charlotte's web characters.ppt

movie analysis

2. CHARLOTTE
A Spider
Charlotte is cool and collected.
She is practical, beautiful and skilled.

3. TEMPLETON
Templeton is the rat that lives under Wilbur's trough.
Crafty and selfish, he collects and stores bizarre odds
and ends and is happy to dig a tunnel to Wilbur's
trough and eat his food but never offers to give
anything in return.

4. LAMB
The young and insensitive lamb refuses to play with
Wilbur when he's lonely
Completely sure of himself, the lamb thinks he knows
better than Wilbur

5. GOOSE
This stuttering goose likes giving instructions and is a
bit of a trouble maker.
She is an attentive mother however and is keen to
protect her eggs from the harsh weather.
She is suspicious of Templeton

6. MR. ARABLE
Fern’s Dad
He is a practical man who has lost any sentimental
feelings for the animals he keeps

7. FERN
Fern is completely loving and, at the beginning of the
novel, totally innocent.
She is a moralist who saves Wilbur's life by arguing
with her father that a small piglet has just as much
right to live a large piglet.
Enjoys listening to Charlotte's stories and spending
time with the animals

8. WILBUR
Sensitive and vulnerable, Wilbur is born a runt
When he is then taken from Fern, he is very lonely
until he finds love when he meets Charlotte.

9. MR.ZUCKERMAN
Mr Zuckerman is Fern's uncle.
The owner of a large farm down the road from the
Arable's.
Mr Zuckerman raises pigs and buys Wilbur for six
dollars.