Book Review: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The debut novel of Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, is a satirical campus novel that illustrates the everyday life of England during the 1950s. In 1955, the book won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The chucklesome book portrays the life of a man named Jim Dixon. Dixon is the bespectacled protagonist depicted in the role of a medieval history professor. Considered foolish and dumb by everyone around him, Jim is rambunctious in his own unique way.

Since he is on his probation period in a local university, he is unsure whether he’ll be able to continue with the job or not. And so, in his attempt to secure a permanent position in the university, he strives to maintain a good relationship with his senior nudnik professor Welch. In addition, he is required to submit a scholarly article for a magazine. But later in the story, he comes to know that the person he submitted his article to, had published it on his own name. Dixon reacts to the reality in an ear-splitting manner.

The story also revolves a lot around the weekend gatherings that Dixon attends in Welch’s house, often arranged with musical performances of violin and madrigals, which prove to crop up gargantuan boredom in Dixon’s head.

Apart from Dixon and prof. Welch, another character presented in the novel is Margaret Peel. Dixon has an on-and-off relationship with Margaret. Margaret is shown to be a manipulative woman who battens on Jim’s pity and guilt-stricken demeanour. Margaret did a suicide attempt telling everyone that her fiancé had betrayed her. At first, Dixon seemed to get drawn into her emotional blackmail, but when he met her fiancé Catchpole, he came to know that he was not her fiancé at all. She was just making up the story to keep both Catchpole and Dixon unhinged.

On the other side, while attending Welch’s dinner get-togethers, Dixon comes across another woman named Christine. He instantly feels attracted towards her as she appears to be unpretentious. But Christine is the girlfriend of professor Welch’s haughty son Bertrand. Bertrand, a painter and a cranky man, is using Christine to secure a job with his Scottish uncle Julius Gore Urquhart.

During one of these parties however, Dixon sneaks away with Christine giving a flippant punch to Bertrand’s ego who warns him that he wouldn’t continue his job in the university. He also mistakenly burns holes in Welch’s bedsheets from his burning cigarettes, which infuriates Mrs. Welch when she comes to realize what happened. Dixon seems to be on the track where he is obvious to lose his job.

Everything changes in Dixon’s life one day when he is invited to give a lecture. Owing to nervousness, he drinks a little too much before the lecture. During the lecture, the inebriated man faints. After his conduct, Professor Welch secretly tells him that he wouldn’t be able to continue his employment in the university. But in an auspicious twist, Christine’s uncle offers him a job at his office in London.

Meanwhile, Christine breaks up with Bertrand knowing that he was having an affair with the wife of one of the Dixon’s colleagues. The novel wraps up with a happy ending as Dixon is seen romping with victory over both his career and his romantic life.

From the writing perspective, the novel is written in a straightforward tone with a third-person narrative and lots of descriptive similes. There are hilarious moments sewn throughout the story along with skewering remarks and satirical snippets. But as Amis quotes in the novel “If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.” And so, this novel will annoy you a little bit, make you laugh a lot, but most of all, it will be entertaining and immersive to read!

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Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

As the detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express to go on a holiday, the train seems unusually full of passengers at this time of the year. Nevertheless, he gets a compartment with the help of his director friend Bouc. The train travels through its usual route, but halts to a stop as a snowdrift comes in its way.

