BOOK REPORT

ENGLISH 10
1ST QUARTER
Submitted by: Ysidrelle A. De Bien
Submitted to: Alma B. Aguila

I. Title
Charlottte's Web

II. Author
E. B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Cornell
University. His writings appeared for many years in The New Yorker magazine.
He was awarded the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his children's books
STUART LITTLE and CHARLOTTE'S WEB, and his third book for children, THE TRUMPET OF
THE SWAN, also won several awards. The author of seventeen books of prose and
poetry, Mr. White received many distinguished literary honors. In 1973 he was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

III. Settings
The story happens in the seasons before Winter, which are Spring, Summer and
Autumn. It takes place in Fern's house, Zuckerman's Farm and the Country Fair.

IV. Major Characters

Wilbur- is sensitive and vulnerable, Wilbur is born a runt and saved from an
untimely death by Fern who subsequently looks after him until he is five weeks old.

Charlotte- is cool and collected. She is practical, beautiful, skilled and

unsentimental. She is clever and loyal to her friends - she is the first to comfort
Wilbur by assuring him she will save him when he finds out that he is to be killed
at Christmastime.

Fern- is completely loving and, at the beginning of the novel, totally innocent.
She is a moralist who saves Wilbur's life by arguing with her father that a small
piglet has just as much right to live a large piglet.

Templeton- is the rat that lives under Wilbur's trough.Templeton plays a crucial
role in the story by finding the words and retrieving the egg sac. Although he does
so reluctantly, he has a large impact on what happens to Wilbur in the end.

Mr Zuckerman- is Avery and Fern's uncle and the owner of a large farm down the road
from the Arable's.Mr Zuckerman benefits hugely from Wilbur's fame and does
everything he can to capitalize on it. He is much more attentive to Wilbur as a
result and enters him into a competition at the County Fair.

V. Summary
Fern Arable rescues the runt of a pig�s litter, Wilbur, from certain
slaughter. She cares for the pig. Mr. Arable, fearing his daughter is becoming too
attached to an animal that is being bred to be butchered, sends Wilbur to the
nearby farm of Fern�s uncle, Mr. Zuckerman.

Wilbur settles into his new home. At first, he�s lonely and misses Fern, but
he settles in when he meets a spider named Charlotte and other animals, including
Templeton, a rat. When Wilbur discovers his fate, to be a bacon in Christmastime,
Charlotte makes a plan to help him.

She spins a web over Wilbur that reads: �Some Pig.� Mr. Zucker spots her work
and thinks it is a miracle. Charlotte keeps spinning her words, demanding Templeton
to bring back labels so she can copy words such as �Terrific� over Wilbur�s pigpen.
 When Wilbur is taken to the country fair, Charlotte and Templeton go to
continue their work, as Charlotte spins new messages. The results draw enormous
crowds and Charlotte�s plan to save Wilbur�s life pays off.

At the close of the fair, however, Charlotte says goodbye to Wilbur. She is
dying. But she entrusts her friend with a sack of eggs she has spun. Heartbroken,
Wilbur takes the eggs back to the farm and sees that they hatch. Three of
Charlotte�s �kids� stay with Wilbur, who lives happily with Charlotte�s
descendants.

VI. Analysis
The action of the characters leaves an impact. For example, Fern�s caring for
Wilbur teaches her responsibility, and she realizes that if she stands up for what
she believes in she can make a difference in the world.
Charlotte and Wilbur�s friendship, despite their differences in nature,
teaches tolerance. As he grows up, like any child, Wilbur learns to cope with fear,
loss, mortality, and loneliness.
Although a story of life and death, it is also full of warmth, with silly
characters such as the geese and the snobby sheep.
The author, E.B. White, written a wealth detail about animals from his own
life on a farm that makes the story live. He also described carefully the setting
as if I was there, the use of lyrics even make it more realistic.
The twist in the end hurts, but it shows that we can't always get what we
want in the ending but it helps us to face the truth.

VII. Recommendation
Charlotte's web is for everyone. The books show us how we can bear the
triumphs and despairs, the woders and the heartbreaks, the small and large glories
and tragedies of being here.

VIII. Moral Lesson

Charlotte's Web tells us to find the beauty and love of friendship as well as
the importance of having a true friend. The beauty also lies with Charlotte who
changed (and saved) lives through the power of her writing. We can also do the same
with our writings or words.