Tuesday, September 21, 2010

charlotte's web: connected annotation

Throughout the book E.B white gave many animals human faces. I think it's because he's trying to show us that the animals in this book act just like humans and they aren't just animals we kill and that we should respect them as much as we respect each other. Just like the the iroquois indians did. They would not waste any part of any animal, they only killed if they needed food. They would then use the bones to make tools and weapons therefore not wasting any part of the animal.

I know that E.B White loved animals and lived on a farm (as I heard from the annotated version of Charlottes web) and he would not like for animals to be killed just because their small, or some cruel people do it just for fun. He would want to save as many animals as he could and I believe that he gave these animals faces like us because he wanted to show the world that they or we are demented versions of the other kind. 

These pictures actually correspond to the theme of the book, and they help it get across to the readers. We should try to save animals as much as we try to save humans. When E.B white had the picture of Charlotte on her web up close is when I first realized that they had those special faces, and then I looked back and I saw that many of the other animals a few pages back had these faces too. At first I was very confuse at why, but then I heard that E.B White loved animals, and boom it hit me. E.B White must be using these pictures to show us something, something important...

When Avery was going to knock down Charlotte and put her in a box, he tripped and crushed the rotten egg Templeton had. I believe E.B put that part in there as a form of Karma. He was going to take Charlotte for no important reason and he got gassed by the stench of the rotten egg.

I believe that if we all respected animals more that we would live a better life.





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