Charlotte's Web Conflict: Types and Solutions, What are some conflicts?
Suzanne has a PhD in instructional systems design.She teaches literacy courses to preservice and inservice teachers.
Conflict occurs when two people are fighting.The conflict makes a story interesting.If the main character in a story wants to win a contest and the author just writes about how easy it was, the story wouldn't be very interesting to read.The story becomes more interesting if the main character has a hard time winning the contest.
External conflict and internal conflict are two types of conflict found in stories.There are conflicts in Charlotte's Web.
A law or belief can keep a character from meeting his goal in an external conflict.
Fern finds out that her father is going to kill her brother because he is small and weak.
If I had been small at birth, would you have killed me?She's a girl, not a pig, and her father says he wouldn't have killed her.Fern says, ''This is the most terrible case of injustice I have ever heard of.''
Fern doesn't want to go along with the tradition of killing runty animals on a farm.In Charlotte's Web, this is very important.If Fern had not challenged society's way of doing things, Wilbur would have been killed as a baby and the rest of the story wouldn't have happened.Fern saves Wilbur and raises him from a weak runt to a pig that is big enough to be sold so that he can become a famous pig.
Charlotte, the spider, is determined to save Wilbur from being killed by Mr. Zuckerman in an example of external conflict.One character is fighting another character.
Charlotte weaves words into her spiderweb to trick humans into thinking she is special.Zuckerman and the other humans look at Wilbur in a different way because she weaves the words "SOME PIG," "TERRIFIC," and "RADIANT" into the web.
It seems like a miracle that words have appeared in a spider's web, and they begin to think that he is very special.Charlotte goes to the fair to help him.Charlotte is safe when he wins a special prize.
A character battles himself in internal conflict.The character does not have confidence.
The internal conflict in Charlotte's Web is Wilburbattling against himself - his lack of confidence almost keeps him from getting what he wants.Wilbur is a weak little pig who lets everyone else make decisions for him.Charlotte is writing words in her web.He gets more confident.By the time Charlotte has written the word ''RADIANT'' in her web, Wilbur is famous and tries to actradiant for the people who come from all over to see him.
The solution to the conflict is shown at the fair when Charlotte is dying.He persuaded the rat to help him take Charlotte's egg sac back to the farm.The man has changed.He has become strong and confident and is no longer a shy little pig.
External conflict and internal conflict are the main types of conflict.There are external conflicts over saving Wilbur in Charlotte's Web.Wilbur struggles to develop his own confidence.
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