now.
Then viewers will be able to reach out and pick up the chocolate
that appears on their screen.

18. Chapter 27 :
Mike Teavee is Sent by
Television
Summary

19. Summary
◦ Mike is thrilled about the possibility that he,
too, could be sent from one place to
another via TV camera. He runs pell-mell
toward the camera, pulls down the switch,
and jumps in front of the huge TV lens.
There's a blinding flash, and Mike
disappears.

20. Summary
◦ "We must watch the television set," says
Mr. Wonka. "He may come through at any
moment." Helpfully, he adds that he
hopes no part of Mike is left behind. But
after he's adjusted the TV for a few
seconds, Mike's tiny image appears on
the screen. He's squeaking "Hi, Mum! ...
Hi, Pop"—squeaking because he's now
only an inch tall. As happened with the
huge chocolate mattress, he's been
shrunk to tiny size.

21. Summary
◦ Mrs. Teavee asks if there's
anything Mr. Wonka can do. He
suggests putting Mike into a
machine he uses for testing the
stretchiness of chewing gum.
Small boys are extremely springy
and elastic," he reassures Mike's
parents. "They stretch like mad."

22. Summary
◦ So an Oompa-Loompa
leads the Teavee family
away—Mike struggling
and protesting in his
father's pocket—and the
rest of the Oompa-
Loompas begin a song
about the perils of
watching too much TV.

24. QUESTIONS

25. WHY DID MR.
WONKA USE
SQUIRRELS TO
SHELL THE
WALNUTS?
Because squirrels
get 100% of the
nut out most of
the time.

26. WHY DO THE
SQUIRRELS PECK
AT VERUCA’S
HEAD?
They wanted to
see if she was a
good nut or a bad
nut.

27. WHY DID THE
SQUIRRELS THROW
VERUCA DOWN
THE GARBAGE
CHUTE?
Becuase they
decided she was a
bad nut.

28. WHOM DID THE
OOMPA-LOOMPAS
BLAME FOR
VERUCA’S
BEHAVIOR? DO YOU
AGREE?
Mr. and Mrs. Salt
was to blame
because they
spoiled Veruca too
much.

29. What made Mr.
Wonka’s
elevator
different from
others?
It was made of glass and it had buttons everywhere
even on the ceiling.

30. According to Mr.
Wonka, why did the
chocolate bar have
to be enormous in
order for him to
send it through the
TV?
Because a lot of the chocolate bar goes missing
during the transfer process.