The Invention of Vita-Wonk Summary Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 7

Introduction

The story The Invention of Vita-Wonk is an excerpt from Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The story is about the invention of a magical thing that helps to accelerate a person's ageing process. While inventing the potion named Vita-Wonk, the inventor Mr Willy Wonka talks a lot about the stuff with Charlie. Mr Wonka previously invented Wonke-Vite. But this did not serve the purpose. The invention of Vita-Wonk happens in a continuation of the invention of Wonke-Vite.

Summary

Mr Willy Wonka, the owner of the chocolate factory has decided to invent Wonka-Vite. This will make people younger, but it is too strong. After taking this, there is a rapid decrease in age, some people have disappeared because their age has reached in Minus! One person’s age has become minus 87 so he needs to wait for 87 years to be visible to others. Mr Wonka must invent a new thing to reverse these changes.

Ingredients for Vita-Wonk

Inside the chocolate factory Mr Wonka is searching for a new recipe which will make people older. He asked Charlie about the oldest thing in the world Charlie’s reply was a tree. Mr Wonka added that it is the Bristlecone pine trees growing in the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, USA is the tree that lives longer than anything else. Mr Wonka then went into the Great Glass Elevator to travel across the world to collect items from some of the oldest living things.

He collected a pint of sap from a 4000 years Bristlecone pine tree, toe-nail clippings from a 168 years old Russian Farmer, an egg laid by a 200 years old tortoise, the tail of 51 years old horse and so on. In his Inventing Room after working with all these elements for hours, he prepared a cupful of oily black liquid. He gave four drops of it to a 20 years old Oompa-Loompa volunteer. Charlie asked what happened after that. Mr Wonka informed him that the creature after a bit of shivering and wrinkling became a 75 years old and he confirmed the invention of Vita-Wonk to Charlie.

Theme/Message

Mr Willy Wonka, the owner of the chocolate factory, has decided to invent Wonka-Vite. It will make people younger, but it is too strong. In his Inventing Room, after working with all these elements for hours, he prepared a cupful of oily black liquid. It entails the series of events that happened before Mr Wonka could finally invent Vita-Wonk, which can make a person older.

List of Difficult Words With Meaning

Elevator:    Lift that raises and lowers people from different levels

Inherit:     Receive something as a gift rightfully 

Potion:    A liquid with healing properties

Chaos:    Commotion

Astronauts:     A person who is trained to travel in space

Space orbit:     A regular path that one object takes around another one

Antidote :   A remedy to an illness

Aliens:     Beings of another world

Sleeves:     The part of the dress that covers one's arms

Squeeze:     To press firmly

Backfire:     The opposite of the expected result

Recipe :   Instructions to prepare a dish/potion

Promptly:     Very quickly