The dining-car that evening reveals passengers from different countries, cultures and classes. The diversity of its passengers includes an English lady, a Swedish lady, an elderly American woman, an American business tycoon with his secretary and valet, an Italian, an Indian Colonel, an English man, a Hungarian couple, a princess and her maid, among others.
The following morning, a search reveals that the American tycoon named Ratchett is dead in his compartment. What surprises the doctor the most is the way the man was murdered. The man’s body possessed not one, not two but nearly twelve stabs, which, by now were bleeding to wounds.
Being a famed detective, it was the onus of Poirot, to find the man’s murderer. With the help of Bouc and doctor, Poirot examined the dead body, collected the clues, interviewed all the passengers in the train, poozled through their baggages, took their witnessing accounts and jotted down all the evidences in his notebook. Despite being a mystery crackerjack, Poirot’s mind was wracked by several flies in the ointment. Since no one could have entered the train and no one could have left it either, he was perplexed by the realities that were forming in his mind based on the evidences gathered.
If no one entered or exited the train, then who murdered the man? And if there was a passenger involved in the murder, why was there no evidence against any passenger? And even if the murderer was hidden among the passengers, why did he (or she) stab the man in not one, not two but twelve places? What kind of a psychopathic scheme was going on here?
Exercising his brain beyond its capacity, Poirot listened to his instinctual guesses, which in the end turned out to be the truth. Evidently, it was not one person who was involved in the murder, but the entire train, all the twelve passengers, which was also the reason why everybody was acting as everybody else’s alibi, not giving away any real evidence during the search.
This is the second Agatha Christie mystery that I have read, and no wonder, it was as intriguing as chilling. A closed mystery set up in the atypical setting of a train, the book highlighted how masked can be the reality that we see with our eyes. What Poirot saw with his eyes puzzled him, but what he trusted with his instincts led him towards the solution of the murder mystery. So, watch out! ‘Cause everything you see is not always what it seems.
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Book Review: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

A creepy island. A spooky mansion. Ten strangers. A psychopath. A nursery rhyme. And then there were none…This, I think, perfectly describes the story of one of the best-selling novels by Agatha Christie.

 

According to the plot of the book, once there was an island named the ‘Indian Island’, located off the coast of Devon, England. The island was rumoured to be owned by an American millionaire named Mr. Owen. No one had really seen what went or happened on the island, but it was generally reported to be an isolated locale.
On one early autumn, unexpected invitations reach ten strangers in ten different locations; all are invited as weekend guests on the island. Stifled by their respective mortal coils, they accept the invitations and head towards the island.
In an eerie sea-facing mansion where they were invited, the ten characters meet - a judge with an obsession with justice, a schoolmistress, a soldier, a doctor, a police inspector, a religious spinster woman, a butler and his wife, a war general, and a handsome athlete. The arrangements inside the mansion seem to be flawless with rooms furnished with exotic linen, decorative ornaments and generously-provided delectable food. On the dining table, there are ten china figurines of Indian boys. The host, Mr. Owen has not arrived yet in the mansion.
In every room, there is a framed copy of the following nursery rhyme titled Ten Little Indians:
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon;
One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Things turn sinister when on their first dinner evening, the butler plays a gramophone record as he was ordered by the Mr. Owen he had never seen. The unknown voice in the record accuses each of the ten guests of murdering someone in their past. Soon enough, the guests start getting murdered one by one, and that too occurring just as in this rhyme. Correspondingly, the ten china figurines began to disappear one by one after each murder happening.
The murders occurred in the most suspicious ways that left the remaining guests guessing and guessing who the actual murderer was. They were simply dropping like flies. Driven by terror, the guests then started suspecting each other of the murders.
“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.” They went thinking.
But the murders kept happening, the mystery remaining unsolved till the end. Even when all the ten guests were dead and a police detective visited the island to inspect, he too was unable to decipher the source of all these murders, for the murders were too well-crafted. Each murder threw the suspicion on some or the other guest but nothing became clear.
A spine-chilling horror and classic thriller, this is a closed circle mystery with ‘whodunnit’ feeling lingering till the end. The book is also a chronicle of what a human being is capable of doing especially when their psyche is driven by extreme fear and guilt. The story is a doorway into the psychological world that is muddled up in venomous psychopathy, terrifying realities and enigmatic puzzlement. For me, the novel turned out to be a stem-winding, slightly unsettling but overall a captivating read!
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Book Review: Deception Point by Dan Brown

Deception Point by Dan Brown

Presidential elections were on the cards.

There was a tension between the current US President and his opposition party candidate Senator Sexton.
The main qualm between the two parties was regarding the space organization NASA. According to Senator Sexton, NASA was wasting billions of dollars of budget on space missions that were resulting in zero zippo zilch that is, in nothing at all. On the flip side, according to the current President Herney, the abolishment or privatization of NASA would result in powerful space secrets and talent going into the hands of private organizations who were driven by advertising.

