Log 2

    

    Hi! It's Serena.👋🏻

    This is the first book I have read in this class, it’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I see a few points in the book, and it intrigues me to think deeply and go search the theory behind characters’ action in the story.

    The main character, Charlie Bucket, he lived in a family of 7, Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, Mr. Bucket and Mrs. Bucket. There are seven members in this family, however, there is only one person, Mr. Bucket makes money to provide and support this whole family. Although the life isn’t easy for them, they still have happiness consists in contentment. For instance, although each of them only has a little portion of food because of less money, they will still leave it to the youngest and growing boy Charlie. In my opinion, the family may have less wealth or material but they have more love, not selfish and never stingy with offering. That’s the most valuable part in relationship, it’s that how much you can sacrifice yourself to dedicate.

    The most unselfish ones in our life mostly are our parents, it occurred to me how important and marvelous our parents are.

    Secondly, Charlie is a fan of chocolate, but he can’t afford it. Not because the chocolate is too expensive, it’s his family doesn’t even have enough money for living. The only time in a year he could have the chocolate bar is on his birthday. Charlie treasures every bite of it with carefully munching. Therefore, When the chocolate bar producer, Willy Wonka, announced that only five admission tickets hidden inside the chocolate bar wrapper, and the five founders can be given a tour in the chocolate factory by the most respected and confection genius maker Mr.Wonka. Everybody is frantically going mad with finding the five tickets, including Charlie and Grandpa Joy.

    Among the five kids, there is a girl, Veruca, who is spoiled by her parents, the parents in order to make their baby daughter happy, the parents who own a peanut manufacturing factory order workers to rip off hundreds of thousands of chocolate bars’ wrappers to find the admission ticket. Technically, I think her parent is the one found the ticket. When Grandpa Joy heard the news, he said spoiled kids can be good for nothing. However, to my way of thinking, though Joy’s financial resources compare to Veruca’s is a big gap. Still, facing Mr. Bucket's unemployment when the whole family’s going to starve, Joy gave his secret hoard to his grandson to buy a chocolate bar instead of providing it to support the family, in my perspective, not to mention their different financial conditions. Obviously, they were doing the same thing from the thought of making kids happy, their heart will always psychologically towards their children. Therefore, I think it is the case of the pot calling the kettle black. 

    Thirdly, why Charlie had the money to buy the chocolate bar inside with admission ticket, it was that he picked a money that he accidentally found on the road, and he used it to buy a chocolate bar, because he was so starving that he has not filled his stomach for several days. Nevertheless, get to the bottom of this case, the money is not belong to him. It violated the sense of morality if he kept it for himself. It makes me to wonder if the worst situation happened that people can’t fill stomach, according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, people can’t meet the basic needs for living, then what would they do to strive for living, afterwards, it leads to several crime activities, like robbery, stealing, transportation of drugs. For example, many countries in Africa, one of the highest crime rate states, or countries with frequent wars which are using most of their money to enhance military resources and weapons, by contrast, people are suffering and public grievances rising around. As a consequence, I believe a steady nation is based on people with psychologically safe and physically health.

    In conclusion, reading this book makes me realize that happiness could be in many ways that aren’t related to money, like Charlie’s circumstances, the happiness could be a chocolate bar and the family supporting each other. Sometimes, something could not be bought, money can not do everything. Besides, this story gets me the inspiration that “the rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone.”  No one is kept out of the affair in the country. Everyone should be responsible not only for our business but also for our country.