This passage is taken from a famous children’s book by Ronald Dahl called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The main character, Charlie Bucket is a small boy who belongs to a very poor family. They can only afford ‘bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper’.
Only once a year, on his birthday, Charlie gets to taste a bit of chocolate. The whole family saved up their money for that special occasion, and when the great day arrived, Charlie was always presented with one small chocolate bar to eat all by himself. And each time he receive it, on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would place it carefully in a small wooden bow that he owned, and treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold; and for the next few days, he would allow himself only to look at it, but never to touch it. Than at least, when he could stand it longer he would peel back a tiny bit of the paper wrapping at one corner to expose a tiny bit of chocolate, and then he would take a tiny nibble, just enough to allow the lovely sweet taste to spread out slowly over his tongue. The next day, he would take another tiny nibble, and so on, and so on. And in this way, Charlie would make his sixpenny bar of birthday chocolate last him for more than a month.
