Claim: Unlike the other children on the tour, Charlie wasn't spoiled
growing up.
"There is something about very cold weather that gives
one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves
beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple
pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and
because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize,
we usually get what we want or near enough. But
Charlie Bucket never got what he wanted because the
family couldn't afford it, and as the cold weather went
on and on, he became ravenously and desperately
hungry. Both bars of chocolate, the birthday one and
the one Grandpa Joe had bought, had long since been
nibbled away, and all he got now were those thin,
cabbagy meals three times a day." (Dahl 37)
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