Essay - Charlotte's Web, Written by E.b. (Elwyn Brooks) White in 1952...

Charlotte's Web, written by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White in 1952, has long been loved ***** children of all ages. The book has been published in many different styles with varying illustrations and also in animation *****, most recently, as a fe*****ture film. Although a child's book, the themes *****re as important for adults: love, friendship, death ***** a part of life, parenting, and heroism.

A couple of plots are going on at the same time at a family farm. One concerns the daughter named Fern. When a pig gives birth, Fern's father says that he will do away with the runt of litter. Fern persuades her fa*****r to let him live and the two of them *****m a strong, loving relationship. When he grows larger, Wilbur is sent to Homer Zuckerman, a farmer down the road. Fern visits Wilbur regularly. However, they soon realize what happens to *****s when ***** reach their optimum size. Wilbur ***** be killed for someone's bacon.

The second plot revolves around the friendship ***** Wilbur forms with the spider, Charlotte, who lives in the barn. ***** is very afraid of be*****g butc*****ed, so Charlotte prom*****es to find a solution. She works hard ***** night ***** spins a wonderful web th*****t says, "Some Pig." Wilbur becomes very famous as all the ***** animals help Charlotte come up with other sayings for the *****. The most important one is "Humble," for "proud" and "low to ***** ground." He receives a special medal for being the best pig at the country fair ***** is saved from being butchered.

Meanwhile, Charlotte ***** getting ready ***** give *****. Charlotte dies and Wilbur takes her egg sac to watch over. Fin*****y, ***** small *****s start crawling out of the *****. Then, one morning, *****y blew away in the wind to start ***** own lives.

As noted above, there have been many different versions of Charlotte's Web over the years. The cover of the first book, illustrated by Garth Williams, is well kn***** ***** *****, parents and teachers. The ***** is written for an older reader, and is not a story book. However, ***** p*****rents read the story to their children, when they are young cannot yet *****. The original illustrations ***** be***** "dated" by today's standards, but ***** still wonderful in their detail.

Some children who are five or six can *****in to read this story, but it is appropriate for seven- through nine-year-olds to read it as *****. P*****nts should ***** ***** the vocabulary, which ***** sometimes difficult and also dated. The *****, such as ***** and e*****ly ***** should be discussed.

The ***** is very technical, ***** words like "Frigidaire," "phoebe" "interlude," "control," and "salutations," make ***** slow reading for a young child with***** help ***** a parent or teacher. The ***** is true f***** the concepts discussed,."..do you realize that i***** I didn't catch bugs and eat them, bugs would increase and multiply ***** get so numerous that they'd destroy the earth, wipe out e*****thing..." and."..

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