ENWR 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eating Animals

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: English-Academic, Professional, & Creative Writing
• Course: ENWR 1510
• Professor: Lindgren Johnson

Document Summary

Charlotte eats bugs because she was made that way. Who has a voice throughout the book. The representation of death in this novel. Charlotte"s web traps humans and insects as well. Charlotte uses simple phrases to attract humans. Humans dismissed charlotte when the words appeared in the web. Either because she is a girl, or because she is a spider. God is credited for the work in the web. Hard to grasp a bug being able to speak in english. Charlotte left her work for interpretation, making her a good writer. Fern speaks up when wilbur was about to be killed while the animals gave wilbur actual advice to be safe. Fern was only able to listen to the animals but not able to speak with them. We are limited in how we can help animals. There is a shift from seeing wilbur as meat, to a pet, to a bringer of fame. No care for other animals, like uncle.