PUMPA - SMART LEARNING
எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்
Book Free Demo “All over the world, Charlie,” Mr Wonka went on “I tracked down very old and ancient animals and took an important little bit of something from each one of them — a hair or an eyebrow or sometimes it was no more than an ounce or two of the jam scraped from between its toes while it was sleeping. I tracked down THE WHISTLE-PIG, THE BOBOLINK, THE SKROCK, THE POLLYFROG, THE GIANT CURLICUE, THE STINGING SLUG AND THE VENOMOUS SQUERKLE who can spit poison right into your eye from fifty yards away. But there’s no time to tell you about them all now, Charlie. Let me just say quickly that in the end, after lots of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in my Inventing Room, I produced one tiny cupful of oily black liquid and gave four drops of it to a brave twenty-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer to see what happened.”
“What did happen?” Charlie asked.
“It was fantastic!” cried Mr Wonka. “The moment he swallowed it, he began wrinkling and shrivelling up all over and his hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out and, before I knew it, he had suddenly become an old fellow of seventy-five! And thus, my dear Charlie, was Vita-Wonk invented!”
Explanation:
Willy Wonka makes a list of things he needs to make Vita Wonk, But the list was not so simple or easy. He had wanted to take things pertaining to anything that was old. It was difficult to collect these things, but he somehow manages to do so. He recollects his experiences to Charlie, saying that he literally travelled all around the world to gather them. He hunted down to every old animal or person so that he could get at least a small bit of thing from them. He took little things such as a hair or eyebrow from them. He also takes jam from between the toes of certain animals. It would be just an ounce or two that the animal would have had between the foot. He had to take it only when it was sleeping, making the whole process subtle and not get attacked by the animal.
Exotic and old animals
He lists out the names of these venomous animals. He tracked down animals and reptiles like the whistle pig, bobolink, the skrock, the pollyfrog, The giant Curlicue, the stinging slug, the venomous squerkle etc. The names itself indicate that they are highly dangerous as they are venomous, capable of stinging, giant etc. The venomous squerkle can spit poison exactly into a person's eye even if they are fifty yards away. The bobolink, pollyfrog etc., though not dangerous, may be a rare variety. He has less time to explain everything in detail as he has to bring the grandparents alive. But he says that he has already tested the medicine on the Oompa Loompas. The Oompa Loompas are his workers in the factory. They are tiny creatures who are capable of doing anything. He had done a lot of experimenting with the collected things to make the medicine.
He had tested it in the lab thereby bringing in bubbles, smoke etc. After boiling and mixing it in his inventing room, he gets a thick oily cup of black liquid which he gives to one of the volunteers. The Oompa-Loompa, who was brave, took four drops of it. When Charlie asks what the result was, Wonka gladly reports that the result turned out to be fine, as the potion worked. The volunteer started becoming old, with noticeable changes such as falling of hair, teeth etc. He gets all the physical attributes of a seventy-five year old. The Oompa-Loompa was initially \(20\) years old. Finally, Wonka invents an antidote named Vita-Wonk to bring the grandparents back.
Meaning of difficult words:
| S.No | Words | Meaning |
1 | Ancient | Very old and classic |
2 | Venomous | Poisonous |
3 | Sting | Bite or cause pain |
4 | Wrinkling | Getting small |
5 | Shrivel | To contract and lose shape |
6 | Volunteer | A person who offers service for free |
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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