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Fern

posted 16 years ago by jaym8377
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I found this OnDemand and I hadn't seen it in maybe a decade. I remembered it being very sad though. However, it was exeptionally sad this time. I remember Fern being a much bigger part of his life throughout the movie until the end. But after I watched it again, it seems their love and their bond just drops after she sells him. It passes several days before we see her go to visit him at the new farm and even then, she barely talks to him or treats him like she used to. And then at the end, when she just runs off with Henry without saying goodbye to him... To me, Wilbur's dying relationship with her is one of the saddest aspects of this movie.

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[–] SadakoGirl 14 years ago

I know what you mean. I know it's a normal part of life, as Charlotte points out, but it did feel very abrupt. And I figured she'd come back and visit him once in a while after the fair, but she didn't. It does sort of make sense. Wilbur's matured a lot more and doesn't need to depend on a parent figure--whether it's Charlotte or Fern. And he is in a way a parent figure himself to the little spiders who stay.

It's still a bit sad.

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[–] wilsonandrewc 10 years ago

Did you also know that Fern was the only one who could understand the animals?

[–] Samuraibro 9 years ago

His relationship with her isn't dying. She's growing up and she has a life outside of Wilbur.

[–] Samuraibro 9 years ago

His relationship with her isn't dying. She's growing up and she has a life outside of Wilbur.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2376) a year ago

It's much worse in the book, in which Fern runs off to ride the ferris wheel with Henry before Wilbur even gets his medal. In the movie Fern and Henry watch the medal ceremony and join in a parade in honor of Wilbur--much better!