Charlotte's Web

Introduction

The study is related to the Charlotte's Web, a novel by E. B. White, the study particularly focuses on the characters of the story. Charlotte's Web is the story of a young girl named Fern, Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, and Templeton the rat who keeps everything he finds. At the beginning of the story, Fern Arable asked her mother, “Where is papa going with an ax?”. Fern's mother, Mrs. Arable, replied that one of the pigs was a runt, which in a litter faces disadvantages, including competing with its siblings for survival and rejection from its mother.

In particular, the study focuses on two characters that are Wilbur and Charlotte. In addition to this, the Charlotte's Web touches the hearts of readers because it tells honestly the story of animals who live in a barn and behave as they are programmed to behave. Charlotte is a spider who must continue to spin webs and trap insects because that is her job. When she befriends the lonely pig, Wilbur, and ingeniously saves his life by spinning words into her web, she cannot prolong her own life. She must die after she lays her egg sac and Wilbur will have to be content with the friendship of several of her more than 500 offspring who remain living in the barn.

Wilbur

The character of Charlotte's Web, Wilbur was born a runt and saved from an unfortunate death by Fern who afterward looks after him until he was five weeks old. Wilbur was vulnerable and sensitive; he was babied and pampered and is totally content when he is enclosed by the love of Fern. Wilbur is wheeled around in her pram and he joins Avery and her, when they went to swimming and stumble in the near mud.

When Wilbur was then taken from ...