Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Charlotte' Web

Charlotte's WebAuthor: E. B. White

Exposition: Fern lives on a farm.  Her family raises pigs.  Fern saves a runt and names it Wilbur.  Charlotte the spider will also help to save Wilbur.

Conflict: Wilbur the pig has discovered the fact that when pigs grow up, they are killed.

Rising Action: Wilbur needs help from being killed.  He meets up with a spider named Charlotte.  She thinks of words to spin in her web to describe Wilbur.  Wilbur will then, in turn, become famous and not be killed.

Climax:  Wilbur is taken to the county fair.  Charlotte spins another web which helps Wilbur to win a blue ribbon.  Charlotte spins her last web and requests Wilbur take care of her egg sack after she dies.

Falling Action: Wilbur takes the egg sack back to the farm and waits for the babies to arrive.

Resolution: All of the babies hatch and fly away on their web strings except for 3 which are the runts, and they live in the barn with Wilbur and the other farm animals.

White, E.B. Charlotte's Web. HarperCollins Pub.

ISBN: 9780061124952

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