The Little Red Hood (or Cap) is a classical fairy tale that was written by the Grimm brothers, Charles Perrault and some other writers. T is about a lovely little girl who lives with her mother. One day the child was sent to her sick grandmother who lived in a remote cottage. The Little Red Hood met a wolf who found out about her destination, distracted the girl and went to the grandmother’s house to fulfill his own evil goals. The story has several moral messages. Most of them are for the main character or Little Red Cap (Hood). The main focus of this moral is that children should obey their parents and shouldn’t speak with suspicious (or any) strangers. Girl’s mother said she should behave herself and need to go straight to the grandmother’s house. But Red Cap broke her word when she spoke with the wolf and told him everything about her grandmother’s weak condition and the place of living. The old woman showed the same level of carelessness. The grandmother was quite reckless for an owner of a house that was “a half hour from the village” (Grimm), when she left the door unlocked and let the wolf in without any hesitation. The moral of the story is the carelessness has dangerous consequences. It is true for the mother, who sent a little girl along through the woods, it is true for the Little Red Cap, who readily started a dialogue with the wolf; and it is true for the grandmother, who did not act in accordance with her dangerous living conditions. The more realistic story should have a different ending.
Little Red Cap followed the advice and went to gather beautiful flowers. Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.
“Who came to visit me?” the old voice asked from the house. The wolf grinned to himself, he understood it will be an easy job.
“It is me, grandmother, your Little Red Cap,” the predator said with the thinnest and most childish voice he could make.
“Come in, dear. The door is open. I am too weak to get up and let you in,” the old woman continued. The wolf did not wait for the additional invitation. He opened the door and faced a large double-barreled gun. The predator mentioned a fragile woman in the bed behind the weapon after few seconds.
“My granddaughter knows the right knock pattern,” the grandmother said calmly. “I am not so stupid to keep doors open without any precautionary measures.”
The wolf recovered from the first shock and mentioned woman’s hands were shaking intensely. He smiled to the grandmother:
“Dear lady, how do you think to shoot me with such a bad aim?”
“I have a large-caliber birdshot here. I need only to point the gun to the right direction, the shot will do everything else,” the woman said and pressed the trigger.
Little Red Cap was a little late, but she hoped to compensate it with her bouquet. The girl used the right knock pattern and pushed the door; but the grandmother’s voice stopped her:
“Do not come, my dear, it is a mess here. I believe you were a reason of this trouble. You should go to the village and ask the furrier and a cleaning lady to visit me. The blood covered the whole hall, and I believe there is enough wolf’s fur to make you a nice pair of mittens and a cap. It will help you to get rid of this nickname”.
Little Red Hood nodded and went to the village. She felt sorry she endangered her grandmother, but she was happy because of her potential present. And the girl knew her grandmother will like flowers she gathered on the wolf’s advice.
Works Cited
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Little Red Cap”. Pitt, http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#grimm. Accessed 31 Jan. 2017.
