2. EXPLAIN IN DETAIL THE REASONS FOR
YOUR CHOICE OF STORY?
• Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy-tale which has been told for many centuries dating back to the 14th
century (which is when the early origins of the story started). The story has been told throughout Europe
with many different adaptations being created by different authors such as Charles Perrault and Brothers
Grimm and even in the 21st century movie adaptations. Many of the different adaptations do not include
an actual moral, however, Charles Perrault explained the moral after his adaptation called “Le Petit
Chaperon Rouge” stating “From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty,
courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is
thereby provided with his dinner.” To simplify this Charles Perrault is basically saying “do not talk to
strangers” but me and my partner Tesfah thought that we could use the same type of moral but develop it
by making the moral be “Listen and respect your parents” . We thought that this would apply to us as we
are still young and we do not to listen and respect your parents. So in essence, we decided to adapt this
story because the moral needed to be changed and a bit more general as “Listen and respect your
parents” covers every single instruction you receive from your parents yet “do not talk to strangers” only
gives you one mere piece of advice.
3. APPLY THE 5-STAGE THEORY AND BREAK
DOWN EACH STAGE CLEARLY
• The exposition introduces the settings and characters. We have lived up to the conventions of an
exposition in a fairy-tale by setting the scene which is in some dark woods and by introducing the
audience to Little Red Riding Hood (a black Little Red Riding Hood).
• The development introduces more characters and the story kicks off. Me and Tesfah introduced the
mother of little red riding hood who is going to be West Indian and Grandma Josephine who is not
seen yet but talked about.The story kicks off when the mother asks Little Red Riding Hood to go and
bring a basket of patties to Grandma Josephine's which Red Riding Hood reluctantly does.
• The complication involves conflicts within the story and the complication starts in our adaptation
when little red riding hood is questioned and stalked by the wolf. Little red riding hood throws every
single object she could grab hold of at the wolf before legging it to Grandma Josephine's house
• The climax is when a decisive moment is reached. In our adaptation, the decisive moment is reached
when little red riding hood runs to the Grandma Josephine's house with the wolf following her by a
narrow margin. The grandma's door is left open so the red riding hood runs into the house to get
Grandma Josephine to save her who is sleeping in her room.
• The resolution is when the story ends and it is quite formulaic to make the resolution of a fairy-tale a
happy ending. The resolution in our adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma Josephine gives
the wolf a good old fashioned beating saving little red riding hood. Grandma Josephine gives little red
riding hood a reward for eating the majority of patties. Which is a "happily ever after".
4. DISCUSS THE CHARACTER TYPES AS IDENTIFIED BY PROPP AND HOW THESE
MIGHT BE SUBVERTED IN YOUR OWN VERSION
• The character types of Vladimir Propp we will be adopting and subverting are going to be the villain,
the dispatcher, the hero, the false hero and the prize. The dispatcher is going to be the mother of little
red riding hood who sends her through the woods with a basket of patties to bring for her grandma.
The hero is going to be the grandma who replaces the lumberjack as the hero in Little Red Riding
Hood. The grandma saves little red riding hood by giving the wolf a good old fashioned beating. Little
Red Riding could be seen as the false hero as she is the protagonist so people would think that she will
save the day when in fact her grandmother saves the day. The villain is going to be the wolf who
struggles with both the hero (grandma) and the false hero (Little Red Riding Hood). The wolf is
eventually defeated by the grandma at the end of our adaptation. We've subverted one of the
character types of Vladimir Propp which is the princess. Instead we will be using a prize and that prize
would be Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother united at the end of the story. The grandma
gives Little Red Riding Hood a reward for eating the majority of the patties.
5. IDENTIFY THE CHANGES YOU HAVE MADE TO THE
ORIGINAL VERSION AND WHY THEY HAVE BEEN MADE
• The changes me and Tesfah made to the original version of Little Red Riding Hood is that the family is
going to be of West Indian origin subverting the usual European family. We done this as it relates to us
as we are both of West Indian descent but mainly to target a diverse range of audiences. We thought
by attracting a diverse audience more people would look at our adaptation of the fairy-tale, people
with black origin as it relates to them but people from other cultures could understand and get to
know a little more about West Indian culture.
• Also, our adaptation would target a teenage audience as Little Red Riding Hood is going to be a
teenager with a stroppy teenage attitude. We see this in our adaptation when the mother tells little
red riding hood to and bring a basket full of patty to her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood replies
by saying “No mum I got a motive today”. Teenagers could relate to this because we are typically
depicted as being quite rebellious and lazy. In the original version, Little Red Riding Hood is a little girl
which is why the story is told to children rather than teenagers.
