The Little Red Riding Hood Summary

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Little Red Riding Hood summary The alternative and so-called politically correct version of the Little Red Riding Hood starts with the well know beginning. She goes to her grandma, who is in this version not sick but fully capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult. She decides to go through forest, what people think its frightening and foreboding. However she is confident enough in her budding sexuality to do not pay attention to those prejudices. In the wood she meets with the wolf. After they split up, the wolf heads towards the Red Riding Hoods destination and there he eats her grandma.

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