MY REFLECTION
This paper is designed to discuss the cultural variants of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. This tale is a very old one that has been told in many different ways. I decided to take most of the tales I wrote on from Europe. I decided to do this because the tale is originally from Europe but it is different depending on the country. These differences are what I wrote about in the paper. While reading them it seemed to me that they were mostly the same. There were not that many differences that I could really see at first glance. It wasn’t until I really started to study the tales that I began to see the true differences. I started to see that there were many differences all throughout the tales. I was able to see the ways that their country of origin influenced the specific versions. It was not that they just had different things going on, it was that the story writers wanted to make the tale to focus on lessons for their people. I was aware coming into the research that this was a common thing for writers to do. I knew that any story with a verbal tradition was going to be affected by the place that the creator is from. That being said I had trouble seeing this at first because the tales seemed to not have any clear differences. Other than the American tale and the Italian tale they all were identical stories. This frustrated me and made writing this paper difficult. It was when I started to come up with my own ideas about what I was looking at that this paper started to truly come together. I made up my own ideas and backed it up with supporting evidence. By doing that this paper became much easier and also better. The other challenge that I had was finding secondary sources. Since I had come up with my own ideas it was difficult to find sources that supported my claims. All the stuff I could find was about an idea that I did not agree with. Since it was required to do this I decided to use one of those sources and instead of using it as support I showed why I thought it was wrong. I thought this was a good decision that worked well in my paper. The final thing I had to do was find pictures to incorporate in the paper. The hardest part about this was trying to figure out the best way for me to get them in the paper. One idea was to just insert them in the paper but I did not like the way it looked. I decided to put in hyperlinks that that when clicked would take the user to a site with a picture. I thought this was the most aesthetically pleasing method. Finding the actual pictures was not hard. For little red I hyperlinked the picture on the word “Little Red Cap” and that is what the picture was called. I got it from Deviant art and I thought it showed little red as a truly small girl with this terrifying wolf and it showed what I thought the spirit of the tale is. For the wolf I went with a picture that shows how predatory the wolf is in the tale. The gunny wolf picture was the easiest. I just linked it to the site that I got the story from and it had a good picture on it that shows how light-hearted that tale is. The ogre picture was the hardest. All the pictures I could find were of the monster type of ogre. Since the tale has the ogre being someone that a child would follow I did not think this was how the ogre looked. I was able to find a picture that had the ogre as scary, but also human looking and that is more how I envisioned the character to look. I hope this reflection serves as a window into my process on this paper.
This paper is designed to discuss the cultural variants of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. This tale is a very old one that has been told in many different ways. I decided to take most of the tales I wrote on from Europe. I decided to do this because the tale is originally from Europe but it is different depending on the country. These differences are what I wrote about in the paper. While reading them it seemed to me that they were mostly the same. There were not that many differences that I could really see at first glance. It wasn’t until I really started to study the tales that I began to see the true differences. I started to see that there were many differences all throughout the tales. I was able to see the ways that their country of origin influenced the specific versions. It was not that they just had different things going on, it was that the story writers wanted to make the tale to focus on lessons for their people. I was aware coming into the research that this was a common thing for writers to do. I knew that any story with a verbal tradition was going to be affected by the place that the creator is from. That being said I had trouble seeing this at first because the tales seemed to not have any clear differences. Other than the American tale and the Italian tale they all were identical stories. This frustrated me and made writing this paper difficult. It was when I started to come up with my own ideas about what I was looking at that this paper started to truly come together. I made up my own ideas and backed it up with supporting evidence. By doing that this paper became much easier and also better. The other challenge that I had was finding secondary sources. Since I had come up with my own ideas it was difficult to find sources that supported my claims. All the stuff I could find was about an idea that I did not agree with. Since it was required to do this I decided to use one of those sources and instead of using it as support I showed why I thought it was wrong. I thought this was a good decision that worked well in my paper. The final thing I had to do was find pictures to incorporate in the paper. The hardest part about this was trying to figure out the best way for me to get them in the paper. One idea was to just insert them in the paper but I did not like the way it looked. I decided to put in hyperlinks that that when clicked would take the user to a site with a picture. I thought this was the most aesthetically pleasing method. Finding the actual pictures was not hard. For little red I hyperlinked the picture on the word “Little Red Cap” and that is what the picture was called. I got it from Deviant art and I thought it showed little red as a truly small girl with this terrifying wolf and it showed what I thought the spirit of the tale is. For the wolf I went with a picture that shows how predatory the wolf is in the tale. The gunny wolf picture was the easiest. I just linked it to the site that I got the story from and it had a good picture on it that shows how light-hearted that tale is. The ogre picture was the hardest. All the pictures I could find were of the monster type of ogre. Since the tale has the ogre being someone that a child would follow I did not think this was how the ogre looked. I was able to find a picture that had the ogre as scary, but also human looking and that is more how I envisioned the character to look. I hope this reflection serves as a window into my process on this paper.