Blog Assignment #1

I read "The True History of Little-Golden Hood" by Charles Marelles. The first reason was that the tittle caught my attention and second was the fact that it said "True" and was "Little-Golden Hood" instead of the normal "Little Red Riding Hood".


The first thing i found interesting was that instead of having a red hood she had a "wonderful little cloak with a hood, gold-and-fire colored" and was given to her by her old grandmother which was said to "bring her good luck, for it was made of a ray of sunshine". Another thing i found interesting was that the grandmother was "considered something of a witch". The wolf starts off by trying to seem friendly and innocent to the girl so she wouldn't be scared off, which in class we discussed how the wolf could have been a metaphor for a "man". After the wolf got LGH to open up to him and she told him where she was going the wolf took off to beat her, but the difference between this story and others was that the grandmother was not at home so it was easier for him to just walk in and set up to trick LGH. Unlike other version of this story the wolf said "and then take off your frock and come and lie down by me" the wolf was telling the little girl to get naked then go lay with him after. So of course her thinking it was Grandmother she did as she was told but left her hood on. Something else that i found interesting was when LGH told "grandmother" that she looked like "friend wolf" yet still stayed in bed with her...but I would have to say that my favorite part was when wolf went for the kill, the golden hood was cursed and protected LGH from the wolf and it burned his mouth and throat. But in the very end Grandmother came and saved LGH by throwing the wolf into a well and the wolf then died. The moral im sure is like all the others, dont talk to strangers.!


I believe that for internal conflicts it starts in the beginning when the wolf first spots the little girl and wants to go straight to eat her but instead ends up waiting. "He had seen the child start alone, and the villain was waiting to devour her; when at the same moment he perceived some woodcutters who might observe him, and he changed his mind. Instead of falling upon Blanchette he came frisking up to her like a good dog".