Little Red Riding Hood Comparison Essay

The differences between these two stories, I share in comparison with two good friends. In middle school I had two best friends who were twins. When I first met them, it seemed as if only their mother could tell them apart. They looked exactly alike, sounded alike, and even their personalities weren’t very different. But the more I got to know them, the more they began to sound, look, and even act different from one another. These “same” boys, both end up telling a different story. Here and there, and very seldom in life, I know I’ve read different versions of Little Red Riding Hood. We were acquaintances, and it always seemed like the same story being told. Red Riding Hood walked through the forest to grandma’s house, and got eaten by the …show more content…
With Perrault, children, especially pretty young girls, were being led to compare boys with wolves. The moral that followed the story was an almost direct instruction for “pretty girls” to not to mess with wolves, especially tame ones who, “Are the most dangerous of all.”(p.13). In other words, don’t trust a boy, even if he is charming.
The Brothers Grimm’s version, on the other hand, has a different moral for young readers to digest. Although this version has no moral to read following the story in the textbook, it was clearly evident in the last sentence while revealing the thoughts of LRRH after her encounter with the wolf, “Never again will you stray from the path and go into the woods, when your mother has forbidden it.”(16). In other words, listen to your parents or you may get hurt.
The biggest surprise was the moral of the story changing from don’t trust a man, to listen to your mother or you may get hurt. Both I believe to about dangerous boys though. But to me, it’s not the morals in general that I see the biggest changes. It’s the stories from different places in time, which show how culture changes. These are the stories that society has deemed suitable for children during a specific