THE ART AND EDIFICE OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: A PERSPECTIVE WITH REFERENCE TO E.B.WHITE’S CHARLOTTE’S WEB

Abstract

Literature is a mirror of life as it helps the people to know various aspects of life. The current generation is growing up in the midst of a moment of rapid, dramatic and societal change. Children's literature is important because it helps them develop their personalities and social skills. Children's books may help them grow into compassionate, clever and pleasant persons throughout their formative years since they are so impressionable. Children's literature gives a writer a wider scope and freedom to impress, mould and guide the budding buds of tomorrow. Elwyn Brooks White was a writer from the United States who has written numerous successful children's books, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Charlotte's Web is an amazing classic and it inadvertently gives the readers a glimpse into rural American life in the late 1940s. This paper focuses on the meaning of true friendship, love, life's adventures, miracles, death, trust, betrayal, sorrow and the passing of time in Elwyn Brooks White’s Charlotte's Web.