Mount Hood

IT’S A WOLF “We should make a music video,” Anna suggested. “Why not? I mean we have nothing else to do...” I responded. “You guys do look pretty bored. You should come to the creek with us,” Henry interrupted. Anna and I exchanged looks. We didn’t particularly like the creek. It could be scary sometimes. And the sun was starting to set. “I’ll go,” Anna said. I didn’t want to be alone, so I agreed to go with her. I had no idea what was about to happen. We walked to Mape Park, which as…

Paper #1 – Little Red Riding Hood In The Classic Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim states that Little Red Riding Hood’s failure to fight back or to resist in any way led him to declare “that the girl must be stupid or she wants to be seduced” (4). Similar statements have been used to describe rape victims for many years, regardless of their actions and appearances. In many versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”, Little Red has been described by authors as “a pretty village girl” and “a dear little…

Throughout the book “Scarlet”, the author added quotes from the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairytales. After doing extended research trying to find out which tale these quotes had come. Sadly, only one quote was exactly how it was written in the fairytale, “She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.”This quote is partially from the book Scarlet but is as well apart of the fairytale “Little Red Cap” written by none other than Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.…

grandmas House through the woods has been passed down from generation to generation. The Tale of the little red riding hood has been around for centuries for young disobedient children. According to what was considered socially acceptable or wise behavior, The story has undergone some descendant changes in both a social and political standing. The story of the “Little Red Riding Hood” is descendent of an early tale by German Folklorist Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The early version written by the…

Fairy tales and folk myths have a long history of being told to children as bedtime stories for many of generations, and as the tales get told time and time again different variations and versions of these stories have emerged. A prime example of this is Angela Carter’s book “The Bloody Chamber and other stories”. Carter has created multiple new stories from classic fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White” allowing her to inject her own modern twist and interest in gender…

Disney film. It opened my eyes to the real reason behind the stepmother’s hatred that I never would have believed to be a theme in the story and many others. Another story that I really enjoyed understanding and learning about was Little Red Riding Hood, originally known as Little Red Cap. Before digging deeper into the meanings of the symbols throughout the story, they just blew over my head. I never thought that the girl’s cape was made red for a reason and I never would have thought…

relieve myself.”(Delaure 33.) As a result, the little girl applies her intelligence and then heads off the danger eaten by the wolf. The story shows the little girl process of growing up from pure to mature. The happy ending with the little red riding hood’ safe return back to her home also shows her discernment and wisdom that makes up his naivety at the beginning of the stories. Exactly as Bettelheim claims, the heroine side of the Delaure’s story tries to guide the children how to deal with…

girl losing their virginity and seeing the wolf, this is the most obvious form of symbolism in the story of the Little Red Riding Hood. The symbols used in the story are her “red hood” that was given to her by her mother and the “woods or forest” that she needs to walk through, to get to her grandmother’s house where she lives on the other side of the village. The red hood that was given to her symbolizes the adulthood of women. At the time this story was written, red was often a symbol for…

Two of the easiest poems in this collection to find the feminist message in are “Cinderella” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Sexton takes these two timeless tales and picks out the ways in which they cause readers to condescend women. She does this deftly and magically in these poems and provokes deep thoughts on the ways women are portrayed in the original tales. Sexton does her best to take the focus of her poem “Cinderella” off of how ugly the step-sisters and move it to how black…

fairy tales. To follow, some examples of Little Red Riding Hoods’ transformation into the modern world will be highlighted in order to help grasp why fairy tales transformed with assistance from the mass media age, which took hold in the Victorian period, and finally conclude by examining the forms of entertainment which modern society now associate fairy tales as being a part…