" (Amidon). With this passage, White helps parents and educators that children can understand even the saddest things in life, even if they cannot understand or tolerate things like injustice. Wilbur is similar to the children that White targeted as readers. When Wilbur realizes that he cannot save Charlotte's life or even be with her in death, he takes a step to ensure her immortality. He pesters Templeton to help him, and he retrieves Charlotte's egg sac and takes it back to the barn. Once Charlotte's eggs hatch, Wilbur is excited to meet her children, hoping to find the type of friendship he had with their mother. However, Wilbur is again reminded that friendship is different, and that he saved the eggs for Charlotte, rather than for himself, when almost all of Charlotte's children leave the barn. However, some of them, like Wilbur, are runts, and are too weak to follow their siblings....
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Parents should help for the vocabulary, which is sometimes difficult and also dated. The themes, such as friendship and especially death should be discussed. The vocabulary is very technical, with words like "Frigidaire," "phoebe" "interlude," "control," and "salutations," make it slow reading for a young child without help from a parent or teacher. The same is true for the concepts discussed,."..do you realize that if I didn't catch bugs and
Neither parent however recognizes that Fern may be telling the truth, until Charlotte begins spinning words on her web. While Fern's uncle and aunt provide her with the opportunity to form friendships with the animals in their barn, they nevertheless also adhere to the utilitarian view of farm living. Farm animals are born and raised to serve human life, and not to provide friendship. Hence, Wilbur is fattened to become
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For example, instead of a farm theme, there is a wizard or magic theme to the otherwise basic educational lessons. Because this novel is already so widely read or watched by this student population, the students will already be familiar with the concepts and themes. This will limit any potential psychological impact on the students. Although there are various scenes of violence and death found throughout the book, these issues
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