Assignment task:
Review Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Use above and analyze the character of Willy Wonka. Do you interpret him primarily as a corrupter of youth, a teacher, a satirist, an artist, a criminal, a capitalist, a conservative, a revolutionary? According to Dahl, what are the social forces that corrupt the youth, and how does Wonka, in your view, relate to them?
- based on this question provide an introduction
- provide a thesis that answers this question
- provide an analysis of the author's language, themes and symbols, or the narrative of the primary text; what connections are made between stylistic techniques and literary devices and problems of representation in the text; interpretation is clearly and explicitly grounded in the author's language; utilize quotations
- provide body paragraphs answering this question and using evidence from the above