Charlotte's Web: Critical Review
Charlotte's Web Critical Review: Focus on Setting
In a very real sense, Charlotte's Web is set in E. B. White's barn in Maine. In the story though it is not White's barn but the Zuckerman's farm. And yet, the farm is not the only setting in the book. In chapter 17 we were introduced to a new setting, the country fair. The first image we are given when the group arrives at the fair is of the Ferris wheel: “When they pulled into the Fair Grounds, they could hear music and see the Ferris wheel turning in the sky”(130). Surely this constantly moving wheel is symbolic of change. Soon after, Fern says “I’m going to win a doll by spinning a wheel and it will stop at the right number”(130). If the fair is a place of change and transformation, Fern’s
In a very real sense, Charlotte's Web is set in E. B. White's barn in Maine. In the story though it is not White's barn but the Zuckerman's farm. And yet, the farm is not the only setting in the book. In chapter 17 we were introduced to a new setting, the country fair. The first image we are given when the group arrives at the fair is of the Ferris wheel: “When they pulled into the Fair Grounds, they could hear music and see the Ferris wheel turning in the sky”(130). Surely this constantly moving wheel is symbolic of change. Soon after, Fern says “I’m going to win a doll by spinning a wheel and it will stop at the right number”(130). If the fair is a place of change and transformation, Fern’s