Title of the book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin Books
A chocolate factory was a very simple factory with machines and workers there. Mr. Willy Wonka’s factory was different from the others because he used unusual ways to make chocolate and candies. He used unusual workers too, the Oompalompas. In addition, he made unusual candies such as an ice cream that would never melt, even in the hottest sun and chewing gums that never lost taste. It was really amazing!
My favourite character is Mr Willy Wonka because he was a genius of making candies. He used a chocolate waterfall to mix the ingredients into the best way to make chocolate bars. He made tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry pie into a gum! People did not have to cook any more, just had a gum! He got many other useful invents to make his impossible ideas become true! The businessmen around the world only wanted to earn money through selling food. They should learn from Mr. Willy Wonka. It was because he opened his factory for the children in which showed he was glad to share his work. That was why I loved him.
Although Mr. Willy Wonka wished to share his work with the others, some people might just want to get the secret prize. They didn’t care about what Mr. Willy Wonka did, except the prize. Violet always showed that she was the winner and always thought about winning the secret prize. Her parents taught her badly because they taught her to win the secret prize by all means. Some people might buy a lot of chocolate to get the golden ticket, like Veruca. Veruca’s parents spoiled her. They bought everything that she wanted, even if it cost a lot. She got two dogs, four cats, six bunny rabbits, to parakeets, three canaries, a green parrot, a turtle and a hamster, but she still wanted a trained squirrel from the factory. She was never contented. Her parents bought over thousands of chocolate to find the golden ticket. It was a waste of chocolate. I hated Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt most. They were the most terrible kid I’ve ever seen in books. Luckily, they learned a good lesson in the factory. In the fairy tales, bad guys usually won’t have good endings. However, this book is different. In the story, Violet became a blueberry and Veruca fell into an incinerator eventually.
Augustus Gloop was very greedy, especially in chocolate. His life was only eating and eating. Although he was in a dangerous situation, he was still eating. That was why he fell into the chocolate river in the factory. Cupidity caused bad results. Mike Teevee always believed he was right and he didn’t listen to the others’ opinions. He was stubborn. It was hard to bear with him. Most of the children were stubborn like him. They always thought what they did was correct. It might cause them lose, just like Mike Teevee. He became tiny at the end. Although he was brave, he didn’t think of the result. Therefore, he failed to win the prize.
Charlie Bucket was the best kid of all. Although Charlie’s family was very poor and they couldn’t afford too many bars of chocolate, he still got a golden ticket by luck. In the whole adventure, he just kept silent and listening to the others. He didn’t do badly like the other children. This was the reason why he was the only one that could stay until the end. At last, he won the factory because he was the best of all. He didn’t think of getting a prize, even a bar of chocolate. He just enjoyed the visit and nothing else. Children should be pure like him. They shouldn’t be as bad as the other four characters.
My favourite thing in the factory is the glass lift. It could travel to any room by going up to down or left to right, even out of the factory! It was amazing. If there was a real lift like it, it would be the greatest invention of the century! I’m sure that everyone would like to have one.
Greedy thought of people is unlimited. People want anything that is valuable and useful so they did anything to look for them. Like the four children’s parents, they did many things to take a golden ticket for their children because they all wanted to get the prize. However, Charlie was different from them because his family was poor. He didn’t get much toys so he didn’t get much cupidity when compared to the others. He went to the factory for a visit, not for the prize. We should learn from Charlie because he knew what was contect. Money could buy many things, but it couldn’t buy true happiness. Only the children like Charlie could have the true happiness. The four children were born in a rich family but they couldn’t learn what true happiness was. They didn’t win anything and left the factory sadly as a result. They just learnt a precious lesson there. I hope everyone who reads this book would know the meaning of the story.

杨忠民：法官缘何如此恐怖?———读《恐怖的法官——纳粹时期的司法》　
1947年，在二战后纽伦堡的废墟上，由美国独家主持的审判纳粹时期德国司法官员的法庭开庭。当诸多第三帝国的司法官员站立在被告席上时，一个问题定然困扰着人们：法官缘何如此恐怖？
曾经身披法袍，手握法槌，头顶法学专家、学者等高贵头衔，面相庄严的前法官们，大约谁也不曾高举火炬行进在“帝国水晶之夜”，亲手残杀犹太人，砸碎犹太商店的玻璃橱窗，焚烧犹太教堂和“邪恶思想”的书籍；也未必亲自启动“洗浴室”的毒气装置毒杀妇孺，或者扣动扳机，射杀手无寸铁的平民；更未必身着军装，脚登马靴，手执佩剑，践踏被侵略的国土——即使成了被告，那一脸的神圣和不屑，只会让人生出对司法的敬畏，却实在难以联想到“恐怖”这个可怕的词语。然而，在德国法学家英戈·穆勒的《恐怖的法官——纳粹时期的司法》中〔1〕，却分明记载下如许事实：正是他们，在经过严谨、缜密且富于逻辑性的“法理论证”之后，催生了臭名昭著的“纽伦堡法”，使反犹排犹的条顿剑得以从司法的剑鞘中抽出；也正是他们，端坐在国民法院、特别法院、党卫军警察法庭、军事法庭之上，挥动法槌，将成千上万“玷污种族”的犹太人和“社会蠹虫”、“社会渣滓”驱赶进集中营，接受死亡的“洗礼”；同样是他们，为了保证“德国种族的完美性”，作出惨无人道的判决，对智能低下者强制性绝育，令残疾人、精神病患者在“快乐”中死亡；还是他们，把无数反战的平民甚至德国军人送到绞刑架下，以鲜血润滑着第三帝国的战争机器……是的，从这些司法官员白皙的手上，的确看不到一丝血迹，但谁又能说，在被毁灭的五百多万犹太人的尸骸旁，在被虐杀的二十万“不值得活的生命”的坟冢前，乃至在被整个战争屠戮的五千五百万生灵的周围，除了游荡着希特勒死神般的身影外，就没有抖动着这些司法官员们恐怖的黑袍？！本应由希特勒占据的被告位置，如今由他们来填补，的确是合乎逻辑的，可人们依然要追问：法官缘何如此恐怖？