In connecting my notes from Charlottes web I've noticed a few that really say a lot about the author of the book E.B White.
In several parts of the book I have noticed mentions about death of Wilbur and turning him int tasty ham and crunchy bacon and how horrible this is that it is uncouth to speak of. However the truth is that eating ham and bacon really is not that uncommon and man kind eats meat as part of his diet. It's our nature and no more out of the normal than waking up in the morning. So why than is this considered such a crime in the book Charlottes Web? Maybe E.B White is trying to get a message across to the reader like he often does in this book. So what is this message if there is one hiding under these created attitudes of the characters?
What I have come to conclude based off of my annotations and connecting the dots, is White trying to get across to the reader about the horrors of eating animals. Not the animals, or the humans in the book but E.B White. He is just using the characters as a voice tube to get across to the reader. Who knows, maybe White was a vegetarian, maybe he was just an animal lover and thought butchering and eating an animal was wrong, but as White has come cross the book Charlotte Web in many different forms of characters, attempting to get his message across to the reader, I believe he is doing the same here.
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