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* Then there's Wilbur's homecoming scene. Neither the book nor the animated version show the animals other than Wilbur mourning Charlotte's death, but here, we see them notice her absence and Wilbur's tears, and silently realize what happened. They all gaze up at the torn remains of her old web in the doorway, then sadly bow their heads.
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** And he’s ''right:'' by the time the county fair where Wilbur's life is saved for good rolls around, Fern’s begun to grow up, and shown in a far more jarring nature than in the movies. After she develops a crush on Henry, she ignores Wilbur - the pig she loved and raised - ''completely'' in favor of spending all her time riding the fair’s attractions (namely the Ferris wheel) with her new crush, not even coming by ''once'' to visit him alone. The next morning, when she and her family find out that Uncle, another pig, won first prize, Fern - instead of being terrified that Charlotte’s plan has seemingly failed - starts ''badgering her mother to give her money so she can go back to the fair,'' despite the ''very'' obvious poor timing ''and'' within earshot of Wilbur. When Wilbur and the family are called up to receive a special prize shortly after, Fern, instead of being overjoyed, ''doesn’t even care''- in fact, the second she sees Henry in the crowd, she nags her mother for money ''again,'' and outright bolts to find him the ''second'' her mother gives her the money and allows her to go, never giving Wilbur a second thought. She obsesses over a moment on the wheel with Henry well after the fair ends, and eventually stops coming to visit Wilbur as often out of a desire to “avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen”. So even though Wilbur’s saved by the end, and Fern still visits, she‘ll never have the same level of emotional investment in Wilbur that she did before, and they’ll never be as close as they once were.

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** And he’s ''right:'' by the time the county fair where Wilbur's life is saved for good rolls around, Fern’s begun to grow up, and shown in a far more jarring nature than in the movies. After she develops a crush on Henry, she ignores Wilbur - the pig she loved and raised - ''completely'' in favor of spending all her time riding the fair’s attractions (namely the Ferris wheel) with her new crush, not even coming by ''once'' to visit him alone. The next morning, when she and her family find out that Uncle, another pig, won first prize, Fern - instead of being terrified that Charlotte’s plan has seemingly failed - starts ''badgering her mother to give her money so she can go back to the fair,'' despite the ''very'' obvious poor timing ''and'' within earshot of Wilbur. When Wilbur and the family are called up to receive a special prize shortly after, Fern, instead of being overjoyed, ''doesn’t even care''- in fact, the second she sees Henry in the crowd, she nags her mother for money ''again,'' and outright bolts to find him the ''second'' her mother gives her the money and allows her to go, never giving Wilbur a second thought. She obsesses over a that moment on the wheel with Henry well after the fair ends, and eventually stops coming to visit Wilbur as often out of a desire to “avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen”. So even though Wilbur’s saved by the end, and Fern still visits, she‘ll never have the same level of emotional investment in Wilbur that she did before, and they’ll never be as close as they once were.
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** And he’s ''right:'' by the time the county fair where Wilbur's life is saved for good rolls around, Fern’s begun to grow up, and shown in a far more jarring nature than in the movies. After she develops a crush on Henry, she ignores Wilbur - the pig she loved and raised - ''completely'' in favor of spending all her time riding the fair’s attractions (namely the Ferris wheel) with her new crush, not even coming by ''once'' to visit him alone. The next morning, when she and her family find out that Uncle, another pig, won first prize, Fern - instead of being terrified that Charlotte’s plan has seemingly failed - starts ''badgering her mother to give her money so she can go back to the fair,'' despite the ''very'' obvious poor timing ''and'' within earshot of Wilbur. When Wilbur and the family are called up to receive a special prize shortly after, Fern, instead of being overjoyed, ''doesn’t even care''- in fact, the second she sees Henry in the crowd, she nags her mother for money ''again,'' and outright bolts to find him the ''second'' her mother gives her the money and allows her to go, never giving Wilbur a second thought. She obsesses over that moment on the wheel with Henry even months later, and eventually stops coming to visit Wilbur as often out of a desire to “avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen”. So even though Wilbur’s saved by the end, and Fern still visits, she‘ll never have the same level of emotional investment in Wilbur that she did before, and they’ll never be as close as they once were.

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** And he’s ''right:'' by the time the county fair where Wilbur's life is saved for good rolls around, Fern’s begun to grow up, and shown in a far more jarring nature than in the movies. After she develops a crush on Henry, she ignores Wilbur - the pig she loved and raised - ''completely'' in favor of spending all her time riding the fair’s attractions (namely the Ferris wheel) with her new crush, not even coming by ''once'' to visit him alone. The next morning, when she and her family find out that Uncle, another pig, won first prize, Fern - instead of being terrified that Charlotte’s plan has seemingly failed - starts ''badgering her mother to give her money so she can go back to the fair,'' despite the ''very'' obvious poor timing ''and'' within earshot of Wilbur. When Wilbur and the family are called up to receive a special prize shortly after, Fern, instead of being overjoyed, ''doesn’t even care''- in fact, the second she sees Henry in the crowd, she nags her mother for money ''again,'' and outright bolts to find him the ''second'' her mother gives her the money and allows her to go, never giving Wilbur a second thought. She obsesses over that a moment on the wheel with Henry even months later, well after the fair ends, and eventually stops coming to visit Wilbur as often out of a desire to “avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen”. So even though Wilbur’s saved by the end, and Fern still visits, she‘ll never have the same level of emotional investment in Wilbur that she did before, and they’ll never be as close as they once were.

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