Chocolate Factory Charlie or Willy Wonka?

Charlie Bucket was the book's original star

(American Vintage Tales) Nobody realized what the "Chocolate Factory" was hiding, not even sassy, greedy, entitled Veruca Salt. It becomes clear that this whole franchise is not about the kids. Like Gilligan's Island, it's really a morality play about human archetypes and personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins under a sweet and sinister examiner. That's why it resonates so well.

• BOOK: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• FILM: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
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• List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters