Blog Response #1

Question 1:

I read the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles. The reason I choose this version because the tittle caught my attention since it said "True" and it turned out to be quite interesting. I also chose this version because in this version the things that we talked about in class are more or equally backed up in the text. What interested me about this version was that first of all the little girl in the story wasn't called Little Red Riding Hood and she didn't wear a Red hood. Instead, her name was Little-Golden Hood and she wore a "wonderful little cloak with a hood, gold- and fire-colored," given to her by her grandmother which was said to  be "made of a ray of sunshine". I also found it interesting that he mentioned her name to being Blanchette, which to be sort of represents that she is pure, like what we talked about in class. It also caught my attention that when we said that the wolf might be a "man"was backed up in this version because the wolf calls himself a "Friendly wolf" and behaves himself around Little-Golden Hood like a "Good dog". From those two quotations we can infer that this man is working hard to get to LGH by being a gentleman, friendly, and acting with courtesy, making him look like Prince Charming. Of course we can't leave out that he asks her to "take off your frock and come lie down by me," which we can all agree on sounds a bit erotic for a grandmother to ask of her grandchild. I find it very intriguing that in this version it is the grandmother who rescues LGH, "Just at this moment the grandmother arrives, returning from the town with her long sack empty on her shoulder.
'Ah, brigand!" she cries, 'wait a bit!' Quickly she opens her sack wide across the door, and the maddened wolf springs in head downwards. It is he now that is caught, swallowed like a letter in the post. For the brave old dame shuts her sack, so; and she runs and empties it in the well, where the vagabond, still howling, tumbles in and is drowned.
'Ah, scoundrel! you thought you would crunch my little grandchild! Well, tomorrow we will make her a muff of your skin, and you yourself shall be crunched, for we will give your carcass to the dogs.'Thereupon the grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed." I feel as though the grandmother rescuing LGH and moving hastily to clothes on her, thus asking her "without my little hood where would you be now darling?" as if asking LGH what she would do without her innocence. 

Question 2:

After reading the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles I have come to one important conflict in the text and that is that LGH is in some kind of denial within herself. LGH first makes the mistake of not trusting her instincts when she meet the "friendly wolf" whom "she did not know in the least" and replies, "You know me, then!". She also makes the biggest mistake when she trust wolf in telling him where her grandmother lives when he asks "and where does she live, your grandmother?". In modern times this is like telling everyone on Facebook that you'll be gone from 6-8 so they can come and trash your place and take anything you want! Who does that, seriously! Anyway back to the text, I also noticed that LGH asks all of these idiotic questions like "how like you are to friend wolf" and all of the "Oh! What a _____ you've got Grandmother!" She's seen her grandmother a million times and she doesn't know the difference between her and the wolf? Really? Luckily for her, her grandmother rescues her in the end.