The Three Little Pigs Essay

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The setting of ‘The Three Little Pigs’, while unique to the mind of the reader, is essentially the wilderness. The pigs collectively are raised in a household struggling with resources for basic needs, and the mother pig releases the young pigs to become adults and thrive on their own. They each are sent into the same environment with the same purpose. The atmosphere is one of both hope for the success of each pig individually and despair as you realize not all the pigs have made the best use of their resources and secured a solid future for them self.

Action and suspense begins to build in the story when the hungry wolf stumbles upon the home of the first pig and threatens to blow the house down. The reader knows that the home of the first

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