I finished the book Charlotte's Web with my daughter, who was in the third grade, and of course, more often than not, I was reading it, and she was listening to it. After reading the book, I only said one sentence: "I will not deliberately hurt 'Charlotte' in the future!" The daughter, on the other hand, said nothing.
Cover of Charlotte's Web
One day, my daughter called me out loud on the balcony, saying that there was a "Charlotte" and asked me to see what to do.
I went to the balcony and saw a few spider webs pulled in a corner, and on one of them was a small gray spider crawling on it. We watched carefully together for a while, and no one tried to knock out the spiders, and no one broke the spider webs.
A few days later, I suddenly remembered the incident, and deliberately went to the balcony to look at it, and found that the spider and the spider web were gone. Maybe it was blown away by the wind.
The essay theme for the daughter's final exam is to write a gift. She came back and told me that she had written the book Charlotte's Web. I didn't ask her why she wrote the book, much less what she wrote. I didn't say anything, just gave my daughter the most sincere smile. My daughter was able to take this book as a gift I gave her, which shows that this book has a certain weight in her heart.
Speaking of the book "Charlotte's Web", many children may have read it. It's just that different children have different understandings, and children of different ages have different feelings. As an adult, I can't fully return to the psychology and perspective of children to recognize their feelings and understandings. I can only read this book and understand this story from the perspective of adult psychology and perspective, especially my personal cognition and vision.
Screenshot of the Charlotte's Web video
"The humblest beings also have beauty and dignity."
This is how I felt after reading the book and movie "Charlotte's Web", and it is also my understanding.
This feeling and understanding made me realize on a deeper level that this book is not only for children to read, but also for us parents and teachers. In a way, the children who are asked to read the book are also "humble" beings. Many times, whether they can show beauty and dignity basically comes from us adults, especially parents and teachers.
The book "Charlotte's Web" not only shows the praise of friendship and the attachment to life, but also reflects the respect for all life, so as to convey true love and dedication. This is not only what children need as students, but also what we need as parents and teachers.
"Charlotte's Web" is really a good book and an ideal story. Its author is the American White, who always treats everything in the world with the attitude of "facing complexity and keeping joy". The stories written by the authors with such an attitude always make people see hope, and they see different hopes.
A list of "people" in Charlotte's Web
As for the author, I don't know. Children may be familiar with the stories in the book, but I'll repeat them here:
In the home of a girl named Fern, the old sow gave birth to a litter of piglets. One of the piglets was small and too weak to grab milk, and Fern's parents called the pig a pig and decided they wouldn't live long. In order not to affect the growth of the other piglets, Fern's father decided to kill the weak piglet. After Fern knew, he did not agree to his father doing anything to harm the life of the piglet, and took the initiative to take the responsibility of raising the piglet.
She named the little piglet: Wilbur.
As Wilbur grew older, it was inconvenient for the family to raise it anymore, so they had to put it in the barn of his uncle's house to feed it, because there lived happily a large group of different animals. Soon, Wilbur became good friends with a spider named Charlotte and established the most sincere friendship. They live happily.
One day, the oldest sheep said a sentence that broke the calm of the barn: Wilbur's future fate was to become bacon ham, and the date may be this winter. As a pig, the grief-stricken and desperate Wilbur seems to be able to accept the fate of being slaughtered when it is due.
However, charlotte, a seemingly small spider, said, "I'll save you." ”
Therefore, Charlotte used her own spider silk to weave the "web" words that are regarded as miracles by human beings: "Ace Pig", "Remarkable", "Brilliant", "Humble"...
Wilbur's fortunes were radically changed, and he not only won a special prize in the bazaar competition, but also a future to enjoy in his old age.
But at this time, the life of the spider Charlotte came to an end...
This is not a tragic story, it is a fairy tale full of love, full of hope and courage to give.
The story respects every life, even the humble life of a piglet that everyone thinks will not live long. As Vern said when he stopped his father: "The piglet is born small, and it can't do anything about itself, right?" If I had been born very small, would you have killed me too? ”
The same is true for children, and just because we see what he was like when he was a child doesn't mean what he looks like when he grows up.
Every life, coming into this world, comes with his own mission. Every life, from birth to departure, has infinite possibilities. As long as he can be cherished, loved, and recognized.
Regarding love and giving, Wilbur and Charlotte's words and deeds can be enough to illustrate. Such a small and worthless spider can save a pig, and such a love effort makes Wilbur also learn to love, learn to pay. Although Charlotte is gone, Wilbur cannot give love directly to Charlotte, but can pass this love on to Charlotte's children, to all other animals. And Charlotte's children, while getting Wilbur's love, also learned to pass on love. Passed down from generation to generation, day by day, our love and dedication will never stop.
As for the departure of the spider, it is a kind of departure after giving love, a kind of departure without regrets, and a normal departure that follows the laws of nature. This also requires our respect, just as we respect any tiny being that emerges