Thursday, December 13, 2012

Charolettes web Theme


Imagine being 8 years old and sitting down at the breakfast table to eat when you see out the window your father with an ax. When you ask your mother where he is going she gives you the news that he is going to kill a piglet that was born the night before. Imagine  running outside to stop him when he decides to give you the piglet to take care of. That’s what happened to Fern on the morning she got Wilbur the pig. In the book Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. Friendship is a major theme in this story as well as other stories for several reasons.

Friendship is a foundation of the novel. If Fern didn’t love Wilbur he would be killed as a runt and served for Christmas dinner.  Wilbur is saved by love twice the love is equally as powerful as a love story. Charlotte says in the story “what’s a life anyway? We’re born we live a little we die a spiders life can’t help but being something of a mess with all this trapping and eating flies by helping me you perhaps to life my life up a trifle heavens knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that”.

Books that have the theme of friendship because they are best friends and are always together and they will always do anything for each other. For example the story where Toad wanted a letter and Frog sent him one he did that to make him happy and toad would do the same. And how frog asks toad the what the matter is whenever he is looking sad

Fern and Wilbur are best friends and they love each other just like frog and toad and any other best friends they would save each other’s live actually that’s what fern did on the very first page of Charlotte’s web in both stories there is strong appearance of friendship and you can tell that right away.

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