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

The Invention of Vita-Wonk Summary

Mr. Wonka tries to explain to Charlie how he created Vita-Wonk at the beginning of the tale. He said he had rolled up his sleeves and started working. At that point, he realized he had to start from scratch. He pinched his mind in order to come up with a fresh dish. He said that he wants to artificially age humans to an extremely advanced age. He was searching for something with the greatest longevity. When he reached that moment, he sobbed with joy as thoughts started to pour into his head. This required him to look for anything on this planet that was the oldest living creature. 

He then revealed to Charlie that he had pondered what was the oldest living organism in the planet and what had survived the longest of all time. A tree is one of those things, Charlie said in response. He told Charlie he was right, and then they started talking about the many kinds of trees. He informed Charlie that the proper sort of tree was neither a Douglas fir, an oak tree, or a cedar tree. The Bristlecone Pine tree, which thrived on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, United States, was the necessary variety. He asserted that it was a proven fact that these trees were older than 4,000 years old. 

He stated that if the youngster didn't trust him, he could even consult a dendrochronologist. Then, he hopped into the Great Glass Elevator and set off on a mission to gather all the antiques in the globe. He collected sap from the pine tree that was 4000 years old, the toenail clippings from a 168-year-old Russian farmer, an egg laid by a 200 years old tortoise belonging to the king of Tonga, a tail of a 51 year old horse from Arabia, whiskers of 36 year old cat, an old flee that had lived for 36 years, tail of a 207 year old Rat, black teeth of 97 year old grimalikn, the knucklebones of a 700 year old cataloo from Peru.

He told Charlie that he had taken a part of each old item like 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. He began telling him how amazing and dangerous these things were.

But then he said that it wasn’t time to tell that. He said that after a lot of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in his Inventing Room, he was able to produce one tiny cupful of oily black liquid. Out of that, he gave four drops to a twenty-year-old Oompa Loompa. Charlie asked Mr. Wonka what had happened. Mr. Wonka said that the result was fantastic. The moment the Oompa Loompa swallowed it, he began wrinkling and shrivelling up all over and his hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out. Soon, he had become an old Oompa Loompa of seventy five. This, Mr. Wonka concluded, was how the Vita-Wonk was invented.