Charlottes Web Conflicts

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Charlottes Web has many internal and external conflicts within the book and movie. The main conflict is between Wilbur, the pig, and his fate if he does not show his worthiness to the farmer. Wilbur and the spider, Charlotte, befriend each other, and Charlotte shows the farmer how important of a pig Wilbur is by spinning webs that display parts of his personality, but more importantly, showing Wilbur that he's a winner just for being himself. I believe this is a conflict because Wilbur is fighting to show he is worthy of not being turned into bacon and living his life. The character is Wilbur, and the fate is being turned into bacon if he doesn’t show his usefulness. Charlottes Web shows how the characters resolve their problems with teamwork, …show more content…

In Charlottes Web, I believe the main conflict that stood out was Wilbur versus the fact that he will go into the smokehouse if he doesn’t prove his worthiness to the farmer. The spider and WIlbur befriend each other and she promises to not let anything happen to Wilbur by coming up with a plan to show how bright Wilbur is to the farmer so that he can stay alive. This is a conflict because Wilbur is going between the mindset of figuring out a way to show he isn’t just made to be bacon, and actually getting turned into bacon.

The main cause of the conflict is the farmer’s daughter saving Wilbur. If the daughter didn’t have such a strong liking for Wilbur, than he would’ve already been turned into bacon. In the book, Fern cried,
“Papa! Papa, stop! Don't kill it! It's unfair.” It is a good thing that the farmer’s daughter saved Wilbur from being turned into Thanksgiving ham, because he wouldn’t have met Charlottes or proved his worth. I believe there are smaller causes to the conflict, but the farmer’s daughter was the most obvious reason why Wilbur and Charlotte collaborated so well to save his life. I think what delayed the killing of Wilbur was the fact that he was just a piglet, and would not have been fully grown until the end of the

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