23: Charlotte's Web - Jessica of Deconstructing Damsels
F***bois of Literature Book Podcast
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The Little Boy Pig and Spiders Live a Year
"I was looking for something to be controversial about this book," she says. "There's nothing like people can mine controversy out of this book, where they're like, oh, the female spider, she dies for the little boy pig." She adds that Charlotte loves Wilbur because he's there and because that's what you're supposed to do in order to save him. But fern and her brother are just like, familiar expectations, an eight-year-old girl and a ten year old boy. 'If i j century, i mean, like, if i thayd thing, she's crazy'
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