"As soon as Wolf began to feel
That he would like a decent meal,
He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
When Grandma opened it, she saw
The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
And Wolfie said, "May I come in?"
Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
"He's going to eat me up!" she cried.
And she was absolutely right.
He ate her up in one big bite."
His big teeth in these pictures made me think of the old Little Red Riding Hood (
LRRH) fairy tale. I found a number of warped versions of the story floating around the
internet. The above quote is from
Roald Dahl. The rest of his version of the story is here:
http://www.cupola.com/html/wordplay/redride1.htm
Dahl's version of the story left me thinking that LRRH was probably a Republican voting member of the local NRA chapter who didn't think twice about shooting an often unecessarily maligned and defenseless member of an endangered species.
Then I found another, politically correct, version of the
LRRH story elsewhere on the same website here:
http://www.cupola.com/html/wordplay/redride2.htm. I've lived this version myself over the last 9 years as a owner/worker/member of a cooperatively run business in Berkeley, CA.
The question is this: Should I really be telling our son stories that involve animals eating his relatives? And if so, which version should he get?
Rob
