The story of Little Red Riding Hood is considered one of the European fable stories, telling about a girl’s relationship with a bad wolf, and it is one of the beloved children’s stories.
This story tells about a little girl living in a village near the forests, named Little Red Riding Hood because whenever she left the house, she would wear a red dress, so the village people gave her that name, Little Red Riding Hood.
One morning, Little Red Riding Hood’s mother asked her to go visit her grandmother. She thought it was a good idea to see her grandmother, so her mother prepared a beautiful basket full of fruit and good food for her to take to her grandmother. When the mother prepared the food basket, the girl put on her red riding hood, kissed her mother, and went outside. At that moment, her mother said to her:
— Remember, oh Little Red Riding Hood, that you must go directly to your grandmother’s house, and never talk to any strangers. She warned her a lot and told her that the forest is dangerous. — Little Red Riding Hood answered: Don’t worry, Mom, I will be careful.
On her way, some beautiful flowers in the forest stopped her, and she forgot her promise to her mother that she would not stop in the forest for any reason. Little Red Riding Hood picked some beautiful flowers and began watching the butterflies and listening to the frogs. She was enjoying her time in the forest greatly and didn’t notice that dark shadows were approaching behind her back.
— Suddenly, the wolf appeared beside her and asked her in a friendly manner: What are you doing here, little girl? — Little Red Riding Hood answered and told him she was on her way to see her grandmother, who lives in the forest near the valley. — Then she fell silent for a moment and remembered her mother’s words and noticed how late it was, and she quickly ended her conversation with the wolf to go quickly to her grandmother’s house.
While she was on her way to her grandmother, the wolf was also going there. In the meantime, the grandmother’s door was knocked gently. The grandmother thought it was her granddaughter Little Red Riding Hood at the door.
— She began saying to her: Thank God you are well, my dear. I was very worried about you when you were late in the forest.
But she was surprised to find that it was the wolf knocking at the door, not her granddaughter. The evil wolf locked the sick grandmother in the clothes closet.
He found a nightgown to sleep in the grandmother’s place on her bed. After a few minutes, Little Red Riding Hood knocked on the grandmother’s door. The wolf jumped onto the bed and pulled the covers over his long nose so Little Red Riding Hood wouldn’t see him, and he imitated the grandmother’s voice. But Little Red Riding Hood felt that her grandmother’s voice sounded very strange.
The evil wolf answered her that he was suffering from a severe cold, which is why his voice was strange. He began coughing to make Little Red Riding Hood believe him. Then she noticed his big ears afterwards. At that point, the wolf asked her to approach the bed under the pretext that he couldn’t hear her well.
When she approached, she found that the eyes she saw were not her grandmother’s eyes, and she found big teeth too. Little Red Riding Hood began to feel afraid, and her voice began to tremble.
After that, the evil wolf jumped from the bed and began chasing the little girl, Little Red Riding Hood. At that moment, Little Red Riding Hood realized that the person on the bed was not her grandmother, but that came too late, because the wolf was hungry. She began running away from him throughout the room, shouting: Help, help, the wolf wants to eat me, save me.
She kept shouting loudly until a woodcutter in the forest heard her screams; he was cutting tree trunks. He ran toward the house quickly to save her. Indeed, the woodcutter was able to save Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. But Little Red Riding Hood was trembling with fear and kept crying intensely, and she said at that moment that she would never talk to strangers again.
The woodcutter carried the evil wolf and threw him deep into the forest so he couldn’t harm anyone again.
The moral: We must obey our mother in anything she tells us, and this story also taught us that we must not talk to strangers or those we don’t know.