Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood

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Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood March 24, 2014 Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood The story of Red Riding Hood written by Charles Perrault in 1697 is used as a warning to young girls to be aware of their surroundings, to be careful what information you share with others, and no matter how nice someone is, they may be disguising their true self in order to take advantage of your innocence. The characters in the story are, Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf, and Grandmother. Perrault starts his story by telling us about “a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen”, (Clugston, 2010). Her mother tells her to take cakes and butter to her grandmother because she is not feeling well. Along her journey through the woods, she meets a wolf, who asks where she is going and why. Red tells him exactly where grandmother lives. He, the wolf, then tells Red that he would go too, but he would go another way and see who gets the first. The wolf arrives first, and fooled the grandmother into thinking it was Little Red Riding Hood at the door. She allows him entrance and he immediately eats her for he is hungry. When Red finally arrives, the wolf disguising himself as the grandmother, tells her to put food down and climb into bed with “her”. As soon as Little Red Riding Hood climbs into the bed, she notices the differences in her “grandmother” and remarks in them. When she gets to how big grandmother’s teeth are, the wolf’s reply is “All the better to eat you up with” (Perrault, 1697) and then he gobbles her up! The theme in this story is to not talk to strangers and to be aware that people can hide their true self from you. Red talks to the wolf in the woods, telling him exactly where she is going and ends up getting eaten for it. The fact that Little Red Riding Hood wears a red hood, which can mean many different things. According to Bill Delaney in his
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