connecting annotations for charlottes web!!!

"Charlotte tore quite a section out of her web, leaving an open space in the middle. then she started weaving something to take the place of the threads she had removed. when templeton got back from the dump, around midnight, the spider was still at work."
i wrote- Charlotte give up so much for wilbur!

it's true. Charlotte spends all of her time, it seems, trying to save Wilbur's life. she tears out sections of her web, spends ages of time and work writing, and probably doesn't catch as many flies as she usually would have, because her web is all messed up. she tries to save his life until she dies. this seems to happen throughout the whole book.and something that really annoyed me was that Wilbur never really thanked her. if anything, he was more demanding. for example, when Wilbur is going to the fair, he asks Charlotte to come with him even though she is getting ready to lay her eggs, and she doesn't feel well. she says

"'oh, i just don't feel like leaving my web. too much going on around here.' 'Please  come with me!'  begged Wilbur. 'i need you Charlotte. i can't stand going to the fair without you! you've just got to come!'"

I mean really! We shouldn't be too harsh on Wilbur, though. he is just a kid. and he really does like Charlotte. and the reason why she was such a good friend is explained in her dying words. when Wilbur asks why Charlotte did all those things for him.

"'you have been my friend' replied Charlotte 'and that in itself is a tremendous thing. i wove my webs for you because i liked you. after all, what's a life anyway? we're born, we live a little, we die. a spiders life can't help being something of a mess with all this trapping and eating flies. but helping you, perhaps i was trying to lift my life a little. heaven knows, any one's life can stand a little of that.

this really touched me. it was not just a reason, it was a philosophy. and it's so true. giving your life a purpose can make it very successful.   

Charlottes Web idea expanding: why is she so smart?

If I can fool a bug" thought Charlotte, "I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs."
Charlotte's web, page 67, chapter ten.
I wrote -Charlotte is so smart!
Charlotte is so smart!! she seems to know everything, from scientific facts to philosophy. But how does she know it? it just occurred to me that we barely know anything about Charlotte. where did she come from? how does she know so much? how old is she? we get the general impression that she's older, and therefore wiser. her age and knowledge contrast and keep in check Wilbur's youth and how naive he is. but another interesting question is, why didn't i ask all the questions above when i was first reading it? I think that i didn't ask those questions because i accepted Charlotte as the mentor character.
in every narrative there is a mentor character, a Dumbledore for every harry potter, a Jiminy cricket for every Pinocchio. they are the ones who know everything. they don't come from places, they're just there. I've always just accepted them as being old and wise and nice. but now I'm more curious. Why does Charlotte help Wilbur? is she just being nice? doesn't she have more important things to do? or is she doing it because she really is friends with Wilbur? the one that makes sense the most is the last one. especially since this is a book for little kids, so sometimes people (or anthropomorphised animals)  go to extremes for friendship. It's interesting tough, to look at Charlotte's and Wilbur's friendship. they barely ever talk about her, always about him. he seems like a pretty hard person to be friends with. so why is Charlotte friends with him? maybe she doesn't like to talk about herself. maybe she likes other people -and other people's problems- to distract her from herself and her own problems. even if this is right, there is still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding Charlotte