Annotation: pg. 184 " Usually in a paragraph in this style E.B White would use words like "the spider" and "the pig" but it's not about a pig and a spider. It's about Charlotte and Wilbur."
Throughout the book I noted when E.B White uses the names of the animals to narrate them through the story and why he's using it. I noticed that he has styles to his paragraphs and when I read the last paragraph of the book I noticed he used the style where he would normally write something like "The pig loved that spider", but no. He didn't use that. He used their real names, because I think he's trying to get across that it doesn't matter what they are, but who they are. They matter too. And they love too.
Time and time again the people in the book think that the web is a miracle, and give no credit to Charlotte. They only give credit to Wilbur and Mr. Zucherman. But Charlotte didn't care. She knew that she did it and that was all she needed. In the real world people always want to take credit for the amazing stuff they did. But Charlotte didn't care. She didn't care who she was. She didn't care who they thought made the web. It was her. It wasn't a spider. It was her.
And with Wilbur, sure he liked the attention. Sure, he thought he was radiant, terrific and humble. But he didn't think of himself as a radiant, terrific, humble, "pig". He was just like everyone else in his mind. And that's what E.B White is trying to tell the reader. He's trying to explain to us through his Author's Intrusion's, character's voices, character's minds, and character's actions that these characters matter just as much as everything else in the world. If we were people in the book we wouldn't be able to hear them and know their experience. We would think, "they're a pig and a spider. So what?". He's trying to tell us that animals have feelings too, and we shouldn't think differently of them.
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