Cassandra Reveles: The not so innocent Little Red Riding Hood fairytale

Growing up, I had heard about Little Red Riding Hood but I don’t actually ever remember reading. I just simply knew the summary of the story. I think for this reason I never had the opportunity to analyze the reading any further other than the fact it is a fairytale.

Little Red Riding Hood is no joke. The main character is painted as a little dumb native girl who doesn’t know any better but to talk to strangers and give them exact directions as to where she’s going. She apparently is an airhead who takes the longer route to her grandmas houses and also gets distracted by the things she sees which makes her gets to where she needs to be at a slower pace.

The kind of human struggles I got from the bugs bunny version of little red is the fact that primarily women and girls of all ages are unsafe walking alone. Tim Seibles states in the text, “Didn anybody ever tell you it ain’t smart to stick out in wild places?” In other words he is saying its not safe for a little girl to be wondering the streets alone. Tim also mentions if it is the moms idea for her to be out and about. It is a parents duty to teach these concepts of safety to their children. Then at the end bugs bunny basically tries to seduce little red to coming back to his place because it’s safer. The character of bugs bunny is of a man who I trying to lure a young girl but trying to build trust and then taking her to do who knows what.  I actually think this text has a very clear message which is don’t talk and trust any strangers because we never know their intentions.