Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 13
Chapter 13: The Big Day Arrives
There is a crowd of people in front of Wonka's chocolate factory on February 1. The five ticket holders and their adults are shielded by the police.
Everyone who isn't Charlie has both of their parents with them. Charlie has Grandpa Joe, the lazy old man who isn't at all interested in helping out his family until free chocolate is put on the table.
The other children are being children and trying to climb over the gates.
Charlie hears people in the crowd discussing the children. It's not nice. Augustus is fat, Veruca is spoiled, Charlie is poor and starving and somehow that is a personality flaw, Violet is gross with her three month old gum.
And then.
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Very slowly, with a loud creaking of rusty hinges, the great iron gates of the factory began to swing open.
The crowd became suddenly silent. The children stopped jumping about. All eyes were fixed upon the gates.
"There he is!" somebody shouted. "That's him!"
And so it was!
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