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"Little Red Riding Hood in a Different Perspective"

Innocence isn't merely defenselessness; you can lack knowledge but still be capable to protect yourself. Some people simply assume that since a young girl appears innocent that she is also naпve and therefore easy to be taken advantage of. This is clearly illustrated in the stories, "Little Girl and the Wolf" and "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf."

"Little Girl and the Wolf" tells the tale of a little girl who encounters a wolf on her journey through the forest. The wolf assumes her destination is her grandmother's house and when the girl is questioned, she tells the wolf in detail of her grandmother's exact address. The wolf scurries away to reach the grandmothers house before the little girl arrives. Once the wolf reached his destination, he entered the house and devoured the old woman. The wolf did not eat the old woman's night clothes, as he thought they would be useful to make a disguise to fool the little girl. Once the little girl found her way to her grandmothers' house, she entered and proceeded to her grandmothers' bed. She immediately noticed that it was not her grandmother that was lying in the bed, but it was the wolf that she had met previously in the forest. The little girl, conscious of the danger that she could have encountered, came prepared and drew her gun from her basket of food that she was to deliver to her grandmother. The courageous girl shot the wolf in effort to save her own life.

The next story "Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf" is a story that proves that girls are not naпve, but intelligent and independent. The difference between this story and the first one is that it does not begin with a little girl walking through the forest; it begins with a hungry wolf who supposedly already knows of this little girl and her grandmother's residence. The wolf already assumes that the girl will be visiting her grandmother, so he rushes to the house in effort that Little Red Riding Hood will not arrive before him. His plan is to outsmart the little girl and disguise himself as her grandmother to make it easier for him to consume her. Once the wolf knocked on the grandmother's door, she opened the door and was instantly eaten by the starved wolf. His intelligence led him to save her outerwear as a disguise to fool the little girl. Later, when she arrived at the house, her intuition told her that something was different then the other times she visited her grandmother. Like any other Little Red Riding Hood, she questioned the wolf, whom she thought was her grandmother, however she left out one question and substituted it for a question concerning his fur coat. This upset the

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