In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, roald dahl created an ideal child-Charlie. Charlie embodies many advantages: modesty, generosity, courtesy, helpfulness, creativity, cheerfulness and gentleness ... which can be seen everywhere in the book. Such a child will surely win and become the new owner of the chocolate factory.

However, all these advantages actually stem from Charlie's patience.

When Charlie asks grandpa to tell a story, he will say, "Grandpa Joe, can you tell me now?" (Page 1 1)

A polite boy is in no hurry. When traveling by boat under the guidance of Mr Wonka, patience can help Charlie resist the temptation of delicious food and shape his perseverance, even though he is starving. In contrast, other spoiled children are even less patient.

For example, Augustus Gloppe, the first greedy child who won the golden ticket, saw the chocolate river. "This thing is great!" "Augustus said, ignoring his mother or Mr. Wonka. "God, I need a bucket to drink it!" (page 87). He bent down to eat eagerly and finally fell into the river. And Verruca, who always wants rain and wind, wants dwarfs when he sees them. "dad! I want an Oberon! I want you to get me an Oberon! I want an Oberon now! I want to take it home! Go ahead, dad! Give me an Omo-Lumba! "(page 86). What she always says is, I want what I want, give it to me.

This book was written in the 1960s, and one of the controversial points in the book is how to treat those naughty children. Obviously, roald dahl is very strict with them, which may be related to his early study experience in private schools. He once had some unpleasant schooling experiences. For details, you can read another of his short stories, The Boy.

We won't discuss this topic for the time being.

The other two children, in fact, are not particularly bad, but one is obsessed with TV and the other is obsessed with chewing gum. They are so obsessed with a leaf that they completely lose the patience to perceive their surroundings.

Mike Stevie likes watching TV. He can't live without TV. When he heard Mr. Wonka say that people might be transported by TV, he couldn't wait to run into the TV. "When he heard Mr. Wonka say,' I'm pretty sure it can ... of course,' he turned around and started running as fast as possible to the place with the huge camera at the other end of the room. (page 153). In fact, if he had listened to the other party's speech, he wouldn't have ended up like this. As a result, he was sent to the TV, and when he came out, he could only stand in the palm of his mother's hand, and he had to be tossed and tossed again.

Violette didn't listen to Mr Wonka's suggestion, and thought that chewing gum had not been developed successfully. "Oh ... suddenly, before Mr. Wonka could stop her, she suddenly reached out a fat hand, grabbed a piece of chewing gum from a small drawer and stuffed it into her mouth (page 1 12). So she turned into a giant blueberry and was transported to take out blueberry juice.

And our little hero Charlie always listens patiently and observes carefully when he visits the chocolate factory. Facing the center of the chocolate factory, the magical chocolate room contains chocolate waterfall, chocolate river, transparent glass tube for conveying chocolate stock solution and dwarfs. Verruca screamed to get one back. Augustus sneaked to the river to eat chocolate, which caused a chaos. Finally, it was piped to the fudge room. Charlie heard the dwarf singing. When visiting the Chocolate River by boat, Mike tried his best to lick the boat with his tongue. Veruca certainly wants such a boat and such a river. Charlie held grandpa's hand tightly, and he was immersed in this novel world. "Is he in a whirlwind? Excited. So far, everything he has seen-the great chocolate river, waterfalls, huge straws, mint meadows, Oberland people, beautiful pink boats and, most importantly, Mr. willy wonka himself-is so shocking that he began to wonder if there would be more amazing things left. Where are they now? What are they going to see? What will happen in the next room? " (99 pages).

We know little about cultivating patience, but it is actually very important. Dr Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist, said to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, "You have a Ferrari in your head and I am good at braking. I want to help you learn to brake. " (Martin seligman, author of Sustained Happiness, p. 1 17). This can be regarded as a scientific practice to cultivate patience.