The Fear Between the Wolf and the Good Girl Fear is what lies behind the thought of a killer’s eyes. In the story of Little Red Riding Hood there is no other theme could be expressed stronger than this, even from the very beginning. The story was designed to terrify children to keep them away from strangers, and to show them the evils of the world. The message of do not trust strangers is pretty clear in the plot of the stories. Most versions of the story seem to have a young, said to be attractive girl. However her age is usually never told in the story. The first story I read by Paul Delarue called “The Story of Grandmother”, it’s a very rushed and very focused story of the fear of speaking to strangers. Typically in stories, the strangers …show more content…
However the danger is far from over. The girl than asks to goes to the bathroom, the wolf allows her too, but ties a string to her foot preventing her from going to far. Little Red Riding Hood escapes to the comforts of her home by tying the string that was on her foot to a plum tree. Possibly escaping her life, or her innocence. As quoted on page thirty-three of Folk and Fairytales on the last paragraph of the story; “When he became aware that no one answered, he jumped out of bed and saw that the little girl had escaped. He followed her, but he arrived at her house just as the moment she was safely inside”. This is also reinforcing our nature of home being the safest place we can ever go to, as well as this wolf being able to process at a high functioning …show more content…
Her grandmother made her the red hood she wears, the hood worn by the young girl so often that everyone calls her Little Red Riding Hood. This also shows a direct approach of saying wolves are horrible creatures as quoted on page thirty-three in Folk and Fairytales, “As she walked through the woods, she met a wolf, Who wanted to eat her but did not dare to because there were woodcutters working nearby”. This quote shows that the Red’s only defense right now was the woodcutters nearby, which is what stopped the wolf from eating