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What Is The Scribbles In Charlotte's Web
Vanessa Nguyen
Prof. Jennifer Mooney
English 1301
2014 September 22
Charlotte’s Web Reading is such a strange concept. People are willingly staring at a piece of deconstructed wood that has been pressed thin, and they continually try to decipher scribbles that are written on it by graphite from a writing device. By themselves, the scribbles slowly begin to form into words, and as a whole, the scribbles that have formed into words can now be read in its entirety and be grouped into a category or genre that it may fall under. For example, the book, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (an award winning novel and movie), is a beautifully written piece of work for people of all ages, and it can be categorized as a fantasy because of his main character’s unusual interactions, intelligence, and human-like characteristics. In Charlotte 's Web by E.B. White, White allows his audience to know that something bad is going to happen to Wilbur, the pig
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For example, they never realize that reading can be broken down and taken apart sentence by sentence and be evaluated into different divisions and/or classification, such as metaphors, similes, anaphoras, etc. In the novel, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, I discovered a small division and/or classification that the novel fell into. Because of all the fictional elements in the story, it seemed to fit most appropriately into the fantasy category, but to be categorized as a fantasy novel, the novel must have characteristics that are impossible to happen in reality. Therefore, after an analysis of the texts, one can discover that traits of a fantasy novel in the book. For example, the unusual relationship between the two main character which are a pig and spider and the intellect and human like behaviors that the animal character in this book hold are all characteristics that categorize this book as a fantasy

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