Little Red Riding Hood: Compare and Contrast

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The film Little Red Riding Hood from 1997 directed by David Kaplan begins with Little Red Riding Hood skipping through the woods in search of her grandmother’s house in order to deliver some bread and milk. In the story by Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood carries butter and cake rather than bread and milk. In the film, Little Red chooses between the path of pins and the path of needles. In the story by Perrault, the wolf decides to go the opposite way of Little Red but the paths are not described as pins and needles. In the film, Little Red Riding Hood escapes her fate by tricking the wolf into thinking she needs to use the bathroom. In the story by Perrault, she falls victim to the wolf and becomes lunch. The stories share few similarities once Little Red enters her grandmother’s house. In both stories, the wolf devoured grandmother. The wolf also asks Little Red to undress herself and get into bed with him in both stories. Little Red and the Wolf also go through the same back and forth about her grandmother’s new look in both stories. The film Little Red Riding Hood from 1997 and the Brothers Grimm adaptation of the story also share similarities and differences. In the story by the Brothers Grimm, the traditional name of Little Red Riding Hood was instead Little Red Cap. Unlike the film, in the story by the Brothers Grimm, Little Red Cap’s mother directed Little Red Cap to take a piece of cake and a bottle of wine to her grandmother in the woods. She specifically warned her not to stray because she might fall and break the glass bottle. In the film she carries bread and milk and wasn’t given this advice from her mother. In the story by the Brothers Grimm, Little Red runs into the wolf and instead of asking her which path she’s taking like in the film, he tries to distract her from her path by telling her to pick some flowers for her grandmother. In both

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