Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Vocabulary & Concepts

Vocabulary and key terms covering the events, characters, and inventions from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie Bucket

An extremely poor boy who lives with his parents and four grandparents in a tiny two-room house and receives only one small chocolate bar a year on his birthday.

Mr. Willy Wonka

The energetic, brilliantly dressed owner of the world's largest chocolate factory, who has a pointed beard and twinkling eyes.

Prince Pondicherry

An Indian prince who commissioned Mr. Willy Wonka to build him a palace entirely out of chocolate, which eventually melted in the hot sun.

Golden Ticket

One of five hidden passes in ordinary Wonka bars that grants the finder a factory tour, a lifetime supply of chocolate, and other surprises.

Augustus Gloop

The first Golden Ticket winner, described as enormously fat and greedy, who falls into the chocolate river in the Chocolate Room.

Veruca Salt

The second Golden Ticket winner, a spoiled girl whose wealthy father bought hundreds of thousands of candy bars and had his factory workers unwrap them.

Violet Beauregarde

The third Golden Ticket winner, a world-record gum chewer who turns into a giant blueberry after trying an experimental three-course dinner gum.

Mike Teavee

The fourth Golden Ticket winner, who watches television all day, carries toy guns, and gets shrunk to one inch tall in the Television-Chocolate Room.

Grandpa Joe

Charlie's grandfather who leaps out of bed for the first time in 20 years after Charlie finds the fifth Golden Ticket and accompanies him on the factory tour.

February 1st at 10 a.m.

The exact date and time specified on the Golden Ticket for the winners and their chosen family members to gather at the factory gates.

The Chocolate Room

An underground valley inside the factory containing a river of hot melted chocolate, a waterfall, edible grass, and glass sucking pipes.

Oompa-Loompas

Tiny workers, no taller than a knee, imported from Loompaland to work in the factory in exchange for unlimited cacao beans.

Loompaland

The region where the Oompa-Loompas lived and were starving before Mr. Willy Wonka brought them to work in his chocolate factory.

Everlasting Gobstoppers

Sweets created in the Inventing Room that never get any smaller, even if sucked for an entire year.

Hair Toffee

An experimental sweet designed by Mr. Wonka to make hair grow instantly.

The Nut Room

A room where trained squirrels sit at a table cracking walnuts perfectly and determining good nuts from bad nuts.

The Great Glass Lift

An elevator lined with buttons for hundreds of rooms that can travel in any direction rather than just up and down.

UP AND OUT

The button inside the Great Glass Lift that launches the elevator straight through the factory roof into the sky.