Read the following passage about first impressions from page 41.
Charlotte stood quietly over the fly, preparing to eat it. Wilbur lay down and closed his eyes.
He was tired from his wakeful night and from the excitement of meeting someone for the first
time. A breeze brought him the smell of clover—the sweet-smelling world beyond his fence.
“Well,” he thought, “I’ve got a new friend, all right! But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte
is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her,
even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?”
Wilbur was merely suffering the doubts and fears that often go with finding a new friend. In
good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte. Underneath her rather bold
and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.
Let's Discuss the passage. Consider the questions:
• Did you ever have an experience like this, in which you thought of a person as mean or strange or scary at first, but later found out that he or she was very nice?
• Can you learn to like someone you originally disliked? How?
• What do you think the speaker means by “What a gamble friendship is!” (p. 41)? How can friendship be a gamble?
• What happens when people draw conclusions based on first impressions?
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