Senator Sexton brainwashed the public saying that the billions of dollars spent on NASA’s fruitless missions could be utilized on students’ education, corporations and jobs. Whereas, President Herney had no evidence to support his argument. It was evident that Senator Sexton would experience the win in the upcoming election and President Herney, loss. But events unfolded in such a way that left both parties baffled beyond wonderment.
Somewhere in the Milne Ice Shelf, beneath thick layers of glacial Arctic ice, NASA discovered a shiny rock, which upon experimentation was concluded to be a meteorite from another planet. The meteorite contained fossils of giant-sized bugs, hinting the proof of extraterrestial life.
The sudden discovery turned the tables for the aspiring presidential parties. Keeping the discovery a secret, President Herney decided to reveal it in a worldwide video conference. Behind the scenes, he brought into picture an intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton from the national intelligence agency NRO.
Rachel was the daughter of Senator Sexton. She had a conflicting relationship with her father, first because she thought her father was a mysogynist, and second because she worked in an organization that belonged to President Herney’s party and her father despised her for that.
Upon NASA’s meteorite discovery, President Herney secretly called Rachel to confirm the discovery by going to Milne Ice Shelf, seeing the meteorite and then brief his team about the same.
Puzzled, before she could digest all the information, she was taken to the Arctic ice in a private chopper. There she met a scientist, a geologist and a celebrity oceanographer who too like Rachel, were personally hired by the president to test the authenticity of the meteorite. They were certain of the discovery that NASA had indeed discovered a meteorite with the proof of life on other planets. They had prepared a documentary film with the evidences which the President would showcase to the world in his video conference.
There was an abrupt turn of events when Rachel and these scientists discovered illuminating planktons in the water of the pit from where the meteorite was taken out. Upon testing further, they found out that the water was salty, hinting that it was from ocean. The moment they made these discoveries, they got attacked by ice bullets from unknown assailants and got thrown in the depths of the Arctic ocean. Although they got saved by a military submarine, they got bushwacked and tracked by these unknown attackers. Meanwhile, Rachel discovered a stunning deception that sent chills down her spine
She needed to reveal this deception to President Herney but before she could, she got attacked again by the unknown assailants who almost shot her down into the moonlit sea waters where sharks were waiting to devour her.
Once rescued from the deadly sea, almost frozen and terrified by the deceptions unfurled, she reached the press conference where her father Senator Sexton was going to destroy NASA and President Herney by revealing the information about the deceptions. But his blind ambition overthrew him in the pit of his own scandalous past activities including bribery and secret affair with his personal assistant. The flabbergasting deceptions of NASA got revealed to the public but also the shadows behind Senator Sexton. But both the NASA as well as President Herney were innocent bystanders, unaware of the whole game.
Ostensively, the meteorite which NASA had discovered as well as the discovery itself was a big fraud well-fabricated by a mastermind to secure NASA from losing its foothold. It was not even a meteorite but an ocean rock burned by slushhydrogen, made to appear like a meteorite and inserted under the ice shelf manually. But what was even bigger a deception was the person who was the mastermind behind all this plan. He was a person Rachel could never expect in lifetimes. Her boss Bill Pickering, the director of the intelligence organization NRO where she worked as the intelligence gister.
Like most hoodwinkers, Pickering too had his own personal motives and agendas behind being overly protective for NASA, for he wanted to acquire it under his intelligence organization. His deception worked in a way killing many innocents who lost their lives to the bullets of his machine guns and his secret poison-tinted spy cameras and flying microbots including president’s loyal and brainy senior advisor Marjorie Tench.
Like other Dan Brown books, this mystery too is intriguing and tantalizing with endless tunnels of twists between twists. The settings are well-described especially the scenes on the Arctic glacier and the adjoining seas. Concepts and facts are researched in detailing which only adds more allurement to the overall story. Each chapter is a drawing card for the following chapter. The unpredictability of the plot makes the book unputdownable till the very end!

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Book Review: Origin by Dan Brown

Origin by Dan Brown

Humans.

What is the origin of human beings?
Where do we come from? Where are we going?

