My Whole 3rd Grade Class Became Vegetarian After Reading ‘Charlotte’s Web’

Kalea Martin
Life is Lit.
Published in
4 min readSep 23, 2020

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Children are like little sponges, and there’s no arguing that education opens minds. In the third grade, the novel Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White did exactly that, inspiring me and the rest of my 8-year-old classmates to become vegetarians.

Although it wasn’t E.B. White’s intention, the personification of the characters in the book…

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Kalea Martin
Life is Lit.

An editorial writer and linguist with a background in trade book publishing and a B.A. in Romance Languages & Literature.