Jerry's Little Red Riding Hood

3/3 Children Literature

The difference of fairy tale and folktale:

1. Fairy tale is usually full of fairies, talking animals, and magic; whereas folktale is the passed down stories about people and their lives by ascendants.
2. Fairy tales are often written fictions, whereas folktale orally passed by generations.

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One folktale can be written in many forms stories. Form the original story of Little Red Riding Hood, the little girl called neither “little red riding hood” nor “little red cap”. The wolf goes to her grandmother’s house, eats her up, and fills the bottle with grandmothers’ flesh and blood. When the girls comes, the wolf even asks her to drink her grandmothers’ blood and eat the flesh. In addition, the wolf order that she take off her clothes piece by piece and sleep with him. At the moment, the girls feels something wrong, and she outwits the wolf, asking for going out. From the original story we can find that it is quite realistic and unrealistic at the same time. In the world we live now, the wolf cannot speak; however, the bloody, brutal crime happens every seconds, and girls sexual abuse also occurs in every corner of the world. I think that children might learn a lot from the Grimms version of story. As an adult, we learn more from the original one. We can see killing people and sexual assault is a long history problem. As we acknowledge ourselves a developed or civilized country, we still never stop these kind of things from happening. With the comparison between Perrault’s and Brothers Grimm’s version, the biggest difference is the ending. Perrault’s ends with sadness; Brothers Grimm’s has a happy ending.

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My version of Little Red Ridding Hood

In Taipei city, a pair of twin girls called little red ridding hoods is so famous that everyone in the city knows them. Their mom releases their dancing video on Youtube before they know it will become a big hit. From then on, they are invited to many TV shows and will always be recognized by side walkers and strangers. One day, their grandma is too sick to take care of herself, so little red ridding hoods’ mom go to help their grandma. However, their mom forgets to bring medicine and bird’s net. She asks twins to bring them to grandma house. When they are heading for the house, a evil-hearted woman recognized them and start thinking about kidnapping these two little girls for ransom. She greets them and says “ hey cuties, I know you, don’t recognize me? I’m photographer in Tv shows!.” Both are confused because they never forget anyone’s face. “A mistake must be made or this is a terriblely designed fraud!!” these two murmured. Smart as they are, they asked her if the woman can go to grandma’s house with them. Absolutely, she agrees. She thinks that she wins their trust and has a chance to kipnap them; however, the little red riding hoods bring her a police office. The woman realizes the truth too late to escape. The little girls shout “Kidnapping! Kidnapping!” outside the office. Soon, the evil woman is immediately caught by police. The police priase two little girls, sends them to their grandma’s house safely, and tell their mom how smart and smart they are!