Brooke Wohlford

Childrens Literature
LSW: Little Red Riding Hood
October 16, 2014
Perraults version of Little Red Riding Hood is different from any other version I have
read. It was also unsatisfying for many reasons: it was not developed, it had an unhappy ending,
and the moral was bluntly stated. Perraults version was different from the others in Folk and
Fairy Tales because it did not contain any detail. Throughout this version it was mainly
dialogue; the setting, feelings and thoughts of characters could have been showed through details
but were not. This version did not have developed events; it would jump from one event to the
next and the reader would not know how they went from one place to another. Another reason it
was different from the other versions, the ending itself is dissatisfying. Both the grandma and
granddaughter were eaten by the wolf and not saved by a hunter. Another reason this version was
dissatisfying was the Moral paragraph at the end. The reader gets the moral from a sentence
already written in the story: the poor child did not know how dangerous it is to chatter away to
wolves, the reader does not need to be told twice. In the other versions the moral of the story is
shown and not told, which is more satisfying.