What I Appreciate About Charlotte's Web Revised Entry #6

What I have really come to appreciate about Charlotte's Web is the fact that the characters really have there own individual personality, not like you see normally in other children's books where all the characters are flat and have no emotions, and the only way to distinguish them one from another is, Boy or Girl, and by names.

In Charlotte's Web, many, if not all the characters are very well developed. They all have an important role to play, in the beginning or at the end of the story. In the other little children's books, the characters seem 2 dimensional. In Charlotte's Web, the characters develop a certain personality that you might find in a yearling book. 

For example, when the lambs didn't want to play with Wilbur, they set him off crying, and then that is when Charlotte made her revelation and showed herself to Wilbur. And that really starts out what the real story is.
Another part where the lambs play a big role in is, when Templeton is trying to be rebellious, the eldest lamb always puts him in place and is there to chastise him whenever needed to.

Another way the lambs play a part in Charlotte's Web, is when the eldest sheep tell Wilbur that he is going to get  killed. Which sets up or builds up the main theme of the story, how to save Wilbur from another untimely death. 

Another example, how Charlotte, apart from being the main character has a lot going on. How she really has her own personal opinions about everything and everyone, although she might not express them as openly as Wilbur would. She really has personification added in to her, while she may act like a human, talking, thinking and everything, she still drags along with her her spider like features and that really makes her who she is.

This story really is one of my favorite childhood books I have ever read. But E.B White is a master, because he knows how to balance out his characters and the elements. Really good.   

What I Appreciate About Charlotte's Web Entry #4

What I really appreciate about Charlotte's Web, is the honest and sincere friendship to really, the end, and again continuing on from there.  

In Charlotte's Web, the friendship overcomes many obstacles, and one way or the other, they conquer it.
An example of what i am trying to say is, when Avery was trying to capture Charlotte and put her in a box, (and then after that God knows what he was going to do...) Wilbur was going hysterical and made Avery fall over, and there for, breaking the rotten goose egg and make then run off. Wilbur in a way DID save Charlotte's life. 

Another example of how friendship is a very big thing in this book, is when Charlotte makes her web in a different pattern just to show to the world how he's a very extraordinary pig, in every single way. So in a way she was sacrificing her web to save her best friend.

This book has many more examples, but these (to me) are the most essential to the book plot.

What I Appreciate About Charlotte's Web Entry #5

What I really have come to appreciate about Charlotte's Web as a book, is, that it is really double sided. One one hand it is tender and loving. But on the other it is really facing the reality of this world, talking about death, being mean to others, and many others.

For example when Fern saved Wilbur's life from death because he was born a runt, she was feeding his like a baby on a bottle, and pretty much all of the time she was raising Wilbur, she was tender and loving like her mother. While her brother Avery, in the same scene, is more violent. An example to support my statement is the fact that, while Fern is holding a piglet in her arms, Avery is holding a gun and a wooden dagger. Which really states the difference clearly


Another example of how this book is really mature is the fact that, when Wilbur felt lonely, he asked many of the barn animals if they would be his friend and they said very meanly and cruelly, "no" and gave him very mean and bad reasons why.
One- Because he smelled bad
Two-Because he was  in a pig pen and he the other animals could jump over.
Three-He was "too small"
      Things like these can hurt many peoples feelings and yet they are written in books like Charlotte's Web.

Another example is, well, death. In the very beginning of Charlotte's Web, the beginning theme is death.
The fact that Mr. Arable wanted to kill Wilbur when he was born because he was a runt, but then Fern comes and saves the day.

Another huge one is when one of the main characters dies, Charlotte.

I mean, this book if read bya 5 year old may not seem very bad. Because this book although it may have a very adultlike theme, it is put behind the lens of an innocent mind, so it isn't very hurtful.