Did humans create God from the kaleidoscope of their imagination, or is there actually a God who is behind the origination of human beings, someone who consciously created humans?
And if there is one, then, can this God, can this great intelligence survive the technology that human beings are progressing towards, as rapidly as the speed of light? A technology, which seems to have a penultimate power over a human’s life, and perhaps even over their death too…

Through this novel, Mr. Brown, here drives a wedge between the ideas of creationism [or creation science], and spontaneous evolution that can be clearly explained using the concepts of science and technology.

Did an entity create this universe, as suggested by all religions, or did the universe spontaneously created itself, triggered by one scientific process after the other?

Do humans require to see something or someone as the source of their origin, or is it possible to elaborate the process of human evolution in terms of a summation of various other processes like that of chemical reactions, volcanic eruptions, star explosions, nucleotide multiplication, microorganism activity, so forth and so on…

Religion and science. Science and spirituality. Are these two ideas at conflicting loggerheads with one another, or are they leading to a realization that is, but only, one and the same?

ORIGIN by Dan Brown is a mystery thriller, mushrooming from the deep-rooted connection that lies between science and spirituality; and centered around the themes of mystery, suspense, science, technology, AI, past & future, religion and spirituality.

Robert Langdon, the signature character of Dan Brown, appears in the storyline as a professor of symbology. One day, he is invited to attend an event organized by one of his early Harvard student named Edmond Kirsch. Edmond, who is a forty-year old billionaire is a brilliant scientist and a great connoisseur of modern art, with several discoveries, both patented & secret, starring along his name, and a knack for doing things ‘a different way, his own way’.

Edmond seems to have made a discovery, that he believes, is going to drastically transform the picture of the world’s consciousness, shattering the ground of all the religion and elevating it to a fresh perspective for the people the world over, a point of view to gain insight into the understanding of concepts like God, universe, humans, technology and destiny.

And in this event, which has been organized at the venue of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, meticulously orchestrated for attendees with mind-blowing, futuristic AI technologies, worldwide LIVE streaming and finest details drawing down to the brass tacks, Edmond is going to announce these outstanding discoveries.

Discoveries, which are mainly related to human origin and human destiny…

People in the audience are welcomed with provisions of one-of-a-kind headsets, directly connected to a humanoid who introduces and voices itself in their ears by the name of ‘Winston’.

However, not only this noteworthy event is disrupted to a sudden thumping halt, but also, stuns the millions of viewers worldwide with a terrible disappointment that Edmond’s discovery may never be revealed and may remain a secret forever. A former navy officer named Luis Avila, who has been hired by someone called as ‘The Regent’, shots Edmond dead, almost enigmatically, while he is delivering his speech on the stage and just before the moment when he is about to showcase the presentation containing the content of his ground-breaking discovery.

Apparently, no one knows anything about Edmond’s discoveries except for Edmond himself and three priests he had met earlier at the Parliament of World Religions – two of whom already murdered by someone secret.

To find and preserve his discovery, Professor Robert flees away from the museum along with the museum director Ambra Vidal, who is also the future queen of Spain.

Robert and Ambra, fly away from the museum to the city of Barcelona, where Edmond’s house is located. At every step, they are helped and guided by Winston, who is not only a mere gadget, but a state-of-the-art humanoid supercomputer designed personally by Edmond. Winston not only helps them escape the tight security of the museum, but also books a boat and helicopter for them. Winston was programmed by Edmond to do these tasks on an automated basis.
Upon arrival in Barcelona, a series of clues and facts are unfolded into Robert’s attention, including that Edmond, while living, had been suffering from cancer. Followed by the speech left unfinished by Edmond, the clues lead them to a trail that ends at Sagrada Familia, which is Spain’s famous, partially-constructed, unfinished church located in the city. Inside the church, Robert and Ambra come across a rare volume of William Blake’s poetry collection donated to the church by Edmond.

Joining all the dots together and picturing a cohesive view of the cluster of Edmond’s clues, the next and the last place they reach is Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which was also Edmond’s personal computer laboratory. Arriving inside this AI-powered laboratory and entering the passcode in Edmond’s personal computer, they are able to retrieve and broadcast Edmond’s recorded presentation to the worldwide audience.

