Thursday, September 23, 2010

After another day...

Have you  ever wondered, if there was a parallel universe where you can see all sorts of things. Things that go wrong but can be fixed even the most drastic. Things were you have to power to do whatever you want but you know that it is going to be okay? Yes, as children we all wish to be in that world. The ideal world. The fantasy hideout. But when reality hits you, you'll feel the impact like you have just woken up on a fine sunny, bright day but someone dumps cold water on you and you have nothing else to change into. Yes that may be the real world. The real world of harshness, sadness, depression. Not the ideal world of child play.

This is what i felt when Charlotte told Wilbur she is dying. Charlotte took her death as if it is any other event of a day. But when we read it, when Wilbur hears this news it's like someone used a knife and jabbed it into you. Every time I read this book I feel like crying or am crying for the end. the end when everything ends. When everything ends, a new beginning is born. That is what i see in this book. Everything must end before a new beginning arrives. You must know what sadness is before you actually realize you are in a thriving happy environment. You must feel loss before you start winning. I have learned these things in an early age but this books deepens this matter. I felt this book was very philosophical. It contained things most people ignore, things people think is inelegant and improper but E.B. White managed to use this book and let people fall for what the society thinks is bad for you.

Although I have irrational fear over spiders (caused by arachnophobia) I have really come to love Charlotte more than before. She is so smart and i really wonder how did she learn all those words even as a newborn.

1 comment:

  1. I like how you put in the concept of life and death through out the book. That was big in Charlotte's web. Spring comes, things are born, flowers, pigs, trees. Winter comes and things die. That's the harsh reality. But it;s the cycle of life, (which you infered) and that's that. Finding out someone you love is dying is hard. And you brought that out.

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