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Mr Willy Wonka begins by inventing Wonka-Vite, which makes people younger. But Wonka-Vite is too strong. So some people disappear, because their age becomes Minus! One person actually becomes minus eighty-seven, which means he’s got to wait eighty-seven years before he can come back.
Mr Willy Wonka must invent a new thing...
Explanation:
The lesson "The Invention of Vita-Wonk" deals around a particular incident that happens in the space. The lesson is a part of the book by Roald Dahl titled "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator". The first paragraph serves as an introduction to the story that follows. The lesson deals with how Willy Wonka makes a potion called Vita-Wonka. This paragraph emphasises the need for such a potion to be made. Willy Wonka is a rich man who owns a chocolate factory. A young boy named Charlie inherits the factory by being polite and kind. Willy Wonka takes Charlie, his parents and his four grandparents in a grand elevator, which accidentally reaches the space orbit. They are confronted by dangerous aliens called Knids. They are also faced with the responsibility to save the astronauts who have reached the space.
Astronaut with aliens
Amidst the chaos, Charlie's three grandparents refuse to get out of the bed as they are very old and feeble. Willy Wonka realises that this might cause a commotion as they might be attacked. He decides to take things into his hands by making them move. He did not want them to be in trouble or leave them behind just because they were old. He makes a potion named Wonka-Vite, which would reduce a person's age and make them young. But the intensity of it is too strong and would have side effects if taken in extra dosages.
Unfortunately, Charlie's grandparents consume the potion in excess. One of the grandparents is eighty seven years old and when he takes the extra dosage, he becomes younger and younger until a point occurs where he starts reverse ageing and reaching minus eighty seven. This would mean that, in order to be born again as a baby, he has to cross all the negative ageing and reach one. In short, he has to wait for eighty seven years to be born again. Willy Wonka had to create a remedy for this and hence had to invent an antidote for his own medicine. The entire lesson comprises the story behind this invention of Vita-Wonk.
Sick grandpa
Meaning of difficult words:
| S.No | Words | Meaning |
1 | Elevator | Lift that raises and lowers people from different levels |
2 | Inherit | Receive something as a gift rightfully |
3 | Potion | A liquid with healing properties |
4 | Chaos | Commotion |
5 | Astronauts | A person who is trained to travel in space |
6 | Space orbit | A regular path that one object takes around another one |
7 | Antidote | A remedy to an illness |
8 | Aliens | Beings of another world |
Reference:
National Council of Educational Research and Training (2007). Honeycomb. The Invention of Vita-Wonk- Roald Dahl (pp. 99-106). Published at the Publication Division by the Secretary, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi.
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