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Charolttes Web Essay

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This is about a love, friendship novel. Charlotte’s Web is one of the most popular books written by E.B. White, and it was published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers. The book evokes positive emotions and influences the audience in spite of its seeming simplicity. At the same time, the book raises such themes as friendship, which is one of the central themes of the book. In such a way, the author apparently attempts to draw the attention of the audience to relations of people and revives the importance of friendship in the life of people, though the book shows it through animals, which are main characters of “Charlotte’s Web” but their relations resemble those of humans. It description of a spider named Charlotte how to save a pig Wilbur from slaughter. Charlotte successes, but she is also aging .After reading Chapter 6 of A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, I know that the type of plot in Charlotte’s Web is progressive plot, and the other two considerations about plot are coincidence and sentimentality. “The plots of Charlotte’s Web, Weedflower, and 90 Miles to Havana, with their central climaxes followed quickly by denouement, are called progressive plots.”(Lukens et al 159). The story which is prog...

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