Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Mikey Welsh is one of the main characters in The Goonies, he could be considered the connecting link between the rag tag group of kids who call themselves the goonies. Mikey has a jovial and childlike personality in the opening scenes of the film which he expresses in many ways. While exploring the attic of Mikey’s home the goonies run across a treasure map which explains the legend of the infamous one eyed Willie and his lost treasure. Mikey full heartedly believes the treasure map and the stories his father used to tell him about one eyed Willie, while his older brother and friends remain skeptical. This blind childlike faith mixed with the dreams of adventure capture the jovial attitude Mikey displays.

Mike is diagnosed from a young age with a terminal illness called SMA. SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) is a disease that robs people of physical strength by affecting the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, taking away the ability to walk, eat, or breathe. Mike is not a hero, unlike Don Eber, because he never saved or showed any true heroism. Instead he was constantly being helped by his mother who, if looking at definitions, is more of a hero than he is. Mike constantly loathes the fact that he is so dependent on his mother so much, which is the opposite of how a hero should be. A hero should be able to depend on others where in the case of Mike he tries to do the opposite and isolates himself from all who try to help him including his

In the story “1408” the reader is not shown or told about much of Mike’s background, his daughter and her death, or his ex-wife. In the movie, though you get the background of

The recent movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was an immediate box office success. Johnny Depp played a wonderful part as Willy Wonka in this movie. The book, originally published in 1964, was first made into a movie in 1971. In this movie, Gene Wilder played a remarkable role of Willy Wonka as well. Despite the many differences in the actors, both had huge success playing the role of the wacky, chocolate loving Mr. Wonka.

Willy Loman is a senile salesman who lives a dull life with a depleting career. He has an estranged relationship with his family and believes in the American Dream of effortless success and affluence, but in no way accomplishes it. Feeling like the aim of life is to be favored by others and gaining a materialistic fortune, Willy lives in a world of delusion where

(Scanlon, x:xx) Mike is small, but knows that it will be tough. Mike Wazowski is a dreamer and a hard worker, his perseverance always pays off, and in this case, gets him a spot in an impressive top University. Another great life lesson in Monsters University is to be a friend.

Willy aspires to be like Ben and Ben is really just an embodiment of the idea of hard working, and successful and how WIlly uses him as a model to try to achieve the same level of salesmanship.

The fantasy created within mike and jerrys film reconstructs the idea of not copying the norm and creating their own entertainment. When the film is finished and the community comes together to watch their creation it is evident that it's not about the money made to save the thrift store it's about the people of the community creating their own happiness and entertainment through the fantasy of Fatts. It takes the idea that Hollywood film is all about the money and business and says, "no that's not right, it's about the

It shows how a whole community revolved itself around chocolate and candy factory. Back in the days where people worked in Willy Wonka’s factory, everything was wonderful, jolly and colorful. People had jobs because of his candy. However that all changed when Willy Wonka closed his factory, every scene after that in the village where the factory was located it was snowing and very dark. People were dressed in darker clothes, the streets were empty and gloomy. This shows the importance food can have on a town. Chocolate was also important to family life as shown in Charlie’s family. Once Charlie ran home with the golden ticket he refused to go to the factory because some people were willing to pay a lot of money for it and he knew his family really needed the money. However, they convinced him to go to the factory with his grandpa Joe, who used to work for Wonka and always tells Charlie of his happy days working at the factory decades ago. People all over the world loved Willy Wonka’s Chocolate bars. They made the chocolate seem so good, that it made me want to have a bar myself. Although in the film you do not really see much people eating Willy Wonka’s candy besides the fat kid. I believe the main character Charlie, only eats about 2 bars the whole movie. In one scene Wonka wanted Charlie to try some of his teleported Wonka bar and Charlie only takes a little tiny bite of it, which surprised me. Due to the fact that

As a father, Willy is raising his sons based solely on his own thoughts and beliefs. These are all original as he had no father to guide him when he was growing up. The only basis he has as to how he can become successful is his brother Ben who left for Alaska and managed to strike gold. Willy is open about his regrets in not following his brother to Alaska where he found success. Since his brother did not need an education to be “successful” Willy does not believe he, nor do his sons need one. His sons grow up being praised by their father for things like their stature and success with girls. Willy even references Greek mythology when referring to his sons, “That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises” (Act 1).

Oompa Loompas. A mystical chocolate factory. A bizarre, yet lovable chocolate tycoon. These are only a few elements that readers of the literary brilliance known as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have come to love and cherish. Written by Roald Dahl and published in 1964, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory chronicles the adventure of five atypical children, their adult supervisors and an eccentric chocolatier. What seems as a once in a lifetime, blissful journey for these fortunate children turns out to be a hellish, last man standing bout in which the victor inherits a multi-million dollar operation. But why should this novel deserve literary merit in classes across

In the story “Here’s Herbie” , Mike always wanted to look out the front window of the train but was scared of what others would think of him. He didn’t want to look like a little kid. “When I was fifteen, I didn’t want to seem like I was six.” (156) “I wanted to look out the front of the train but I never would, so a terrible tug of war took place in my mind.” (156). It wasn’t until one day, he meet a kid on the train who didn’t care what other thought of him. His name being Herbie. He walked right onto the train, without hesitation, pulled out a steering wheel and stuck it to that front window. He was not “driving” the train. At first being embarrassed for Herbie, he soon realized that they weren’t that much different. They both had their problems. On the train ride home, he walked into the first car again. “My life is a total cesspool anyhow, and here I am-- life is passing me by, there are millions of things I want to do, and I never do them. I’m just gonna do it.” (159) So what he did is, he had his defining moment and he went to that front window and looked out of it. Something he has been wanting to do forever

Willy thinks, as most children do, that he is more important than he actually is.  At various times throughout the story, he brags about himself, calling himself a great salesman.  He says that he is known everywhere. In daydreaming of

The play begins with Willy as the antagonist, fighting with his wife Linda and a generally mean person. He insults his sons and scolds Linda for buying the wrong cheese. Willy shows his biggest personality flaws early on in the story; contradicting his own thoughts, being verbally abusive, and showing his over developed sense of pride. Willy loses

Tim Burton uses the flashback to show or reveal characters’ thoughts or past. In the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka has frequent flashbacks to when he was a child. All of his flashbacks involved memories of candy one way or another, and they were sparked by either Charlie Bucket or a question the Golden Ticket winners asked the candy maker. Wonka has a flashback to when he was a little boy trick or treating on Halloween. The flashback also shows how his father was a dentist that hated candy and only let Willy go trick-or-treating so his father could see what kinds of candy are rotting childrens’ teeth each year. While Wonka was allowed to trick-or-treat, his father always got rid of it by throwing it into a fire. Other flashbacks showed how Willy’s love for chocolate started, by showing how he ate pieces of candy and chocolate secretly at