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    The once innocent moral tale used to teach little girls a lesson has developed into many convoluted adaptations that apply some of modern societies most problematic issues. Both the Perrault and Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood both point out the consequences of straying of the path. While Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf having eaten the innocent little girl‚ Grimm’s Little Red Cap has a hero who swoops in to save her and grandma. The movie‚ Freeway (1996) directed

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    Rotkäppchen‚ Little Red-Cap‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ there as so many different names for this story and this character. Just as the villain in Little Red’s tale has been called a wolf‚ a werewolf‚ and in NBC’s television show Grimm‚ it is even called a Blutbaden. This children’s fairy tale has been rewritten in screenplays‚ stage plays‚ books‚ songs‚ and poetry. But no matter what the characters are called‚ or how the story is presented‚ it all comes back to the original tales that was written by

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    They are many books‚ poems‚ short stories and novels‚ throughout history that usually start off with onomatopoeia‚ or an introduction to the main character. For example Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood would most often conclude with a happily ever after fantasy or a ride into the sunset. But One Summer and The Death of a Government Clerk are the complete opposite. In these two stories both characters went through a major unresolved conflict that never resulted in a happy ending but instead a

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    a Time…’ bedtime story to spellbind each little soul; casting them into a sanctuary of dreamworld fantasies. I myself was once a fool for fairy tales. I followed Hans Christian Andersen into the fathoms of the ocean and swam with mermaids; climbed down a high tower along Rapunzel’s hair; danced merrily with Snow White and the dwarfs‚ witnessed the miraculous metamorphosis of the Swan Princess and strolled into the woods with the Little Red Riding Hood. Fairytales had me helplessly mesmerized.

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    The story of Little Red Riding Hood and the underlying meaning may be surprising to readers because none would expect for the original story to have sexual and even biblical analogies. The Grimm brothers’ version of this fairytale uses symbolism to uncover the true meaning behind the girl and her red cap. In the beginning‚ a “sweet little girl” is given a red hood by her grandmother. The hood‚ covering her head‚ symbolizes her youth. However the bold red color implies that this young girl is soon

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    Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale that has changed much in its history. Being more commonly known as a fairy tale‚ it may be considered a children’s story‚ however‚ it contains in it‚ themes of sex‚ violence and cannibalism. It is a multi-voiced‚ multi-cultural tale that has been told and retold‚ suffering endless plots‚ character transformation and reinterpretation. The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud created many theories on how people are and why they do the things they do. Freud’s three key

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    Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood is a short story narrated in the third point of view about a girl walking alone in the forest and a bad wolf who is trying to eat her. The introduction of an animal as a character makes this story what is known in the literary world as a Fable. A little girl‚ who always wears a red cap‚ is told by her mother to take a basket full of food to her sick grandmother. She lives in the woods and the girl is told not to leave the path but go straight to granny’s

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    thinks outside the box when talking about Little Red Riding Hood and all the other different versions that have been written. Bettelheim explains how Brother Grim’s story‚ Little Red Cap had become one of the most popular fairy tales. Perrault is then introduced where each story begins like all other well known versions such as how the grandmother had made her granddaughter a little red riding hood or cap. This part of the story led to the little girl’s name. We learn that Perrault

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    the original writings. The Grimm Brother’s version‚ “Little Red Cap”‚ had some of the same variants and perspective story bits as the original writer Perrault’s version of the Little Red Riding Hood‚ with a slight twist of redemption and changing of the moral of the story. The Grimm Brother’s version shows the readers how they adapted the story in their perspective and how they evolve the story into today’s writings. The Little Red Riding Hood fable has been passed down to the next generations‚ with

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    For my Rhetoric-In-Practice (RIP)‚ I decided to write fracture fairy tales on "Hansel and Gretel"‚ "The Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Ugly Duckling". I take upon the role of Rory Madden‚ an experienced children’s author promoting his newest book The Modernize Collection of Fairy Tales on his website. In my book‚ each fairy tale is revamped to target a modern audience and to address a specific issue with children and modern technology. My collection of fairy tales targets two audiences‚ my primary

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