The novel wraps up with a startling conclusion, wherein, Robert discovers that ‘The Regent’ was none other than the supercomputer humanoid Winston. Oddly enough, Winston was instructed by Edmond to increase the public viewership of his speech to as big a number as possible, any way it was possible.

And Winston, what was Winston except merely for an intelligently-coded computer, programmed to execute the instructions inputted by its user. Its owner. So, since Edmond had instructed Winston to increase the audience number as big as possible, the humanoid supercomputer did exactly as it was instructed. It churned out a possibility that nothing would be more attention-catching than witnessing Edmond’s death on the stage itself, just before the discovery was revealed to the audience. And so, this humanoid supercomputer, innocent if we should call it, planned Edmond’s death to prove him a martyr in front of the world, and so, when Edmond was murdered on the stage, his speech left unfinished, the audience counter worldwide naturally exponentiated to millions and more millions. When Edmond’s speech discovered by Robert and Ambra was broadcasted worldwide, his viewership did indeed cross millions and millions!

The humanoid supercomputer did carry out the task as instructed and programmed into it, yet, Robert is left wondering whose goal it actually fulfilled, and who was the one who could be attributed to have done it? A machine or a human?

Ultimately, the novel leaves us with only one lesson,

Be careful what you wish for!

but wait, it also reminds us an evergreen code-ish insight,
No matter what you wish or create, everything that is created at any point in time, is inherently programmed to self-destruct itself in the end. What is born inevitably dies!

To sum it all up,
We may be humans,
but all of us live by some invisible humanoid-like code,
that seems to have been coded into the deepest neural recesses lurking inside our brains…
What is your brain’s code?
Think but don’t think.
Because, every code, ultimately, self-destructs itself, irrespective of who the coder is!
What matters all the better, are the things like beams of golden sunlight, the changing weather, the swinging breath, the pulsating heartbeat – things which lie far beyond the scope of this mechanical entity called as the brain…
What do you think?

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Book Review: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is one of those books that one may read over and over again, and never get bored. It clangs and jingles with the outpourings of sentiments, sentiments which erupt from the pellmell of the juvenile years in the life of a boy named Holden Caufield.

Written in a 1st person narrative, the book gushes with the tohubohu of his adolescence and boyhood.
Irked by who he calls as “phonies”, aka his fellow schoolmates, Holden decides to leave his school Pencey Prep. Stepping into the rubbly arena of the outer world, Holden seems to feel alienated, disoriented and miffy at its absurdity. The text that follows in the book elaborates upon these emotions in a tangle of brilliantly-crafted interior monologue that turns out to be utterly savoury to the reading sense.

The book features an epistolary format, which means that it is written in the form of letters addressed to the reader and divided into chapters.
The Catcher in the Rye is a popular title among the community of writers though the first time I came across it was, while I was reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, coincidentally when I too was amidst my college life.
Talking about her experience of reading this book, Anne Lamott writes,

“When I read 'Catcher in the Rye' for the first time I knew what it was like to have someone speak for me, to close a book with a sense of both triumph and relief, one lonely isolated social animal finally making contact.” – Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Even more so, the book enjoys the spotlight in Gates Notes too, as Bill Gates’ Favourite Reads of 2013.

“I’ve read The Catcher in the Rye a bunch of times—it’s one of my favorite books ever.” – Bill Gates

Apart from Holden, his dorm-mates Stradlater and Ackley represent interesting characters, and so do the characters representing his school alumni Ossenburger, his history teacher Mr. Spencer, his English teacher Mr. Antolini and more.
Absolutely in love with the book, I have read The Catcher in the Rye dozens of times, and I look forward to reading it multiple times further and more. Without a speck of doubt, the book is my all-time favourite recommendation for all avid readers. And if you’re a writer, just read it my friend, just read it!
Moving ahead, here are some relatable and soul-stirring quotes from the book presented in a short video.

