Chapter 4: Hot Chocolate
When the door opened, the children looked around in amazement. They had never seen anything like it. It was truly a dream come true. There was candy and chocolate everywhere just waiting for anyone to eat it.
"Now children, don't lose your heads. Don't get overexcited. Just stay very….very….calm." said Wonka. He brought them to the center of the room. As they settled there, Wonka saw the main pipes that transferred the chocolate all over the factory. "Look over at those pipes." He pointed over at them. "Those pipes are very important. They suck up all the chocolate and transfer them all over the factory. Also take a look at that waterfall. The waterfall is most important. The waterfall blends all the ingredients together. It mixes it up, churns it out and makes it light and frothy. As a matter of fact, no other factory in the U.S mixes by waterfall and you can take that to the bank."
The children looked at what Willy Wonka just talked about. The waterfall was beautiful. It flowed like no other. Even though it was a waterfall, it carried boiling, hot chocolate.
"Meanwhile, have a glade!" he said smiling.
"You can eat the grass?" asked Charlie looking at Willy Wonka as if he was joking.
"Of course you can! Everything in here is eatable, even I'm eatable but that is called cannibalism and is considered taboo in most societies." he said with a serious look.
The children looked at Wonka like he was crazy for saying that he was eatable. Why would anybody think about eating him? That's disgusting and totally inhumane.
"Have fun!" said Wonka dismissing them.
"Oh good because I'm starving!" said Augustus making the first run for candy.
"I'll beat you to it!" challenged Veruca racing him.
The children all scattered around, finding and eating whatever they could get their hands on.
Charlie came across a candy bush. He reached out to grab a piece of candy but another hand grabbed it.
It was Violet. She took her gum out her mouth and stuck it behind her ear.
"I was about to grab that one." said Charlie looking at her.
"Too bad! I grabbed it first, loser! I'm the world's, greatest gum chewer and I'm a winner! I've been chewing this gum three months solid! That's a record!" Violet then put the candy in her mouth and walked away.
Charlie sighed and just grabbed another piece. After he ate the candy, he went his own direction and came across Mike.
Mike was having fun his way by stomping on a giant jaw breaker.
"Um what are you doing?" asked Charlie.
Mike stopped and sighed. "What do you think I'm doing? I'm having fun!" He then continued stomping.
"I don't think he meant that kind of fun." said Charlie looking directly at Mike.
Mike got irritated and gave Charlie a mean look. "You know what! Buzz off! You're in my way loser!" He then shoved Charlie out of his way.
Charlie was shocked that Mike would do such a thing. He never suspected that any of the children would go as far as put their hands on him.
Mike was just as lucky of a person to be in Willy Wonka's factory just as Charlie. Why ruin his chances of winning by fighting? Mike could have just went the other way.
But Charlie decided to be the bigger person and just let it go.
Augustus was standing on his knees by the chocolate lake that was boiling hot. He wanted to get a good look at the chocolate for himself. "It's beautiful."
Willy Wonka saw Augustus by the lake. "Hey uh boy! Don't get too close to the chocolate! It's very hot!" He warned raising a finger.
All the children stopped what they were doing and watched Augustus.
But Augustus was a big, greedy boy who wanted to eat anything he could possibly get his hands on in that factory. After staring at the chocolate for so long, he eventually become delirious and fell in.
The children all gasped in shock.
"Mr. Wonka! He fell into the hot chocolate!" yelled Vercua pointing at Augustus.
"Oh dear!" said Wonka with a worried look.
"Aaaaaah! Heeeeeelp! It's too hot! I'm burning! Please get me out! Aaaaaah!" screamed Augustus struggling in the hot chocolate.
"What do we do Mr. Wonka?" asked Violet looking at Willy Wonka.
"Well…uh…let him die!" said Wonka with a straight face.
"What!" exclaimed Mike shocked that he would say such a thing.
"You can't be serious Mr. Wonka! Don't you care about people dying, especially in your factory?" asked Charlie feeling confused about Wonka.
"Well kids, you see when children disobey me, they have to pay the consequences." said Wonka.
"Even if it means death?" asked Mike looking surprised.
"Even if it means death." concluded Wonka as if the case was settled.
The children watched in horror as Augustus struggled and screamed as he burned to death. His skin was starting to peel off and was bleeding.
"His skin's peeling off and he's bleeding!" said Charlie looking scared.
"Aren't you going to do something about it?" asked Mike looking upset.
"Of course not!" said Wonka giving him that look to leave him alone.
"Mr. Wonka how could you! At first you were so kind and friendly but now you act like you could care less about a person's life!" asserted Veruca looking right at him.
After hearing what Veruca said to him, it made Wonka very upset. He made a serious look at her and said, "For your information little girl, I…." he was interrupted.
"Look! He's dead!" yelled Violet pointing at Augustus' corpse.
Everyone looked and saw that Augustus had stopped struggling and died. His body was all charred up and floating in the lake. They all gasped in shock.
"I can't believe it! I really thought you were a very, kind-hearted man but you're a fake!" confessed Charlie looking Willy Wonka straight in the eye.
The other children agreed and looked at Willy Wonka with hatred.
"Children! Children! Don't be so harsh!" He then saw his oompa loompas. " Hey look! The oompa loompas!" he pointed at them.
"Oompa-loompas? Who are they?" asked Violet chewing fiercely.
"Why they're my workers!" said Wonka smiling.
The children didn't seem to care since he let Augustus die.
"Who cares about your workers! You just let someone die! Your factory should be closed down forever and you should be in jail for life!" said Veruca making a mean face.
"Yeah! I always wondered why he was so nice." said Violet popping her gum and making a mean face as well.
"Don't worry my dear children! The oompa loompas will take good care of his body!" said Willy Wonka trying to cheer them up.
"Yeah we bet." said Mike nonchalantly.
"Moving on now!" said Wonka continuing his tour.