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Augustus Gloop is the first child to find a Golden Ticket; he’s Mr. Gloop and Mrs. Gloop’s son. He’s extremely overweight and very greedy; Mrs. Gloop insists to reporters that it’s unsurprising that Augustus found a Golden Ticket, since he eats chocolate bars all the time. As he waits outside the Wonka factory with his parents to start the tour, Augustus attempts to clamber over the factory fence and must be restrained by his parents. He doesn’t make it very far into the tour before tragedy strikes. While Mr. Wonka is lecturing the tour attendees about the Oompa-Loompas, Augustus sneaks down to the chocolate river and begins to gorge himself on the chocolate, even though he has a cold and has been told not to touch the chocolate. Nobody is willing to help him when he then falls into the chocolate river. He ultimately gets sucked up a massive glass pipe—where he briefly gets stuck because his body is so large—and is presumably rescued in the factory’s Fudge Room. After he disappears, the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about how horrible it is to be as greedy as Augustus. They suggest that they’re going to make him better by turning him into a lovely piece of fudge. In reality, Augustus leaves the factory at the end of the day not as a piece of fudge, but as a thin boy.
Augustus Gloop Quotes in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quotes below are all either spoken by Augustus Gloop or refer to Augustus Gloop. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6 Quotes
The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world.
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Chapter 13 Quotes
The tall bony old figure of Grandpa Joe could be seen standing quietly among them, and beside him, holding tightly on to his hand, was little Charlie Bucket himself.
All the children, except Charlie, had both their mothers and fathers with them, and it was a good thing that they had, otherwise the whole party might have gotten out of hand. They were so eager to get going that their parents were having to hold them back by force to prevent them from climbing over the gates.
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Chapter 15 Quotes
“Don’t you think they look pretty? I told you I hated ugliness! And of course they are all eatable! All made of something different and delicious! And do you like my meadows? Do you like my grass and my buttercups? The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I’ve just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It’s delectable!”
Automatically, everybody bent down and picked one blade of grass—everybody, that is, except Augustus Gloop, who took a big handful.
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Chapter 16 Quotes
Augustus Gloop, as you might have guessed, had quietly sneaked down to the edge of the river, and he was now kneeling on the riverbank, scooping hot melted chocolate into his mouth as fast as he could.
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Chapter 17 Quotes
“Save him!” screamed Mrs. Gloop, going white in the face, and waving her umbrella about. “He’ll drown! He can’t swim a yard! Save him! Save him!”
“Good heavens, woman,” said Mr. Gloop, “I’m not diving in there! I’ve got my best suit on!”
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Chapter 18 Quotes
Charlie was holding tightly onto his grandfather’s bony old hand. He was in a whirl of excitement. Everything that he had seen so far—the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself—had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there were could possibly be any more astonishments left. Where were they going now? What were they going to see? And what in the world was going to happen in the next room?
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Augustus Gloop Character Timeline in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The timeline below shows where the character Augustus Gloop appears in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
A boy named Augustus Gloop finds the first Golden Ticket the very next day. The paper prints a huge...
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After Mr. Bucket reads the interview out loud, Grandma Josephine and Georgina scoff that Augustus and Mrs. Gloop are “revolting” and “repulsive.” Grandpa George wonders who will get the remaining...
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Grandma Josephine insists that Veruca is even worse than Augustus, and Grandma Georgina suggests that Veruca could benefit from being spanked. To Grandpa Joe, Charlie...
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Chapter 13
...fence as their fathers scold them to be patient. People in the crowd point out Augustus, Violet (still chewing her piece of gum), Mike Teavee, and Veruca Salt. They discuss how...
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Chapter 14
Augustus steps up to introduce himself first. Mr. Wonka pumps Augustus’s hand up and down, greets...
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...a very hot climate and would die in the cold weather they’re currently having. When Augustus asks about the workers, Mr. Wonka tells him to be patient. Once they’re all inside,...
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Chapter 15
...all the grass, trees, and flowers are edible. Everyone picks a blade of grass (except Augustus, who picks a handful). Charlie whispers to Grandpa Joe that it’s wonderful, and Grandpa Joe...
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Chapter 16
...he’ll get her one by the end of the day. Then, Mrs. Gloop shouts for Augustus to stop—unsurprisingly, he’s kneeling at the riverbank, scooping chocolate into his mouth.
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Chapter 17
Mr. Wonka cries that Augustus can’t touch the chocolate—it can’t be contaminated by human hands. Mrs. Gloop calls for Augustus...
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Suddenly, Augustus falls into the chocolate river with a shriek and disappears. Mrs. Gloop screams for someone...
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The pressure builds behind Augustus until finally, it’s too much. The pressure of the chocolate dislodges Augustus, and he shoots...
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Mrs. Gloop tells Mr. Wonka to take her to Augustus straight away. Mr. Wonka snaps his fingers three times, and an Oompa-Loompa appears beside him....
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Five Oompa-Loompas on the other side of the river start to beat drums and chant “Augustus Gloop!” They sing a song about Augustus, a “great big greedy nincompoop.” They sing that...
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The Oompa-Loompas warn the other children that Augustus will be fine, though he’ll be changed by the time he’s done going through the...
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Chapter 18
...Wonka asks the remaining children and their parents to follow him and not worry about Augustus. Out of the mist coming from the river, a pink boat appears. It looks like...
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Chapter 29
...the huge trucks that will follow each child home, full of candy. He points out Augustus Gloop—who is now “thin as a straw.” Violet is back to her normal size, but...
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