Charlie Bucket In Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory

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During the movie, Charlie Bucket is a very humble character and almost always abides the rules he is to follow. He never complains, meek, courageous, and generous despite being deprived of adequate food and clothing, privacy, and a bed. Charlie receives everything by chance and does not like to use his family as a source of money; the chocolate bar that gave him the golden ticket was bought by finding money in a gutter. He is a very virtuous character and the transitive effect of being such a person is receiving the very last golden ticket. This ticket allows him to go to the Chocolate factory and later become the heir to the ownership at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. He makes a better life for himself, as well as his family members and …show more content…

His vice is that he and his grandfather drank a fizzy lifting drink which almost killed them both and cost him the grand prize of a lifetime supply of chocolate. The transitive effect of his actions threatened the lifetime supply of chocolate and trust from Willy Wonka. Charlie never concerned about the chocolate, instead his concern was to have fun and share the experience with Grandpa Joe. This leads to the end of the story where Grandpa Joe states that he and Charlie are going to sell the everlasting gobstopper to other candy-makers, but Charlie said no. The intransitive effect of his actions of stealing the fizzy drink could have gotten him kicked out and the new owner could have been impatient Mike and put his own needs before others. This would have deeply hurt Mr. Willy Wonka and his company which he had built from the ground up. Charlie steps in from Grandpa Joe calling Mr. Wonka names and gives the gobstopper back to him. In Wonka’s eyes, this is the ultimate moral act that Charlie needed to do to become the heir to the factory. This shows that by being humble to previous actions you have done, you can be forgiven the vices that all humans