To me, Charlotte is the mentor of the story. She helps Wilbur and she teaches him, she even saves his life.
Ever since the day the two met they made a strange pair, but there friendship over ruled that. Anyway, Charlotte has been teaching him since day one. The first time was when Charlotte said salutations. Wilbur asked what it ment, and so the teaching began. Every day Charlotte tought Wilbur something new. And when Wilbur found out he was going to die, Charlotte was the first person to try and help, and also the only person. She started to think up a plan, and made sure to have it pull through in the end. That's more then anybody has ever done for Wilbur. And it saved him.
Charlotte could aslo be portrayed as the hero of the story. Like I said before, she saved Wilbur's life. If anybody deserves to be a hero, it's Charlotte. But, I guess Wilbur can be a called a hero too. Like, in the end of the book when he got the egg sac, that could be considered heroic. But the problem with that is that I start thinking that Templeton is a hero. He was the one that brought Charlotte the words she wove into her web to save Wilbur. he was the one to get the egg sac down for Wilbur.
In the end, I really don't know who was the hero. I only know the mentor, Charlotte, and what she did for Wilbur.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Connecting Annotations Blog
1st annotation. p12.
In the book this is where I first notice that E.B. White seems to be saying that things don't last forever, no matter how much you want it to. Like on this this page I wrote how Fern doesn't want to give up Wilbur, and Wilbur doesn't want to give up Fern. They both don't want things to change, but they have to, that is life.
As the book went on, I started to see this more and more. The idea that nobody wants anything to change, but of course they can't have that. On p 49 there is a very clear example. It is when the sheep tells Wilbur that he is going to die and be turned into ham. I wrote about how mean that was and how Wilbur thought it was going to last, that he was going to live forever. I mean, I know how he feels. When my grandpa died in 6th grade, I didn't know that was going to happen. I didn't even think about how things could change like that, for the worst. But things changed. Nobody is moping around everyday anymore. Life moved on. We did too, but we still can't forget him. This makes me go to the thought I had in the end of the book.
On p 183, Wilbur was so happy to be alive, and everybody (especially Charlotte) was happy he was alive too. But Wilbur wasn't happy. He took Charlotte for granted, and thats what we all do, and what we all shouldn't do.
In the book this is where I first notice that E.B. White seems to be saying that things don't last forever, no matter how much you want it to. Like on this this page I wrote how Fern doesn't want to give up Wilbur, and Wilbur doesn't want to give up Fern. They both don't want things to change, but they have to, that is life.
As the book went on, I started to see this more and more. The idea that nobody wants anything to change, but of course they can't have that. On p 49 there is a very clear example. It is when the sheep tells Wilbur that he is going to die and be turned into ham. I wrote about how mean that was and how Wilbur thought it was going to last, that he was going to live forever. I mean, I know how he feels. When my grandpa died in 6th grade, I didn't know that was going to happen. I didn't even think about how things could change like that, for the worst. But things changed. Nobody is moping around everyday anymore. Life moved on. We did too, but we still can't forget him. This makes me go to the thought I had in the end of the book.
On p 183, Wilbur was so happy to be alive, and everybody (especially Charlotte) was happy he was alive too. But Wilbur wasn't happy. He took Charlotte for granted, and thats what we all do, and what we all shouldn't do.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Charlotte's Web Entry #1
In the book I've noticed that E.B. White manages to hide little tips and things for little kids all throughout the book. I think that he does this because he hopes it will help the people that will read the book. For example, in the beginning of the book when Avery comes downstairs and asks if he could have a pig too Mr.Arable answers that she was up at daylight and now she has a pig. I think here E.B. White it saying that if you wake up early you get rewarded, which is a good message for little kids. He does this in many other places in the book but i can't find anymore right now.
One thing that I like about the book so far is that it is written from Wilbur's view for the most part. Little bits are Fern's or Charlotte's. Bu anyway I like it when it is Wilburs view because you kind of get to see things at the other end of the line. I mean seriosly, would a pig really know that he was going to die? And if he did would he react like Wilbur did? The world will never know. Bu tfrom this book you can get an idea.
One thing I don't like about most of the book is that so far the book has really been limited to just Wilbur's pen. I feel like E.B. White should have described the outside more, especially when Wilbur really wanted to get out. I feel like he could have said how Wilbur was itching to get outside and sit under the apple trees or something like that. But I can't change that. Nobody could change that.
One thing that I like about the book so far is that it is written from Wilbur's view for the most part. Little bits are Fern's or Charlotte's. Bu anyway I like it when it is Wilburs view because you kind of get to see things at the other end of the line. I mean seriosly, would a pig really know that he was going to die? And if he did would he react like Wilbur did? The world will never know. Bu tfrom this book you can get an idea.
One thing I don't like about most of the book is that so far the book has really been limited to just Wilbur's pen. I feel like E.B. White should have described the outside more, especially when Wilbur really wanted to get out. I feel like he could have said how Wilbur was itching to get outside and sit under the apple trees or something like that. But I can't change that. Nobody could change that.
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