Who Is The Wolf In The Story Of The Three Little Pigs

Outsmarting your enemies is key to defeating them. The third pig accepts this challenge when interacting with the wolf in “The Story of the Three Little Pigs”, a tale about three pigs leaving their homes and starting new lives. Each pig finds materials to build a new house. One pig makes a house out of straw; the second pig makes a house out of furzes, and the third pig makes a house out of bricks. When the wolf comes along, he manages to destroy the first two houses and eat the pigs. However, when the wolf goes after the third pig, he is unable to destroy his house or eat him. Defeating and eating the wolf, the third pig proves himself the most admirable as he possesses the character traits of resourcefulness, cleverness, and inventiveness.
First, the third little pig’s resourcefulness makes him admirable. When the little pig leaves his home and starts a new life, he is lucky to meet a man carrying excellent building material. “The third little Pig met a Man with a load of bricks and said, ‘Please, Man, give me those bricks to build a house with’; so the Man gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them” (10). Here this pig proves himself both fortunate and savvy, fortunate in coming upon someone bearing sturdy building material and savvy in being shrewd enough to realize that the bricks will fortify his dwelling, …show more content…
In “The Three Little Pigs” the third little pig is admirable as he proves himself resourceful, cunning, and inventive; he is resourceful when he retrieves the bricks from the man and uses them to make his house sturdy, cunning when he tricks the wolf by telling him he will meet the wolf at a certain time but going earlier, and inventive when he uses the butter churn to scare away the wolf. These three traits make the third little pig admirable and help him escape the wolf a number of times during the story. When dealing with enemies always recall how the little pig dealt with