Resumo de Charlotte?s Web

One of the most enduring classics in children's literature, this book is poignantly and elegantly written, whose main theme is true friendship and sacrifice. E.B. White is a well-known expert on writing and the English language. Her prose is alive, the characters are real, and the dialogue can be extremely funny.
All the major characters in the book are animals: there is a rat, a cow, some sheep, a runt piglet named Wilbur, and a beautiful soul you will never forget, Charlotte the spider. The story is simple enough, beginning with a charming human girl Fern, and the details of simple farm life. Every spring, baby animals are born and Fern is active around the farm, helping out with the chores.
When a runt piglet is born and Fern's father decides to have him roasted, saying he wouldn't survive anyway, Fern begs for the pig's life and begins to raise him herself, feeding him milk from a bottle and naming him Wilbur. As Wilbur begins to thrive, the farmer agrees to spare his life, for now, and accords him a pen of his own. Wilbur awakens in his new home to the sound of an elegant female voice greeting him formally. The voice is coming from Charlotte, a large spider with a web directly above Wilbur's pen. They soon become fast friends, despite a great gap in maturity and, when it becomes known that Wilbur is destined to become the farmer's dinner, spider Charlotte goes to great lengths to save her friend's life.
On the day Wilbur is supposed to be slaughtered, and for weeks afterward, the farmer and his family awaken to find a banner written above the pen inside Charlotte's web which spells out. Indeed, as the days and weeks pass, the phrases change and, for the humans, this seems to be some supernatural omen denying them the right to kill the pig. Instead, Wilbur becomes a star, touring the farmers' markets, but not for sale, only for show. He becomes the most pampered animal on the farm, yet none of the other characters are jealous because he has such a sweet and innocent nature. The true star of the novel, Charlotte, is a character people never forget; the depth of her love and sacrifice, first for Wilbur and then for her future children (500 of them, no less), touch every reader. The book can be almost unbearably sad, for Charlotte dies and Wilbur and the others mourn her passing. But life goes on, and, luckily for Wilbur, three of Charlotte's five hundred children end up making their homes in his pen.
Beginning with Fern's love for the baby pig and her sorrow at thinking he will lose his life, then moving on to the friendship existing between the pig and the spider, and culminating in Wilbur's love and sense of responsibility for Charlotte's unborn children, the novel examines the nature of friendship and loss, love and separation, in a clear and appealing language which kids will find irresistable.
A profound and delightful book for all ages, Charlotte's Web is one those books one never forgets, and sometimes rereads for the sheer pleasure of re-encountering beloved characters, human and animal!

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