Compare And Contrast Little Red Riding Hood

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Many different variations of stories have been released before and out of all the differences there was always one thing that stayed the same overall: the plot. In the short story, “Little Red Riding Hood” by James Marshall, Red is heading over to her sick grandma’s house and meets a wolf on the way who was planning to eat Red and Grandma. Similarly, in the Chinese short story, “Lon Po Po” by Ed Young, the three sisters, Shang, Tao, Paotze get tricked by a wolf who was pretending to be their grandma. Both stories shared similarities in plot including the characters and the main elements. Preliminarily, both stories shared similarities in plot by having most of the main plot elements. For example, during the falling action of both stories the wolf gets killed. The wolf gets killed by the hunter killing him and in “Lon Po Po” the wolf gets killed by falling of the tree, but in the end the wolf gets killed the the families are safe. In the Traditional Tale it states, “and so the brave hunter jumped in the window killed the sleeping wolf and cut him open out jumped Granny and Red Riding Hood where ever so grateful.” This means that the hunter had killed the wolf. This is very …show more content…

The main characters in both stories were the kids, grandma, and the wolf. In "Little Red Riding Hood" it states, "Red Riding Hood was delighted she loved going to granny's… suddenly a large wolf appeared.” This excerpt shows the problem that Red has to go to her Grandma past the Wolf and the characters including in the problem. Similarly, in the short story, “Lon Po Po”, it states, “...three children, Shang, Tao, and Paotze. On the day of their grandmothers birthday… But an old wolf lived nearby…” This also shows the characters which are very closely related to the characters in “Red Riding Hood.” To sum up, both stories shared similarities in plot because they shared the same main

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