A Short Story : Little Red Riding Hood

I’m little red riding hood’s grandmother, it’s nice to meet you. Be quick and settle in because I am about to tell you the untold, never heard before story on what actually happened in the famous fairy-tale ‘Little red riding hood’.

The wolf easily distracts her, showing, once again, her naivety and innocence. After the wolf shows up and eats the grandmother, Little Red arrives. Her mother instructed her not to look in all the corners when she arrived, and so, even though she was scared, she did what she was told, and the wolf swallowed Little Red and falls asleep. A wandering woodsman hears the snoring and enters the house to see what is wrong. He discovers the wolf and, instead of shooting it, cuts it open and gets Little Red and her grandmother unharmed out of the wolf. He sends Little Red off to get big stones, which he uses to fill the wolf?s belly. The wolf wakes up and attempts to run away, but the stones are too heavy, and he dies. After this experience, Little Red learned that she needed to heed her mother?s warnings, which shows that she has grown through her experiences with the wolf, and knows to listen to her mother. The story continues with another wolf coming across Little Red on her way to her grandmother?s house, but, having learned from the first wolf, Little Red is able to outsmart and kill him.

The folk tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” has numerous variations and interpretations depending on what recorded version is being read or analyzed. “Little Red Cap,” by the Grimm Brothers, and “The Grandmother,” as collected by Achille Millien, are different in numerous ways: the depth of the narrative structure, characters involved, length – yet, the moral lesson is largely unchanged between the two versions. One of the more glaring differences between the two versions is the way that the narrator and the actions of the characters are used to describe the young girl, female, and the wolf, male. Being either female or male are matters of biological makeup. The characteristics of femininity and masculinity that are associated with being

Just how are you going to catch her?” In a similar way, Perrault’s version of the tale states that Red “did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf.” The authors both use personification of the wolf to better their use of pathos. By making the wolf more like a person than an animal, it insinuates

Throughout history, women have been portrayed in a variety of ways; by following a popular story that has been rewritten several times over the years, we can see this progression. “Little Red Riding Hood” was first written in 1697, and since then has been in a constant state of evolution and change (Elmore). We will be looking at the 1697 version of “Little Red Riding Hood” and comparing it to newer versions; this will give us a chance to see how attitudes towards women have changed over the years. So that we don’t confuse the different characters, we will explore “Little Red Riding Hood” one story at a time.

When alone with her children, she began to think of how amazing it would be when she sees her grandchildren being the top ones walking the earth. She imagined how all animals of all around had to beg them for refuge, for they will be the aptest at survival. These thoughts caused the creature great joy as the creature was watching over her children. Then, her mind was abrupted by a howl. She then proceeded to hide her children and see what was it that caused the howling noise. As she expected, it was the wolf. Next, a long stare between the two occurred. Finally, she started

She was no more than nine years old, a tiny, fragile creature. She wore what appeared to be rags sewn together, and they were no protection against the biting wind. She huddled up against a tree, seeking warmth that wasn’t there, and her teeth began to chatter. It was a foreign sound to the wolf.

Little Red Riding Hood is responsible for her action and to do what she was told by her mother to take the cakes to grandma house. Little red is also brave to walk through the forest all alone and had the courage to do it. Little red wasn't always paying attention to the fact when she got there to grandma house she thought that she say her grandma but it was really the wolf she grandma doesn't have a hairy body, big nose, big feet, big ears but Little red taught me a life lesson. Little red also had to leave the danger in her book if she didn't it wouldn't end well for her so then yet again she ran or she screams and runs for getting help for the ranger that had warned her from the wolf and the strangers.

In her transformation of the well-known fable "Little Red Riding Hood," Angela Carter plays upon the reader's familiarity. By echoing elements of the allegory intended to scare and thus caution young girls, she evokes preconceptions and stereotypes about gender roles. In the traditional tale, Red sticks to "the path," but needs to be rescued from the threatening wolf by a hunter or "woodsman." Carter retells the story with a modern perspective on women. By using fantasy metaphorically and hyperbolically, she can poignantly convey her unorthodox and underlying messages.

Later on, we are introduced to the wolf, who represents men as a threat to women. The wolf symbolizes a man, who can be a lover, seducer or sexual predator. When Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf, he wants to eat her but is too afraid to do so in public, for sometimes there are woodcutters watching. He instead approaches the young girl with the intention of seducing her, and she “naively” tells him exactly where she’s going. He then suggests for her to pick some flowers, which she of course does. Not only does she stop to talk to the wolf, but she completely forgets about her sick grandmother as well as her promise to her mother, in order to satisfy her own desires. “Little Red Cap had run after flowers, and did not continue on her way to grandmother's until she had gathered all that she could carry” ( ). Little Red Riding Hood clearly demonstrates the behaviour of an Id driven personality. She is bound up

HI. Duc Nguyen Pham. I could not remember the story of your choice, Little Red Riding Hood. However, your post helped me to remember the overall story of the fairy. Most wolves are regarded as villains in the children fairies. For another example, in Three Little Pigs, the wolf also is regarded a villain and interrupts the three pigs to achieve their goals. However, the ending is always the villains lose. So, these stories teach that greed always causes negative outcomes to children. Your idea of that the wolf is a trickster is right. But, I think the wolf can be a villain also, because the wolf threatens and tries to make the little girl to fail.

The operation was given the go-ahead and following ingress into said forest she attained interface with an indigenous element of unknown threat. Extensive training led to recognition of indigenous element as a wolf. The wolf inquired as to Little Red Riding Hood's intent and destination, making no attempt to conceal his curiosity regarding the contents of accompanying parcel -- one basket.

Little Red:(enters through right stage) Hello wolf Wolf: Why are you out in the woods this early in the morning? Little Red: I’m off to my grandmother’s house.

Conversely, Orenstein maintains that, by focusing on only the historical dimension of the tale as opposed to its larger social context, Darnton misses vital elements of the tale’s broader themes as well as the changes which occurred in the transition to the male-dominated written tradition. Orenstein begins by noting the wide breadth of oral cognates to “Little Red Riding Hood” which had been discovered across Europe and in Asia (Orenstein 69). Citing the work of folklorist Paul Delarue, she establishes that “Charles Perrault - whose 1697 text is the presumed source of the Grimms’ “Little Red Cap” - had dramatically revised the original folk tradition” (Orenstein 71). Most significantly, Orenstein observes - and criticizes Darnton’s lack of observation - that when authors began to put these stories onto paper, “the sense of female authorship - literally, female authority” (Orenstein 83) disappears from their tales. Fundamentally, Orenstein advances an interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood as a hero story whose “heroic heroine” (Orenstein 82), her cleverness, and most significantly her triumph over evil have all but vanished from the popular literary tradition.

“So, uh, where are we going?” the man asked with flickers of excitement and unease.