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... Titus' life was going as well as it could for a teenager, until he and his friends went to the…
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Titus' life was going as well as it could for a teenager, until he and his friends went to the moon for spring break. There he meets Violet, a girl who seems a little awkward around others, and talks in ways that neither Titus, nor his friends can figure out. But they decide that she's okay and take her with them when later they go to a club. That's when things go south. Violet, Titus and four of his friends are touched by an old man in the club, which causes their feeds to malfunction. "And then the police were at our sides whispering to us, 'We're going to have to shut you off now. We're going to have to shut you off now.' And then they touched us, and our bodies fell, and there was nothing else."(34) Once everyone wakes up the hospital, it takes time for them to get their feeds back, and by this time Titus and Violet have developed a relationship. Violet had been home schooled for her entire life and since her father is a professor, he has a lot of knowledge, especially since he made it through college without the feed. He teaches Violet things that Titus knows almost nothing about. "She asked me, 'Do you know how to read?' I nodded. 'I can read a little. I kind of protested it in School on the grounds that the silent "E" is stupid."(54) Violet and Titus have a fun couple of months together, but then Violet finds out that there is a malfunction in her feed. "'The feed is tied into everything. Your body control, your emotions, your memory. Everything. Sometimes feed errors are fatal. I don't know. I could lose...I don't know. They thought it would stabilize. But it didn't. It's getting worse.'"(136) Violet then tries to do as much as she can in the time she has.
This book makes many connections to our world today. it relates to the fact that our world is slowly becoming more reliant on computers and technology to learn and do things for us, which is the basic idea behind the feed itself. Also, this book kind of relates to the way that we treat the Earth. In the book, the oceans are toxic, there are no forests left, and animals are dying because of the toxins in the environments. This is similar to how we're cutting down the rain forests, which are key to the survival of the species that live there, since the rain forests have a delicate ecosystem. Plus we are polluting our oceans and fresh water sources by disposing of garbage in them, which not only hurts the animals, but could also hurt us in the long run.
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The well known story of Little Red Riding Hood was first written down by Charles Perrault in 1697 under the French title, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, in a book entitled Histoires ou contes du temps passé avec des moralités (Stories or tales of time spent with morals) with the subtitle Contes de ma mère l'oie (Tales of Mother Goose). The book also contained other common fairy tales, such as Cendrillon (Cinderella) and La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).
However, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood has been around prior the 17th century in many European countries. In Perrault’s version a young village girl is tricked into giving a wolf the location of her grandmother’s house so that he has time to make it there and eat her grandmother before she arrives. Upon eating her grandmother, the wolf sets a trap for Red Riding Hood and eats her as well. In his book Perrault even added a moral so that no one would be left in the dark; “From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers...Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!”
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The Story of Little Red Riding hood includes two main characters. Little Red Riding Hood and of course the Big Bad Wolf. There is a long, complicated and interesting story behind the life and adventures of the Big Bad Wolf. He pops up in many fairy tales and folk lore all around Europe. And, doubtful that it was the same wolf displayed in these stories usually the Wolf represents the same thing. A dark, misanthropic, sometimes evil force who tries to undermine the main character to get what he wants, usually food.
The obvious place for our story to start is the Tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The story was first recorded and published by Charles Perrault in 1697. The story originates in France from the 14 century, told among peasants. In the story the main character, Red Riding Hood, is going up into the mountains to visit her grandmother. Upon arriving at her grandmothers and walking into the house she sees her grandmother. She has larger teeth, paws and ears according to Reds observations. This is where our Wolf comes in. In truth he had eaten the Grandmother, dressed up like the grandmother, tricked little red and ate her too. This is one of the more, depressing and dark versions of the story, from the human perspective. Other versions describe the wolf being killed in the end while Red and the Grandmother live. This is, arguably one of the Wolf most famous stories.
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The well known story of Little Red Riding Hood was first written down by Charles Perrault in 16…
The well known story of Little Red Riding Hood was first written down by Charles Perrault in 1697 under the French title, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, in a book entitled Histoires ou contes du temps passé avec des moralités (Stories or tales of time spent with morals) with the subtitle Contes de ma mère l'oie (Tales of Mother Goose). The book also contained other common fairy tales, such as Cendrillon (Cinderella) and La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).
However, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood has been around prior the 17th century in many European countries. In Perrault’s version a young village girl is tricked into giving a wolf the location of her grandmother’s house so that he has time to make it there and eat her grandmother before she arrives. Upon eating her grandmother, the wolf sets a trap for Red Riding Hood and eats her as well. In his book Perrault even added a moral so that no one would be left in the dark; “From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers...Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!”
The Brothers Grimm retold two different German versions of Little Red Riding Hood in the 19th century, the first being the main story and the second a sequel. The first story, Rotkäppchen or, Little Red Cap, begins as Perrault's does, however Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are saved by a huntsman. In the sequel Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother outsmart a different wolf, as they now know what not to deal.
In addition to these versions, other regions in Europe have their own tale of Little Red Riding Hood. From what is now eastern Germany and western Poland, comes the story, Little Red Hood, in which the wolf is killed by a huntsman. The Italian version has an ogre instead of a wolf, and the ogre eats both the grandmother and Little Red Hat, as she is know in the story. An alternate French version of the story from the late 19th century called The Grandmother, ends with the young girl eating her grandmother unknowingly, but ultimately escaping the wolf. In 1895 Charles Marelles published The True History of Little Golden Hood in England. This story is a much less graphic version, where the little girl has an actual name, Blanchette. The grandmother is not eaten and the Blatchette's hood turns out to be magical and saves her from being eaten.
Throughout the 19th and into the 20th century, slightly different versions of the story of Little Red Riding Hood have been written. In the 21st century movies were also made. In 2005, a children's movie named Hoodwinked was released. The main character, who goes simply by Red, was played by Anne Hathaway. The story follows Red, her grandmother (better known as Granny), the wolf, and the woodsman, whose real name is Kirk, during an investigation to find out who has been stealing recipes from everyone in the woods. A sequel to Hoodwinked; Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil was released in 2011. Also in 2011 a film entitled Red Riding Hood was released. In a twist on the original story, Valerie, the main character, is older and about to be married to the blacksmith's son. Valerie (played by Amanda Seyfried) is given a red riding hood by her grandmother as an early wedding present. When Valerie's sister is killed by a werewolf living in the woods beyond the village, many village and family secrets begin to pour out, including the one the Valerie can understand and talk to the werewolf.
The Story of Little Red Riding hood includes two main characters. Little Red Riding Hood and of course the Big Bad Wolf. There is a long, complicated and interesting story behind the life and adventures of the Big Bad Wolf. He pops up in many fairy tales and folk lore all around Europe. And, doubtful that it was the same wolf displayed in these stories usually the Wolf represents the same thing. A dark, misanthropic, sometimes evil force who tries to undermine the main character to get what he wants, usually food.
The obvious place for our story to start is the Tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The story was first recorded and published by Charles Perrault in 1697. The story originates in France from the 14 century, told among peasants. In the story the main character, Red Riding Hood, is going up into the mountains to visit her grandmother. Upon arriving at her grandmothers and walking into the house she sees her grandmother. She has larger teeth, paws and ears according to Reds observations. This is where our Wolf comes in. In truth he had eaten the Grandmother, dressed up like the grandmother, tricked little red and ate her too. This is one of the more, depressing and dark versions of the story, from the human perspective. Other versions describe the wolf being killed in the end while Red and the Grandmother live. This is, arguably one of the Wolf most famous stories.
Another story depicting the wolf is Peter and The Wolf. Written in 1936 by Segei Prokofier. The Story tells the tale of Peter, a young Russian boy living in the woods with his grandfather. One day Peter sees a wolf eat his duck in the pond and the rest of the story is dedicated to Peter attempting to kill the wolf which he eventually pulls off in the end with the help of some hunters.
The boy who cried wolf is another one we have all heard. It tells the story of a young Sheppard who keeps making the village people believe that a wolf was attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does he calls for help and no body comes. The flock was destroyed and the lesson learned. The story was first believed to be told by Aesop- a Greek slave- in ancient times.
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