Plot summary

After a little girl named Fern Arable pleads for the life of the

runt of a litter of piglets, one spring morning, her father gives

her the pig to nurture, and she names him Wilbur. She treats him as

a pet, but a month later, no longer small, Wilbur is sold to Fern's

uncle, Homer In barnyard Wilbur yearns for companionship but is

snubbed by the other animals. He is befriended by a barn spider

named Charlotte, whose web sits in a doorway overlooking Wilbur's

enclosure. When Wilbur discovers that he is being raised for

slaughter, she promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to spare his

life. Fern often sits on a stool, listening to the animals'

conversation, but over the course of the story, as she starts to

mature, she begins to find other interests.As the summer passes,

Charlotte ponders the question of how to save Wilbur. At last, she

comes up with a plan, which she proceeds to implement. Reasoning

that  would not kill a famous pig, Charlotte weaves words or short

phrases in praise of Wilbur into her web, making the barn, and pig, a tourist

attraction, with the web believed to be a miracle. At the county

fair, to which he is accompanied by Charlotte and the rat, Wilbur

fails to win the blue ribbon, but is awarded a special prize by the

judges. Charlotte, by then dying as barn spiders do in the fall,

hears the presentation over the public address system and knows

that the prize means will cherish Wilbur for as long as the pig,

and will never slaughter him for his meat. She does not return to

the farm with Wilbur and , remaining at the fairgrounds to die, but

allows Wilbur to take with him her egg sac, from which her children

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hatch in the spring.Wilbur waits out the winter, a winter he

would not have survived but for Charlotte. Delighted when the tiny

spiders hatch, he  when most leave the barn. Three remain to take

up residence in Charlotte's old doorway. Pleased at finding new

friends, Wilbur names one of them Nellie, while the remaining two

name themselves Joy and . Further generations of spiders keep him

company in subsequent years.