ENGL208C Lecture 12: Module 12b. Charlottes Web. Nov. 22 2014.docx
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An intro: domestic animal fantasy, american book from 1952, celebrates the virtues of rural america, pig behavior true to his animal nature, templeton is true to his rat nature, self serving, opportunist, a glutton. Its view of childhood is wordsowrthian childhood as special, innocent and semi divine (fern can understand the animals: the movement to the adult world is a kind of death, after the fall fair fern is careful not to be seen doing childish things, she starts to grow up and loses the ability to hear the animals, the loss of all innocence and childhood, a dislike and criticism of the adult world, we lose the ability to see the important things around us, underlying critical vision of the adult world because of the things we"ve lost, the great irony of life is that you can never get it back, or can only get it back in.