Fill in the blanks with the proper word(s). Summary of Charlotte's Web One morning at the breakfast table, eight year old Fern sees her 1. _______ leave the house with an 2. _______ and asks her mother where he's going. Her mother delivers the shocking news that Mr Arableis going out to 3. _______ a runt that was born the night before. Fern chases her father down and persuades him to spare the runt, telling him that it is unjust to kill a piglet just because it is small. Moved by his daughter's plea, Mr Arable decides to give the runt to her to look after. Fern names the piglet Wilbur and looks after him like a 4. ______, pushing him in her pram alongside her doll and feeding him with a bottle. At five weeks old Mr Arable insists that Wilbur is sold and he goes to live in the Zuckerman barn down the road. Wilbur initially struggles at the barn because he misses Fern so much but soon he becomes acquainted with new friends, the best of whom is a lady gray 5. ________ called Charlotte. Wilbur is fascinated by Charlotte, although to begin with he is slightly suspicious of the way she catches her food - he doesn't like the idea that she spins bugs in her 6. ______ and sucks their blood. He soon realizes that Charlotte is everything but cruel and bloodthirsty and that her method of eating is entirely necessary for a creature like her. Wilbur is complete happy during the summer days - 7. _______ comes to visit and his new friend tells him exciting stories and has the patience to try and coach him about how to 8. _______ a web (although she knows fine well he will never be able to) but one day he gets some terrible news that puts an end to his carefree attitude. The 9. ______ tells Wilbur that Mr Zuckerman is fattening him up for Christmas dinner and Wilbur is distraught - he is so happy on the farm and doesn't want to die. Charlotte calms him down and promises him that she won't let him be 10. ______. She hasn't worked out how to save him yet, but she is determined that she will. One morning as 11. ______ pours Wilbur's slops, he notices Charlotte's twinkling spider web in the morning fog. The words '12. ________' have been weaved into the web. Lurvy is gobsmacked and utters a prayer. He quickly tells Mr Zuckerman who is equally amazed and soon the news spreads near and far. Worried that people may be getting bored of the words, Charlotte asks Templeton the 13. _______ to aid her in finding more words to write in her web. Knowing that if Wilbur is killed he won't have access to his slops, Templeton reluctantly scavenges for newspaper clippings to help Charlotte. The next word she writes is '14. ______' and after that, '15. ________.' Meanwhile, Mrs Arable is concerned that Fern is spending too much time down at the barn and becomes even more alarmed when her 16. ______ tells her about Charlotte and the stories Charlotte tells. Mrs Arable decides to go and see Dr. Dorian to ask him what he makes of Fern thinking the animals can 17. ______ and what he makes of the mysterious writing in the web. Dr Dorian is very calm and rational and says that the real miracle is not the writing in the web but the fact that a spider instinctively knows how to build a web without any 18. _______. He says that it is quite possible that animals can talk and that the reason that adults cannot hear them might be because they talk too much to 19. ______ what is going on in nature. With the news of Zuckerman's famous pig spreading, the Zuckermans and Arables decide to take Wilbur to the County 20. _______. At the fair, Charlotte is disappointed to see that beside Wilbur's pen is a much larger spring pig called 21. ______. Knowing he is fierce competition, Charlotte decides to spin another web and once again Templeton is sent off to find a word. Before nightfall Charlotte weaves her web with the new word '22. _______' written into it and throughout the night she makes her egg sac. In the morning the Zuckermans and Arables see the web but they also notice that Uncle has a blue tag on his pen - he has already won 23. _______ prize. Mr Zuckerman ignores the tag and tells everyone to buck up and give Wilbur a 24. _______ bath. Everyone who comes to Wilbur's pen has something good to say about him. Suddenly, over the loudspeaker a voice is heard asking Zuckerman to bring his famous pig to the judges' booth for a special award. Wilbur is awarded a 25. _________ for being phenomenal and completely out of the ordinary and Mr Zuckerman is given $25. Since the writing first appeared in the web, the miracle has been on everyone's mind. After the press photos and the commotion, Wilbur is returned to his pen. Wilbur notices that Charlotte is quiet and looks unwell. She tells him that she is content now that she knows he is safe - she knows Mr Zuckerman will never harm him now, but she tells Wilbur that she is failing and will 26. ______ in a day or two. Panicked and distraught Wilbur races around the pen, begging Charlotte to come home with him, but she hasn't enough 27. _______ to move. Wilbur decides to take Charlotte's egg sac and promises Templeton first choice of his slops if he retrieves the sac. As Wilbur carries the 28. _______ in his mouth and is led into the crate, he winks at Charlotte and she musters all the energy she can to wave goodbye. The next day, as the Ferris wheel is being taken apart, Charlotte dies. Back at the Zuckerman’s, Wilbur is given a noisy welcome home. He waits patiently for the 29. ______ of Charlotte's children and often looks longingly at her empty, broken web. When her children are finally born, Wilbur is distraught to see them let out loose clouds of fine silk that carries them far away on the breeze. Three of Charlotte's children stay in the 30. _______ with Wilbur, however and become his good friends. Year after year new spiders are born to replace the old but no one ever replaces Charlotte in Wilbur's heart.