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Comparison Of Little Red Riding Hood And The Three Bears
“Little Red Riding Hood” and “ The Story Of Goldilocks and The Three Bears” are both part of Aesop’s fables. The girls in both stories make important and rash decisions that determine the direction that the story goes. In an Aesop’s fable the main character, usually learns an important lesson. In both stories the main protagonist is an animal. Lets see how these girls designs could have changed their lives.

The Girls possess many differences when it comes to their reasoning for what they are doing. Little Red Roding hood for instance goes into the woods to give her grandma some cakes. However Goldilocks goes into the woods because she has nothing better to do. Little Red decisions show that she is a little grown up because, she questioned
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