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    Female, fairy tale characters are often introduced as vulnerable and submissive: per the "Little" in the title "Little Red Riding Hood", or the naivety of Snow White eating an apple from a stranger in the woods. These defining traits, along with the traditional expectation, that women are "scientifically and historically" meant to run the household (Goucher 579), are all seen throughout a vast array of fairy tales. "The Gunnywolf", retold and illustrated by Antoinette Delaney in 1988, is a fairy

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    stories you heard in the name of Little Red Riding Hood are all misunderstood and exaggerated. They were probably about how I tried to eat the little girl who goes by the name Red but, that’s not the truth, or I came to the grandma’s house to eat her and Red. Most importantly they were written in a perspective to make me look like a bad wolf, which I’m not. Today, you’ll read about what actually happened and, why I ended up at the old lady’s house. When I was a little pup, my home was destroyed. There

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    First Tale' versions of 'Little Red Riding Hood' differ many ways in telling, but, deep down, they have similar morals. The Brother's Grimm 'Little Red Riding Hood' is very straightforward. A mother sends her daughter off to her grandmother's house with wine and other treats. Little Red Riding Hood's mother warns her to stay on the path. On the way to her grandmother's, Little Red Riding Hood strays off the path and finds herself face to face with a wolf. Little Red Riding Hood goes back onto the path

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    Comparing Little Red Riding Hood folktales is a multi tasks operation, which includes many elaborations on the many aspects of the story. Setting, plot, character origin, and motif are the few I chose to elaborate solely on. Although the versions vary, they all have the motif trickery, the characters all include some sort of villain with a heroin, the plot concludes all in the final destruction or cease of the villain to be, and, the setting and origins of the versions vary the most to where they

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    Little Red Riding Hood is a book I would use in second-grade as part of the Common Core standards for recounting fairytales or folktales and determining the message or moral. It would be beneficial to read this traditional version of the story to the students and then the Chinese version, Lon Po Po, by Ed Young. I would have the students write a letter to Little Red Riding Hood explaining what she should watch out for the next time she visits grandma’s house. This would be a creative way to have

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    There once was a little girl named Lucinda that everybody loved. Lucinda was so sweet and pretty, but loved the most by her maw-maw. There was nothing in this world that her maw-maw would not do for her. Lucinda’s maw-maw bought her a red hoodie and Lucinda loved it and wore it all the time, even if it was not cold. She wore her hoodie so much that everybody started calling her Little Red Riding Hood. One day Little Red Riding Hoods mother told her that her maw-maw did not feel well and told

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    “Little Red Riding Hood” by Trina Schart Hyman is an enchanting version of the Brothers Grimm story of a little girl’s journey through the woods to deliver goods to her sick grandmother. This illustrated story introduces characters in such an imaginable way feeling almost as if you’re in the story and being part of that suspenseful expedition. Although in most fairy-tale versions of the story we don’t get the characters actual names; we depict them through physical appearances. An adolescent girl

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    Little Red Riding Hood” is a European fairy tale about a young girl and the big bad wolf with origins that can be traced back to the 17th century. There have been many different interpretations written of the story. “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault and “Little Red Cap” by Brothers Grimm are just two of the many contrasting renditions. The two tales are similar, but they are also different. The variations of the story translate the same lesson to be learned at the end. Amongst various

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    Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were the authors that shaped “The Little Red Riding Hood” into what we know in modern literature. Angela Carter, on the other hand, flipped the original message made by both authors upside down. Each of the three authors uses one common theme of trusting strangers too much is dangerous. However, Carter’s version challenges that theme by showing the wolves having human moments. And these themes can be explained by the culture that was written in. However

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    In comparing the versions of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, a common element of moral disobedience shines through, causing the death of many female characters. In the versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” and Brother Grimm “Little Red Cap”, the young girl strays from the path to her grandmother’s house and gets eaten by the wolf at the end of the story. While for Brothers Grimm the little girl directly disobeys her mother, Perrault’s reasoning is

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