I picked "The True History of Little Golden-Hood" to write about. This one is quite different from other because the girl had a gold colored hood instead of red. The gold color could represent her innocence or naiveness. Another thing that is different in this version is that the wolf does not eat the Grandmother because she is out. The Grandmother ends up catching and throwing the wolf in a well, where he drowns. At the beginning of the story, Little Golden-Hood's mother told her not to talk to anyone she doesn't know. Then she runs into the wolf, who she doesn't know, and talks to him because he knew who she was. He even says that he is her friend, saying that he is "Friend Wolf". In this version, Wolf could be a metaphor for a man trying to take advantage of a girl because he tells Little Golden-Hood to remove her clothes and climb into bed with him.
A conflict that I noticed in this story was with the Wolf. He wants to eat Little Golden-Hood but he doesn't want to get caught. So he comes up with a plan to pretend to be the Grandmother that she is going to see, he dresses up and lies on the Grandmothers bed. When he tries to eat Little Golden-Hood, her hood burns him and saves her, then the Grandmother comes and throws him in the well. One thing that I found interesting was that Little Golden-Hood had no issues with stopping to tell a stranger where she was going or with taking her clothes off and getting into bed with her "grandmother" who look a lot like the Wolf.
Another conflict could be with Little Golden-Hood. She asks all these questions like "Oh! what a big tongue you've got, Grandmother!" to her Grandmother that she should know. Shouldn't she realize that there is something off about her?
I totally agree with your post. I also read this version and I especially agree with the internal conflict withing LGH. As i mentioned in my post, I believe that her internal conflict is that she is in denial.
ReplyDeleteIf indeed her gold hood does represent innocence and the gold hood ends up being one of the key componets in saying her life than maybe the moral of the story is that beholding innocence is life saving. If you are reading this story to young girls than this would be one attempting in changing their minds and trying to have them remain innocent.
ReplyDeleteI also read this version. I have a very similar internal conflict. And I completely agree! He made a couple of decisions within himself.. all to what ending biting in biting him in the butt. But i do agree with the internal conflict within LGH, she knows the grandmother doesn't look like herself, and that she looks very much like Friend Wolf. But the naive little girl puts it aside, which almost got herself killed if it wasn't for the hood and her grandmother.
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