LIFE OF A FANCY WORLD
Biography
Early life and career
E.B.White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921.He picked up the nickname \"Andy\" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White.While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with clamate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times.White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI).He wrote for The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and worked for an advertising agency before returning to New York City in 1924.He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six decades.Best recognized for his eays and unsigned \"Notes and Comment\" pieces, he gradually became one of the most important contributors to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.He also served as a columnist for Harper\'s Magazine from 1938 to 1943.He excelled as a writer of light verse, as can be sampled in his \"The Fox of Peapack and Other Poems\" in 1928.
Children\'s books and Elements of Style
In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children\'s fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White.His first child\'s book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte\'s Web appeared in 1952.Stuart Little received a
lukewarm welcome from the literary community at first, due in part[citation needed] to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children\'s librarian from the New York Public Library.However, both went on to receive high acclaim, and in 1970 jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.That same year, he published his third children\'s novel, The Trumpet of the Swan, which in 1973 received the Sequoyah Award[citation needed] from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award[citation needed] from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year.
In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style.This handbook of grammar and language style for writers of American English had been written
and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White\'s profeors at Cornell.White\'s rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005.That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book.The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition claes.
White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine.He was buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.[2]
Awards
In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole.Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.《夏洛的网》，一首关于生命，友情，爱与忠诚的赞歌！一部傲居“美国最伟大的十部儿童文学名著”首位的童话！
在美国大作家E.B.怀特的笔下，蜘蛛夏洛用蜘蛛丝编织了一张爱的大网，这网挽救了小猪威尔伯的生命，也让我心中多了许多感动。
小猪威尔伯原来可是一只不起眼的落脚猪，还差点惨死于阿拉布尔先生的斧子下。逃过一劫的威尔伯后来和蜘蛛夏洛建立起了真挚的感情，可是好景不长，威尔伯未来的命运却是成为熏肉火腿，作为一只猪，威尔伯只能悲痛绝望地接受这命运了。但作为好朋友的夏洛却坚信它能救小猪，它吐出一根根丝在猪栏上织出了被人类视为奇迹的网上文字，这让威尔伯在集市上赢得了特别奖，和一个幸福的未来，小猪终于得救了。
这种友谊是单纯的，是真挚的，也是幸福的。小猪威尔伯因为有和夏洛的这段友谊，是他免于成为熏肉火腿，在夏洛死后，小猪威尔伯细心地照料，使得夏洛的后代得以延续。
这段友谊是纯洁的，也是无私的。为了一句诺言，夏洛为威尔伯无私的奉献，她把毕生的精力都给予了威尔伯，到死的那一刻，她也无怨无悔、不求回报。在现实生活中，已经很难找到如此的真诚，尔虞我诈充斥着我们的生活。蜘蛛夏洛教会我们坚持的美、坚守的一生。
在生活中，友谊是多么的珍贵。在我困难的时候，多亏朋友的帮助让我度过难关。当我有什么东西忘带时，他们总会义不容辞地借给我,而我和朋友之间总是会多一份宽容，少一分争执。友谊让我们获得了快乐，所以我们应当好好珍惜友谊。最后，夏洛的生命却走到了尽头。在冬天的一缕暖风中，威尔伯送走了夏洛的子女。
生命是严肃的，是毫不留情的，死亡也是如此。夏洛的死绝不是一场悲剧，她的生命走到了尽头，但她的一生是圆满、善良、朴实的。伴随在那声“再见”和那已经飘零的蛛网，她永远活在威尔伯的心中，也活在了我的心中。Plot
One spring, on a farm in Maine, Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) learns that her father plans to kill the runt of a litter of newborn pigs.She succefully begs him to spare its life.He gives it to her, who names him Wilbur and raises him as her pet.To her regret, when he grows into an adult pig, she is forced to take him to the Zuckerman farm, where he is to be prepared as dinner in due time.Charlotte (Julia Roberts), a spider, lives in the space above Wilbur\'s sty in the Zuckermans\' barn; she befriends him and decides to help prevent him from being eaten.With the help of the other barn animals, including a rat named Templeton (Steve Buscemi), she convinces the Zuckerman family that Wilbur is actually quite special, by spelling out descriptions of him in her web: \"Some pig\", \"Terrific\", \"Radiant\" and \"Humble\".She gives her full name as \"Charlotte A.Cavatica\", revealing her as a barn spider, an orb-weaver spider with the scientific name Araneus cavaticus.
The Arables, Zuckermans, Wilbur, Charlotte, and Templeton go to a fair, where Wilbur is entered in a contest.While there, Charlotte produces an egg sac.She cannot return home because she is dying.Wilbur tearfully says goodbye to her but manages to take her egg sac home, where hundreds of offspring emerge.Most of the young spiders soon leave, but three, named Joy, Aranea, and Nellie, stay and become Wilbur\'s friends.Friendship
I often wonder what friendship is.Friendship is too big a topic to talk about either specifically or generally.I gue most of us are still in a puzzling state about what friendship is, and I myself should be included.Maybe people who define friendship according to his own life experience will say that they have a good concept of friendship, which I think is too narrow to get an objective definition of it.But how hard it would be to talk about friendship without mixing personal feeling in it, especially when it comes to the matter offriend.So here I would like to share my views with you about friendship, about my closest friend.I have had friends since I was born, some of whom have come along with me through my life, and it is impoible to always keep your friends around you since departure is one part of life that everybody must experience.Though some of you may oppose me by exaggerating the connotation of the concept of being together that is friends may not stay together physically but they can stay together always psychologically, I still hold that departure is an absolute thing.How could it be poible that your friend (even your closest friend) always keeps you in heart as he/she had, is having a
nd will have different experiences from yours? Somehow different experiences make up of different hearts.Man’s heart is a quite strange thing.Never think that one can wholly touch it.Sometimes our heart is so abstract that you don’t even know how to get to them.If we take heart as a cube, and closest friend a gentle breeze, this breeze can only blow one facet of this cube from one direction and can rarely reach any other sides of your heart.I’m not sure whether I have put it very clearly but believe me that there are no fixed closest friend in your life.With different time, place, space, emotion and situation, you have different closest friends.When I play basketball, I have a closest friend who knows how to cooperate with me and together give our opponents a deadly attack; when I am alone and feel so lonely, I have a friend who can always comfort me by saying that he is my friend; when I am in need of money, the one who comes all the way and lend his money to me without any hesitation is my closest friend; when I am proud and a friend dares to stand out to warn me that I should keep modest, he is my closest friend; and, when I read Old Man and the Sea, I think Hemingway is my best friend.You see then, how many closest friends I have.But I must say, though I always want to keep all of them in my heart, they are not actually always in my heart.They have their own friends and their own life.Winston Churchill once said that there’s no perpetual friend, nor perpetual enemy, only perpetual interest.I gue he’s right in some way.Personally I think it is a shame for people who take a pet as his closest friend as this is a sheer insult to human being and an absolute indignity for the word .If a dog is his closest friend, what is human to him? You can imagine how would a person with his closest friend do to PEOPLE.And maybe sometimes a dog can give him mental comfort, but what a dog likes best is just a bone.Friendship is indeed an inborn desire of mankind, and it is relationship between people, not between people and animals.If you seek friendship, please seek it from people, from people around you .Actually I have much more to say but… your criticism welcome.
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