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Templeton's farewell is a compact character portrait — three exclamatory inventories of appetite, a mock-courtly 'Fare thee well,' and a self-satisfied exit. Vocabulary words paradise, schemer, and vanished sit in three successive rhythms: pleasure catalogued, mockery aimed at Charlotte, and silent escape. Copying the passage lets a student feel White's use of exclamation-as-characterization.
The rat grinned. "I'm going to make a night of it," he said. "The old sheep was right - this Fair is a rat's paradise. What eating! And what drinking! And everywhere good hiding and good hunting. Bye,...
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Narration Prompt
Summarize Chapter 18 with attention to three movements: Templeton's errand and the word HUMBLE, the Arables and Zuckermans leaving Wilbur for the night, and Charlotte's quiet departure from her web to begin 'something for herself.'
Discussion Questions
- Charlotte chooses HUMBLE as her fourth and final word. She explains that it means both 'not proud' and 'near the ground.' Why is this double meaning the right climax for the sequence SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT, and HUMBLE?
- Templeton performs the errand, but the text shows him mumbling, sneering, and reminding everyone that he came to the Fair for himself. How does E.B. White use Templeton in Chapter 18 to define friendship by contrast with Charlotte?
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Became darker as natural or artificial light diminished.
Item 2
Noticed or discovered, especially something subtle or partially hidden.
Item 3
Restored to energy after rest; revived.
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