Little Fred Riding Hood: Red Banana (Banana Books)

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These various interpretations of „Little Red Riding Hood“ showcase the richness of the story and its ability to convey different meanings and messages to readers. The tale’s themes of innocence, deception, and caution continue to resonate with audiences today, making it one of the most enduring and well-known fairy tales in the Western literary tradition.

Such tellings bear some similarity to the "animal bridegroom" tales, such as Beauty and the Beast or The Frog Prince, but where the heroines of those tales revert the hero to a prince, these tellings of Little Red Riding Hood reveal to the heroine that she has a wild nature like the hero's. [43] These interpretations refuse to characterize Little Red Riding Hood as a victim; these are tales of female empowerment. The story had as its subject an "attractive, well-bred young lady", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood ends up being asked to climb into the bed before being eaten by the wolf, where the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending. SINoALICE (2017) is a mobile Gacha game which features Red Riding Hood as one of the main player controlled characters and features in her own dark story-line which features her as a brutally violent girl whose main desire is to inflict violence, pain and death upon her enemies as well as the other fairy-tale characters featured in the game.

Backgrounds to fairy tale „Little Red Riding Hood“

a b c Darnton, Robert (1985). The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-72927-7. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. She says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. Then he falls asleep. In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here. Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red Riding Hood had brought, and revived. But Red Riding Hood thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never leave the path by myself to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.' Anderson, Graham (2000). Fairytale in the Ancient World. Routledge. p.94. ISBN 978-0-415-23702-4. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021 . Retrieved 9 July 2017.

Rachel Nuwer (November 15, 2013). "There Are 58 Versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Some 1,000 Years Older Than the Brothers Grimm's". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved July 18, 2020.

Lon Po Po is an ancient Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood which won the 1990 Randolph Caldecott Medal for its watercolour and pastel illustrations by Young. Oh, you cruel creature,” said the huntsman, “I’ve found you at last! I’ve been seeking you a long time…” What a sight the huntsman saw! The wolf in Grandmother’s clothing and his enormous, scary mouth open wide with his noisy napping! Poor thing, poor thing,’ said Loki, ‘no wonder her eyes are glaring and staring. She has not slept for eight nights, so anxious was she to come to you and to your house, Thrym.’