Charlotte's Web Issue: Spiders

Spiders are scary. This past winter I was crushing boxes at the Flower shop where I work and found a Black Widow spider crawling beside my foot. It had a perfect ruby red hourglass upon its back. I'd only seen A Black Widow once before. That time I was wearing flipflops and was around 9? Maybe 10? It scared the living bajeezes out of me (yes, I know bajeezes is not a word). In case you were wondering this time I was wearing my brown Sebago loafers. Thank buddha. There was a dilemma of killing it or letting it survive and kill somepoor unsuspecting dog. So, I got a cup shoved the spider in with a pen and carried the spider outside to the storm drain outside the shop. Where I promptly threw it in and hurried away to check for more black widows. There were none. How does this relate to Charlotte's Web? Well it's a spider story as is Charlotte's Web only... the Charlotte sounded like such a kind spider and her death made me cry. It was interesting how E.B. White gets the audience to care about something they normally wouldn't notice or if they did notice, be very frightened of. That strikes me as similar to the case of Stuart Little. He's a mouse, she's a spider, seriously, isn't that awesome? His ability, I mean? He makes you care only as the best of authors can.