FROM “LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD” (Brother’s Grimm)

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but
most of all by her grandmother… Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her
so well that she would never wear anything else. So she was always called Little Red Riding
Hood.

One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a
bottle of milk. Take Them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good…”
I will take great care, said Little Red Riding Hood to her mother, and gave her hand on it.

The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red
Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a
wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

"Good-day, Little Red Riding Hood," said he.

"Thank you kindly, wolf."
"Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?"
"To my grandmother's."
"What have you got in your apron?"
"Cake and milk. Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something
good…”
"Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?"
"A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large
loak-trees, the nut-trees are just below. You surely must know it," replied Little Red Riding
Hood.

The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful, she
will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both." So he walked
for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said, "see Little Red Riding
Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here. Why do you not look round.…."

Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the … pretty flowers growing
everywhere, she thought, suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay. That would please her
too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time. And so she ran from the path
…and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.
"Who is there?"
"Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf. "She is bringing cake and milk. Open the door."
"Lift the latch," called out the grandmother, "I am too weak, and cannot get up."
The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the
grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap,
laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.
Little Red Riding Hood, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had
gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out
on the way to her. She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open.… There lay her
grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

"Oh, grandmother," she said, "what big ears you have." "The better to hear you with, my child,"
was the reply.
"But, grandmother, what big eyes you have," she said. "The better to see you with, my dear."
"But, grandmother, what large hands you have." "The better to hug you with."
"Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have." "The better to eat you with."

And scarcely had the wolf said this, than he swallowed up Little Red Riding Hood.
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began
to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, how the
old woman is snoring. I must just see if she wants anything.

So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it..…
Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured
the grandmother, .… so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the
stomach of the sleeping wolf.

When he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red Riding Hood shining, and then he made
two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, "Ah, how frightened I have been. How dark
it was inside the wolf."

And after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Little
Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly,
and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at
once, and fell dead.

Answer the following questions from the story using textual evidence.

What is Little Red Riding Hood bringing to her grandmother?

Highlight One: Candy and Soda Cake and Milk Pie and Juice

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What type of trees is grandmother’s house under?

Highlight One: Christmas Pine Apple Oak

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What tool did the huntsman use to cut the wolf open?

Highlight one: Scissors Knife Saw Axe

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What three physical features does Little Red question her

“grandmother” about? Use Textual Evidence to support your answer.

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Why does the huntsman go to the house? Use Textual Evidence to support your answer.
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