![]() ![]() The mould closes, and the chocolate pours over his body and he is suffocating and nearly drowning in it. Wonka helps him into the mould and gets distracted. “And of course Charlie Bucket – who in this version is a black boy, and is accompanied by his two doting parents,” Keyser said.Ĭharlie, she added, “ends up in the Easter Room, where there are life-size candy moulds of creatures, and one of these is shaped like a chocolate boy. But Augustus Gloop was named Augustus Pottle and there were two more children: Marvin Prune and Miranda Piker. According to Keyser, the setup is similar to Dahl’s bestseller, with a magical chocolate factory owned by “Willie” Wonka, and children vying for a golden ticket to visit it. Now Catherine Keyser, a professor of English at the University of South Carolina, has told the New York Times about the original plot of Dahl’s draft, Charlie’s Chocolate Boy. ![]()
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