Talking to Strangers: Analysis of Brothers Grimm's Little Red Cap
Essay: essay# Talking to Strangers Talking to Strangers There are two ways that people are able to choose when they meet strangers. Frist, people can friendly to the strangers and have a good time to communicate with strangers. The other way is that people can indifferent to the strangers and never stop to talk with them. It seems that more and more people choose the second way, because they are afraid of meeting trouble. There is a tale called “Little Red Cap”, written by Brothers Grimm. Through personification and symbolism, the author illustrated the character of Little Red Cap become indifferent after being deceived by the first wolf, which revealing people will easily become indifferent after they suffer from cheating, hurting. Although people keep kind-hearted and naïve will easily be hurt, people would acquire happiness and more opportunity to make friends. At the beginning of “Little Red Cap”, the author uses symbolism to convey these little girls who like Little Red Cap is very naïve, kind-hearted and has less outside experience. Therefore, most of they are friendly to strangers. The author writes, “ Little Red Cap had no idea what a wicked beast he was, and so she wasn’t in the least afraid of him.”(Brothers Grimm 14). When a wolf comes to Little Red Cap, the little girl does feel any scare and has no idea about how danger it is. It obviously shows that Little Red Cap is bred-will, have less knowledge about outside world. So she keeps a pure heart and thinks everyone is a good man. In the tale “ Cake and wine. Yesterday we baked and Grandmother, who is dick and feels weak, needs something to make her feel better.”(Brothers Grimm 14). Moreover, because of the naïve character, the world in Little Red Cap’s opinion is simple have no dangerous, which lead the little girl likely to stop and to communicate with strangers. All these actions show the simple world in Little Red Cap’s mind and if readers throw the opinion about the wolf which is wick
Cited: Brothers Grimm. “ Little Red Cap.” The Classic Fairy Tales. Ed. Maria Tatar. New York: W.W.Norton & Company, Lnc., 1999.13-16. Print.