The following criticism on Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY came from the following website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory#Criticisms
Although the book has always been popular, over the years a number of prominent individuals have spoken critically of the novel. Children's novelist and literary historian John Rowe Townsend has described the book as "fantasy of an almost literally nauseating kind" and accusing it of "astonishing insensitivity" regarding the original portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas as black pygmies[1] , although Dahl did revise this later. Another novelist, Eleanor Cameron, compared the book to the candy that forms its subject matter, commenting that it is "delectable and soothing while we are undergoing the brief sensory pleasure it affords but leaves us poorly nourished with our taste dulled for better fare".[2] Ursula Le Guin voiced her support for this assessment in a letter to Cameron.[3] Defenders of the book have pointed out that it was unusual for its time in being quite dark for a children's book, with the "antagonists" not being adults or monsters (as is the case even for most of Dahl's books) but the naughty children.
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Quoting a criticism from somebody else in ur blog! that's interesting! But i want 2 know ur own attitude toward Charlie...
Does it mean that u agree?
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