Ogre: “Hello, how are you? You are Little Red Cap aren’t you? You are one of the most popular fairy tale characters!” (Little Red Cap ignoring him) “Of course, you wont talk to me, I lost my kids and my money and now a mere acquaintance in a coffee shop.”
LRC: “I did not mean to offend you Ogre, but I learned a very important moral at the end of my tale. I should not trust just anyone, even those that appear kind and gentle.”
Ogre: “Well I am sorry you feel that way. My tale had a written moral at the end and it only applied to the hero, Little Thumbling. Unfortunately my author did not leave any room for interpretation for a lesson and moral of the story.”
LRC: “I’m sorry ogre. The interpretation is the best part of my tale. You said you lost your family? Did Little Thumbling do this to you?”
Ogre: “Why, yes. He deceived me into killing my own daughters and tricked my wife into giving him all we had with my boots that he stole, my symbol of authority. He thought I was a danger to him but what he didn’t realize was that I was doing everything in my nature to protect him.”
LRC: “Like the hunter did for me? He saved me and my grandmother.”
Ogre: “Well see... I do what I need to get what I want. I tend not to think. I’m like the Id if you will.”
LRC: “I see. You can’t help yourself.”
Ogre: “I used to. I resisted Little Thumbling and his brothers until the middle of one night and I could not help myself and I accidentally killed my own daughters. (Tearing up) Since then, I refuse to eat human flesh to never put myself in that situation again.”
LRC: “How noble of you! Wait a second... the wolf that tried to eat me and my grandmother couldn’t help himself? It was part of his nature to trick me and eat me?”
Ogre: “Yes, unfortunately some of us villains never grow out of it and suffer the consequences. I was lucky enough to move on and my author allowed me to live in honor of my children.”
LRC: “That is so nice. Well, I have to go. I need to bring some coffee to my grandmother.”
Ogre: “Well, let me walk you there. The city can be a much more dangerous place than the forest.”
LRC: “Why thank you, that would be lovely.”
As they were walking, the ogre pushed Little Red Cap into an alley and ate her. The Id triumphs everything and will do anything to get what it wants, even if that is trick a girl and lie to her about your morals.
Pictures:
- I decided to draw a scene from “Little Red Cap” by the Grimm brothers. For some reason, the scene I depicted has stuck with me through all the stories and has been the most prominent scene for me through all the stories we read. Its ending varied greatly from all the other Little Red Riding Hood type stories and the act of revenge was not as obvious in all the other tales, Little Red Riding Hood or not, as it was in the Grimm’s Little Red Cap. I drew Little Red Cap, her grandmother, and the hunter filling the sleeping wolf’s stomach with stones so that once he awakens, his stomach will be too heavy and he will consequently collapse and die. In some tales, the villain does die, but either for protection, such as in “Goldflower and the Bear”, or for some other reason. Never has the villain died because the hero inflicts something on them that will lead to their imminent death. The fact that the grandmother and Little Red Cap filled the wolf’s stomach, in which they were just inside, with stones, it is something very iconic and special to the Grimm’s story, therefore I thought it would be a very good representation of the story.
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This is my graffiti image of the Juniper Tree. It is a story that I really enjoyed. I incorporated many of the motifs and symbols subtly in the image.
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