E.B. White’s purpose for the chapter “The explosion” was to build suspense for the plot. It started out as Charlotte resting calmly in her web trying to figure out other ways to save Wilbur’s life. She realized that humans were very gullible and since summer was coming to an end she had to come up with a plan, and fast. The chapter ended with Charlotte still at work trying to figure something out even after everyone had gone to bed, leaving all the barn animals unsure of her next move. This chapter was to build suspense because in the beginning E.B. White explained how Charlotte had to come up with this big master plan then throughout the whole chapter didn’t bring it back up again until the end. But, even in the end we still were unaware
