The Little Red Riding Hood
Setting
- Magical Forest
- Grandma’s House
Mood
- Mysterious
- Surreal
- Vengeful
Paragraph 1: The original story of “The Little Red Riding Hood” is about a young girl who is visiting her grandmother but ends up facing a scary wolf. The concept of this story is to teach children not to trust strangers and to be careful of people even if they are someone you love because you can still get hurt by their selfishness.
How I would twist the story of The Little Red Riding Hood is that she is the wolf. In the Grimm’s version of this story, she is obeying her mother by staying on the right path to visit her grandmother. They are also saved by a hunter in the end. I wanted a twist where the grandmother is already dead by the Big Bad Wolf and this Red Riding Hood is older and sets out her adventure (revenge in this case) instead of listening to her mother to stop going to her grandmother’s house. During the night, she wears a wolf mask and lures the Big Bad Wolf into the magical forest to seek revenge.
Paragraph 2: During the morning she is the innocent Red Riding Hood, visiting her grandmother’s house to keep the house clean and turning that house into her secret hideout where she plans her revenge. During the night she wears her wolf mask and lures her enemy with the smell of blood into the magical forest where they will be seen again.
Changes and Key Details:
Red Riding Hood is the wolf.
Red Riding Hood seeks revenge for her grandmother who was killed by the Big Bad Wolf.
Red Riding Hood is older.
Characters:
Red Riding Hood: An innocent girl by daylight who has a scary intention at night. She wears her normal outfit during daylight but at night she wears a wolf mask and a dark blood-red color hoodie.
Grandmother: The motivation for Red Riding Hood’s revenge.
The Big Bad Wolf: Grandmother’s killer and the reason for Red Riding Hood’s revenge.
Motivations: Trauma can change someone’s life, in this story it’s Red Riding Hood’s desire for vengeance.
Paragraph 3: This twist is important because everyone deals with trauma differently and I want to show how Red Riding Hood deals with hers. I want to tell this story because the choices you make can either be bad or good but not both.
Even if she got her revenge and killed the wolf, does that make her a good person? What if she gets consumed by vengeance and kills all the wolves in the world? What if the person that killed the grandmother was a human? No matter how innocent or kind someone may be, they still have darkness in themselves.
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