" (Amidon). With this passage, White helps parents and educators that children can understand even the saddest things in life, even if they cannot understand or tolerate things like injustice. Wilbur is similar to the children that White targeted as readers. When Wilbur realizes that he cannot save Charlotte's life or even be with her in death, he takes a step to ensure her immortality. He pesters Templeton to help him, and he retrieves Charlotte's egg sac and takes it back to the barn. Once Charlotte's eggs hatch, Wilbur is excited to meet her children, hoping to find the type of friendship he had with their mother. However, Wilbur is again reminded that friendship is different, and that he saved the eggs for Charlotte, rather than for himself, when almost all of Charlotte's children leave the barn. However, some of them, like Wilbur, are runts, and are too weak to follow their siblings....

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