Story Planning: Little Red Cap

At the beginning, I want to describe how close Little Red Cap is with her entire family. From there, I want to describe the dynamic between Little Red Cap and her grandmother. In my version, Little Red Cap will have lost her father at a young age. His mother is the grandma that she is close to. Having her nearby will help Little Red Cap cope with his loss and also make their relationship stronger.

After that, I will talk about how Little Red Cap and her mother planned little surprises for her grandma. Each week Little Red Cap would visit her grandmother so she would have a visitor. On this particular week, it was Little Red Cap’s grandmother’s birthday. She will be bringing her birthday gifts and cake to help her grandma celebrate. On her way there, she notices a strange creature ahead of her, but thinks nothing of it. Everyone knows this part of the story, the wolf pretends to be the grandma. In some stories, the grandma dies. In this one, she will not. She will hide in the closet and the wolf will not realize she is home. The wolf will be under the sheets when Little Rep Cap gets to the house.  While Little Red Cap is walking around her grandmother’s house and talking to the wolf, the grandma is coming up with a plan to get the wolf out of her house.  She sneakily crawls into the kitchen and motions to her granddaughter to stay quiet. Together, they grab various pans and hit the wolf so hard in the face that he is knocked out. Next, they call the town’s police to help get rid of the wolf in her house. It is a happy ending and everyone lives! It is a subtle, but necessary change to this story!

Bibliography: Brothers Grimm: Little Red Riding Cap by Brothers Grimm. Link to online reading. 

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