Roald Dahl Research Paper

Roald Dahl’s rebellious childhood consisted of a few traumatic events that most children never have to go through. He was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff South Wales. Although he was born in the UK, both of Dahl’s parents were Norwegian. They seemed to be living a fairly normal life until Dahl reached the age of 4. This year marked one of the most traumatic events in Roald Dahl’s life, his father’s death. Roald's father, Harald, dies of pneumonia at the age of 57. Roald describes his death in Boy, saying: "sudden death left him literally speechless for days afterwards. He was so overwhelmed with grief that when he himself went down with pneumonia a month or so afterwards, he did not much care whether he lived or died." After struggling through this loss at such a young age, he began to spend his summers in Oslo with his grandparents. He used his grandparents’ house

His experiences as a taste-tester gave him the imagination to wonder what all goes into the chocolate making cycle. Those imaginative ideas played a role in sculpting what the factory looked like and all the extravagant machines, colors, and workers. The secrecy, spies and detectives he experienced in his past showed strongly in the exclusiveness of the factory in the story. The fact that Willy Wonka was written to seem very unusual; this is because Dahl knew how secretive chocolate factories were. Last but not least, the chocolate obsession he had in real life showed prominently in the “Chocolate Room” of the factory. Everything in that room was chocolaty and edible. Writing the descriptions of the Chocolate Room, Dahl used all of his personal feelings about how wonderful chocolate is. With the chocolate wrapper collection on his desk and all of these inspirations Dahl was able to write the storyline of this book rather