Theme and Narrative Elements of a Short Story
Theme and Narrative Elements of a Short Story
Racheal Cearney
ENG 125: Introduction to Literature
William Smith
6/17/2011
The short story I choose to write about is in chapter 7 ‘’Little Red Riding Hood’’ The story revolves is based on a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, after her mom had made her a little red hooded or cape the village people had start calling her that. In the story little red mom had ask her to go over her grandma house to check up on her. Little Red walks through the woods to deliver so food to her sick grandmother. So has she walks thought the woods a big wolf spots her, the wolf wants to eat the little red but is afraid to do it in public. The wolf approaches Little Red Riding Hood and she naïvely tells him where she is going. The wolf suggests that she pick some flowers for her poor sick grandma which she does. So in the meantime the wolf runs off to her grandmother 's house and gains entry by pretending to be little red. He jumps on her and swallows the grandmother whole, and waits for little red, disguised as the grandmother. So when little red had finally arrived, she notices that she looked very strange to be her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood then says, "What big hands you have!" The wolf says better to hug you with my dear. Then Little Red Riding Hood said, "Oh my what big teeth you have! So then the wolf replies, "All the better to eat you with," and swallows her whole, too.
Most of the illustrations the fairy tale can be remade to many key scenes like when Little Red Riding Hood had appropriate finger-wagging from her mother from the meeting with the wolf in the woods and the wolf in her grandmother disguise the discourse between little red and the wolf. Each image is so strongly attached to the text that the meaning is implicit, and even enhanced as direct way in which the images communicate with the reader. The familiarity of a fairy tale fundamentally undermind the visual recognition as the
Racheal Cearney
ENG 125: Introduction to Literature
William Smith
6/17/2011
The short story I choose to write about is in chapter 7 ‘’Little Red Riding Hood’’ The story revolves is based on a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, after her mom had made her a little red hooded or cape the village people had start calling her that. In the story little red mom had ask her to go over her grandma house to check up on her. Little Red walks through the woods to deliver so food to her sick grandmother. So has she walks thought the woods a big wolf spots her, the wolf wants to eat the little red but is afraid to do it in public. The wolf approaches Little Red Riding Hood and she naïvely tells him where she is going. The wolf suggests that she pick some flowers for her poor sick grandma which she does. So in the meantime the wolf runs off to her grandmother 's house and gains entry by pretending to be little red. He jumps on her and swallows the grandmother whole, and waits for little red, disguised as the grandmother. So when little red had finally arrived, she notices that she looked very strange to be her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood then says, "What big hands you have!" The wolf says better to hug you with my dear. Then Little Red Riding Hood said, "Oh my what big teeth you have! So then the wolf replies, "All the better to eat you with," and swallows her whole, too.
Most of the illustrations the fairy tale can be remade to many key scenes like when Little Red Riding Hood had appropriate finger-wagging from her mother from the meeting with the wolf in the woods and the wolf in her grandmother disguise the discourse between little red and the wolf. Each image is so strongly attached to the text that the meaning is implicit, and even enhanced as direct way in which the images communicate with the reader. The familiarity of a fairy tale fundamentally undermind the visual recognition as the
References: Clugston, R. W. (2010). Journey into literature. San Diego, Bridgepoint Education, Inc(Chapter 7) Maria Tatar, p 25, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales