Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Charlotte's Web written by E. B. White

Chapter4,5 page25-41


One rainy day, Wilbur was bored, and he started to feel loneliness. He tried to make a friend to make his life more fun. He asked a rat, a goose, and sheeps to be his friand, but all of them refused. He was getting lonely more and more. At the time, it was night, he heard a voice from darkness. The voice said, "I can become your friend." , but he couldn't see anything. The voice also said, "you can see me at daytime." He waited for daybreak. After dawn, he finally find new friend. The voice was from a spider whose name is charlotte. However, he doesn't like her
behavior: fierce, brutal, scheming, and blood-thirsty.


Actually I hate spiders, so I didn't want him to have spider friend.When I read a part of description of spider's meal, I didn't feel well.

1 comment:

Tim said...

I hate spiders, too. I think the writer here is setting herself -- and her readers -- a challenge: can she make a spider a sympathetic character? And can she do it while still admitting that spiders have disgusting eating habits? Well, read the book, and then tell me if she succeeded in making you care about Charlotte.