Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by

Roald Dahl

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Augustus Gloop Character Analysis

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:
Vice and Virtue Theme Icon
).
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.

Related Characters: Augustus Gloop, Mr. Bucket
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 21
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 54
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 66
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, The Oompa-Loompas, Augustus Gloop, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mrs. Gloop
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:
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!”

Related Characters: Mr. Gloop (speaker), Mrs. Gloop (speaker), Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Mr. Teavee, Mrs. Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 73
Explanation and Analysis:
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?

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, The Oompa-Loompas, Augustus Gloop
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 83
Explanation and Analysis:
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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:
Vice and Virtue Theme Icon
).
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.

Related Characters: Augustus Gloop, Mr. Bucket
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 21
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 54
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 66
Explanation and Analysis:
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.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, The Oompa-Loompas, Augustus Gloop, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mrs. Gloop
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:
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!”

Related Characters: Mr. Gloop (speaker), Mrs. Gloop (speaker), Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Mr. Teavee, Mrs. Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 73
Explanation and Analysis:
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?

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, The Oompa-Loompas, Augustus Gloop
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 83
Explanation and Analysis: