Blog Post #1

Question #1:I chose to read "Little Red Cap" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. I decided to read this version of "Little Red Riding Hood" because the title wasn’t exactly the original title and I wanted to read something that was a little different context and a different point of view. One of the main things that I thought was intriguing about this particular piece was that the story had an ending-like finality about it resulting in "A huntsman was just passing by. He thought it strange that the old woman was snoring so loudly, so he decided to take a look. He stepped inside, and in the bed there lay the wolf that he had been hunting for such a long time. "He has eaten the grandmother, but perhaps she still can be saved. I won't shoot him," thought the huntsman. So he took a pair of scissors and cut open his belly." And the three of them were safe from the wolf, but then it also goes on to have a little epilogue ending at the end. "They also tell how Little Red Cap was taking some baked things to her grandmother another time, when another wolf spoke to her and wanted her to leave the path." I thought it was nice having that last little ending to sort of tie the story together and shows that Little Red Cap learned her lesson in the end because it was different than some of the other versions we discussed in class.
 Question #2:In the version of "Little Red Cap," an obvious external conflict was her interaction with the wolf. When Little Red Cap and the Wolf have their first encounter, the Wolf tries to lure Little Red Cap to sort of go off course so that he can get to Grandmother's first. For instance, he says, ""Listen, Little Red Cap, haven't you seen the beautiful flowers that are blossoming in the woods? Why don't you go and take a look? And I don't believe you can hear how beautifully the birds are singing. You are walking along as though you were on your way to school in the village. It is very beautiful in the woods." This is a big external conflict because Little Red Cap does indeed go deeper into the forest to pick flowers which gives the Wolf enough time to get to grandmother's to eat her and eventually Little Red Cap as well. There wasn’t much internal conflict within this version but one small internal conflict I noticed was when Little Red Cap reached her grandmother's house and saw that the door was open and started to get a weird feeling. For instance, "She walked into the parlor, and everything looked so strange that she thought, "Oh, my God, why am I so afraid? I usually like it at grandmothers." She had a gut feeling that something was not right in her grandmother's house and yet, as little of an internal conflict as it was, she decided to go into the house anyways even though her instincts were telling her "danger!"

Sydney Witt