Charlotte's Web

Charlotte’s Web Feedback
Fascinating! I love the ways E.B. White incorporated human personalities into his characters and neatly arranged and story line that weaves the interaction between dream and reality.

    White introduces Wilbur as a young pig who is without knowledge of his own cruel fate. Hence, with childlike simplicity, Wilbur loved life, and sought merry in almost everything he encountered. However, animals at Zuckerman’s barn opened new perspectives to Wilburn. In one of the scenes, Wilbur was in eager to find friends to play with but other animals either disdained him for this low status (as being a pig) or ignored him because there are other more important things to deal with. This is a reflection of the real world: A great deal of people might show their superiority to other people of different gender, race, and or religion like the lamb in the story. Some other people also sought working and earning livings as the utmost importance and neglect the real value of life.

Templeton the rat, however gluttonous and disdainful, is actually a reflection of the real world. Templeton reveals the realistic character of most human beings: If there is nothing to be offered, people are reluctant to help others. For example, banks block people who are without sustainable jobs and high credit ratings from loaning. But in often times, these are usually the poor who are in desperate need of money to sustain their livings. It’s because the banks believed that they will not get back what they have loaned and therefore refuse to take the risk. But isn’t this just like Templeton the rat? Templeton would help neither Charlotte nor Wilbur unless he was given food, a benefit for himself. In this story, White made us reconsider our behaviors of whether we are too selfish sometimes.

Finally, there is Charlotte, the heroine of the story. Charlotte represents the female authorship and creativity role by saving Wilbur’s life and cleverly creating “miracles” on webs....