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    As I am doing my own version of Little Red Riding Hood, I made Mr. Wolf the victim of this world’s cruelty in my story. Mr.Wolf became very nice to Red Riding Hood, because the kind hearted little girl gave him some meat and a milk, when he is in the verge of starvation. So, Mr. Wolf helped Little Red Riding Hood to find the closer way to grandma’s little cottage. He went first, and leaved a mark (idea from hansel and Gretel ☺), so that the little girl can follow. Mr. Wolf found the cottage, but

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    typical children’s story “Little Red Riding Hood”. There are many differences in Carter version then the older stories, but at the same time they are very similar. All of the stories are about a little girl with a red cape going to her grandmother’s house, who lives in the middle of the woods. As she is walking to her grandmother’s house, she encounters a hungry wolf. She tells the wolf where she is going, then the wolf goes ahead of her, eats the grandmother and then eats Little red. Some of the differences

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    Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most well known fairy tales. It has been retold many times by many different people. I will be comparing two versions of this story. One is by the famous Brothers Grimm and the other is a TV show called Once Upon a Time. In the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood, she is walking to her grandmothers house through the woods when she encounters the wolf. Also, the wolf is sneaky and cunning. He talks to Red to learn where her grandmother lives so he

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    Fairy tales are often retold and revamped to make them more relatable to a new audience. Little Red Riding Hood is a story that has found itself retold many times. From her being saved by a huntsman in Grimm’s Fairy Tales to her being completely devoured and never heard from again in Perrault to warn children of the danger of those who may be perceived as kind but are truly cruel. For Angela Carter it is an adult revamp on a childhood classic. Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” is the story

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    Little red riding hood, Told in the hunter 's point of view Little red and scarlet By: Esmeralda Zapata I huff, looking at myself in the mirror shrugging I walked over to my closet grabbing a fresh pair of clothes. The black ripped skinny jeans and the old baggy flannel was perfect for a little hunt in the woods today. I tie my combat boots and look myself in the mirror groaning at the state my hair was in. I brush my silver hair into a ponytail before grabbing my weapons and heading out. I decided

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    As we look back on the history of fairy tales, we find that they are stories passed down to generations through the oral tradition that generally include a moral or pervading theme that is meant to aid the listener. One characteristic of oral stories are the variations that often occurred with each retelling as a result of errors in translation and interpretations, as well as changes driven by the storyteller’s desire to share a particular point of view with the listener. A modern twist on these

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    intentional. This shifting nature predicates the textual integrity of the tale, allowing it a pertinent and germane makeup, built upon its didactic nature. This significance is especially apparent in the appropriations of ‘Aladdin’s Lamp’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Aladdin’s Lamp, 1704, was included in Antoine Galland’s translation of Arabian Nights., however, it has a status as a disputed orphan tale, bearing its origins vaguely from an 1115 manuscript

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    Is Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood Relevant to the Modern World? A story commonly spread through word of mouth, Charles Perrault wrote an early rendition of Little Red Riding Hood in 1697. Between the late 17th century and today, there have been a few changes in societal norms, customs, and understandings of social values. To summarize, laws based on religion have given way to laws based on science…in turn, scientists have taken their newfound social power and discovered ways

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    Little Red Riding Hood tells a story of a young and innocent girl, who was sent to look after her grandmother by her mother, however, she was distracted by the wolf and fell into the wolf’s trap, as a result, both her and her grandmother was eaten by the wolf. The story ends in a way which the readers may not anticipated, because most readers expect fairy tales to have a happy ending. In the beginning of the story, Charles Perrault created this character little red riding hood as an extremely lovable

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    In the poem, Little Red Riding Hood, Olga Broumas depicts women are able to define themselves as independently as other male individuals by using natural differences between the two sexes. In her book Beginning with O, Broumas takes up the role of the oral narrator, one of that being Little Red, by tailoring the narratives depending on the story she wishes to tell or the audience she wishes to address. The tone of this particular fairy tale in which Broumas recreates is distressing in that she presents

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