Fairy tales have changed dramatically throughout the years. Think of a well-known fairy tale that you grew up with… Now think about how many different versions of that fairy tale you have seen or heard over the years… One of the first fairy tales that I remember is Little Red Riding Hood. The first version of this fairy tale was written in 1697… however since then the story has been retold many times with each author using different plots, settings, themes, characters and techniques to retell the in a different way to the original.
Little Red Riding Hood is about a beautiful yet innocent girl who meets a wolf in the forest. The wolf deceives the little girl – red riding hood – into giving him information about herself and where she is going. …show more content…
A book in which Dahl gives his own twists on 6 well known fairy tales including Cinderella, Jack and The Bean Stalk, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs and of course Little Red Riding Hood. In each fairy tale there is a surprise ending and in the case of Little Red Riding Hood there is no happily ever after but this time for the wolf.
In Dahl’s version the plot revolves around the wolf and his desire for food with Dahl changing the angle of the original story so that the wolf is the main focus instead of Little Red Riding Hood. In this version the wolf wants food, he goes to the grandmother’s house and eats her but he is still hungry so he waits for Little Red Riding Hood. When she arrives they converse and instead of the wolf eating Little Red Riding Hood she shoots the wolf.
Dahl has written the story as a poem using rhythm, rhyme and humour thus making it more entertaining and appealable to children of all ages. The poem begins with the wolf and the grandmother but in this version unlike Perrault’s the main character roles are reversed with Red Riding Hood being the hunter and the wolf the victim as “Red Riding Hood “whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature’s head and bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.” Then in an ironic twist the story ends with Little Red Riding Hood wearing a “lovely, furry Wolf skin
Little Red Riding Hood is about a beautiful yet innocent girl who meets a wolf in the forest. The wolf deceives the little girl – red riding hood – into giving him information about herself and where she is going. …show more content…
A book in which Dahl gives his own twists on 6 well known fairy tales including Cinderella, Jack and The Bean Stalk, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs and of course Little Red Riding Hood. In each fairy tale there is a surprise ending and in the case of Little Red Riding Hood there is no happily ever after but this time for the wolf.
In Dahl’s version the plot revolves around the wolf and his desire for food with Dahl changing the angle of the original story so that the wolf is the main focus instead of Little Red Riding Hood. In this version the wolf wants food, he goes to the grandmother’s house and eats her but he is still hungry so he waits for Little Red Riding Hood. When she arrives they converse and instead of the wolf eating Little Red Riding Hood she shoots the wolf.
Dahl has written the story as a poem using rhythm, rhyme and humour thus making it more entertaining and appealable to children of all ages. The poem begins with the wolf and the grandmother but in this version unlike Perrault’s the main character roles are reversed with Red Riding Hood being the hunter and the wolf the victim as “Red Riding Hood “whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature’s head and bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.” Then in an ironic twist the story ends with Little Red Riding Hood wearing a “lovely, furry Wolf skin