My first book report

The book report of "Charlotte's web"

Written by Hank Su

Date: 2008/4/19

Summary
Mr. Arable has one daughter Fern and a boy Avery. One day, Mr. Arable’s farm has a runt. He wants to kill it, but his daughter Fern stops him. She loves the pig. She names the pig Wilbur. A few weeks later and Mr. Arable pay some money to Mr. Zuckerman. He is Fern’s uncle. He has a servant, Lurvy. Wilbur goes to their barn to live. Fern usually visits Wilbur. In the barn, he makes friends with a goose, a rat Templeton, an old sheep and his best friend Charlotte. She is a beautiful spider. She watches over Wilbur for a long time. She thinks Wilbur doesn’t know that Mr. Zuckerman is planning to kill him when Christmas comes.

One time, the old sheep accidentally says that at Christmas Mr. Zuckerman may kill Wilbur because it happened many times before. Charlotte doesn’t want Wilbur to die so she spins some words to make Mr. Zuckerman change his mind. She spins the words “Some Pig”, “terrific” and “radiant”. Wilbur becomes famous. Mr. Zuckerman plans to take Wilbur to the county fair. They take Wilbur to the fair. They want Wilbur to win an award. Charlotte also comes to the fair, too. Soon, she will have babies. Also, after she bears the babies, she will die. Charlotte thinks she needs to spin some last words.

The last word is “Humble”. Everybody is looking at that miracle. At night, Charlotte bears the egg sac. She becomes emaciated. The fair is ending so it is time to bestow the awards. Wilbur wins an award! Mr. Zuckerman and Fern’s families are very happy. When they return to the barn, Charlotte says she can’t return. She will die in one or two days. Wilbur saves Charlotte’s babies. In the winter, Mr. Zuckerman doesn’t kill Wilbur because he is famous. When spring comes; the babies come out of the eggs. Three little spiders stay with Wilbur. Wilbur is happy. He will never forget Charlotte! The gray spiders live in the barn with him.





My thought
In this book, I like Charlotte. She is smart. For example, in part ten she has an idea to spin some words in the webs. I like Charlotte a lot! I hate Mr. Zuckerman, because he plans to kill Wilbur. For example, in part sixteen when he is talking with Mr. Arable about killing Wilbur. I think he is crazy.

I like some parts of this book, like that the animals can talk and the little girl Fern understands what they say. That is really cool. For example, in part thirteen, Charlotte is telling stories to Wilbur and Fern knows what she is talking about. She also tells those stories to her parents.

The author of the book “Charlotte’s web” wrote well at the characters are great. And she made animals talk. The author didn’t write well some tiny things. For example, when Charlotte is finding the words she knows what the words mean. Why could Charlotte know these words? If the author had written more about this, this book would have been better.

I love this book’s ending, because the ending touches people’s hearts. For example, in the last part of the book Charlotte dies. However, Wilbur saves her children. I think the end is about what friendship is. Charlotte helps Wilbur and he also helps her. I think this is what friendship is about. This book’s ending is great!

I have a criticism of this book: Why does Fern understand the animal’s language? This book doesn’t talk it about. For example, in the part thirteen Wilbur is talking to Charlotte and Fern knows how they are talking about. The author should explain why she understands while other humans do not.






What I learned
In this book, I learned that animals also have feelings. Maybe if their mother dies, they will be sad. I also learned what friendship is and the truth of people killing animals. Some animals are smart and they know what you are doing, like pigs or cows. If you kill their mother, they know. They will be sad. Animals have feelings! Many people have a bad concept: Humans are the strongest on the Earth. We are not! The animals and humans are equal, so we can’t kill those animals!

When I finished this book, I realized I knew more vocabulary. Now, I know a lot of vocabulary and it helps me to speak English more fluently.

This book is the first English book I’ve read and I think if I read more English books, I can have better English writing skills. Also, I think I can read English books faster.

Have you ever read “Charlotte's Web”? This book is great young adult fiction. The animals in this book are cool and the ending touches people's heart. If you haven't read it, I would suggest this book to you!