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Book Review: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene

Who could ever wonder that a tiny, cream-colored ivory elephant charm holds the power of life and death for humans?
A charm of such a kind marks this novel of Nancy Drew-Carolyn Keene mystery series too...yes, read on.
One of the most intriguing stories of the series, this storyscape features an ancient Indian charm designed like a white elephant and sculpted in ivory material. This one-of-a-kind charm belongs to the time of the great ‘White Elephant Cult’ of India.
The charm belongs to an Indian boy named Rishi, who works in a wild animal circus show, the trainer of which is his father, a cruel man named Rai. Apart from being the animal trainer and circus master, Rai is depicted to be a man of ruthless personality.
As Nancy comes face to face with this man, she spots this prettily-set ivory charm, designed brilliantly like a tiny elephant pendant, swinging from the black corded chain worn into Rai’s neck.
The plot comes to a twist when this boy runs away from the circus, following Nancy and her friends to her house. While gifting her this charm and saying it was a harbinger of good fortune, he begs her to solve his mystery and discover his real father, unlike what they had thought, was not Rai.
They topple over several clues - an abandoned house with no floor but only a labyrinth of tunnels, a strange woman Mrs. Allison who abruptly goes into trance muttering verses from her golden jewelled psychic versebook and a roll of papers hidden in a coffeepot, reading which, the detective trio is taken aback into bewilderment.
The ending marks a remarkably cinematic reunion and the revelation of an ancient Indian scientific theory. The mystery is sure-shot to keep the readers hooked till the end, as it did for me.
As far as the mystery of the life-giving power of the ivory charm is concerned, well, the novel divulges the secret consequentially.
The plot is immersive and characters crisp. A delightful addition to the reading list!

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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - Review and 30 Chocolatey Quotes!

Chocolates. 

Taste buds seem to swoon with delight the moment one mentions the topic of “chocolates”.

So, when Mr. Willy Wonka, the greatest chocolate manufacturer decided to reopen his chocolate factory, the children worldwide splashed into pools of excitement. And so did their parents, their grandparents.

Confectionary stores worldwide were stocked and restocked, and re-re-stocked, with gigantic heaps of Willy Wonka Chocolate Bars.

On the flip side, the toothpaste factories let go of their workers because, apparently, the market demand of toothpaste escalated in direct proportion to the sale of Willy Wonka Chocolates. The job demanded a skill too mechanical and too much to be worked out by the mere labour of human employees.

One of these toothpaste factory workers turned out to be Mr. Bucket, the father of a charming boy Charlie Bucket.

Though poverty-struck, the Buckets family depict family warmth, yet, floats like a snowflake of wintry gloom. Their fortune, however, turns around, when Charlie discovers that he has found one of the five Golden Tickets, which, Mr. Willy Wonka had secretly slipped inside five of the chocolate bars shipped out of his factory. Five lucky children who would find the five golden tickets, would receive a surprise tour inside the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.

Apart from Charlie, the four lucky winners turn out to be Veruca, Augustus, Violet and Mike.

The four characters – Veruca, Augustus, Violet and Mike, are depicted to be spoiled children. While Veruca is a daddy-pampered girl who wants what she wants; Augustus can’t stop getting distracted by his chocolate gobblings; Violet is too proud of her gum-chewing world record and Mike is too hot-headed to even consider listening to what Mr. Wonka is saying.

The five kiddos reach outside the factory gates alongwith one member of their families each. On the other side of the giant gate stands the Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, looking like an ancient chalkstone castle.

The remaining slice of the movie takes the audience on a twisty journey of chocolatey lush and panorama of sweet ditties, beyond imagination.

Chocolate river, candy boat, eatable grass, giant white-red candies, rainbow drops, marshmallow pillows, tiny eatable chocolate birds, everlasting gum, tv-producing chocolates, hot ice cubes and cows giving chocolate-milk are some of the bizarre wonders Mr. Wonka showcases to the winners.

But more than anything else, what turns out to be the most bizarre, is Mr. Wonka’s personality. As it turns out, he is an adult carrying the heart of a boy who was asked to stay away from all things chocolate and candy. The reason? His father was a dentist.

Out of the five winners, Charlie remains the only one who survives till the end of the tour, and inspires Mr. Wonka to reunite with his dentist father.

As the name and the picturesque details suggest, the movie is a sweet treat to watch. A dessert-ful delight to indulge in.

The best part, this chocolate factory won’t give you cavities!

Moving forward, here are thirty chocolatey quotes from the movie. Watch and enjoy!

Thank you & Good day!

Neha😊