Talk:Willy Wonka Beta Tape/@comment-44540430-20200214193055

Miranda is the name of the sixth child Roald Dahl intended to add. He removed her because he thought too many children would make the book too long or confusing. She is a girl who is allowed to do anything she wants, and her disappearance involves falling into a machine along with her father. Her full name was Miranda Mary Piker. There were a number of other children that didn't make it to the finished book, but Dahl wrote an entire chapter about her before scrapping it. I read the chapter in The Missing Golden Ticket, which is about Dahl's work that never got published. Give it a read! Anyway, Miranda IS a character......how funny.