Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Corruptions in "Little Red Riding Hood"


After I re-read LRRD in the book, I saw some phenomenons that were very close to our today's society in either developed or under-developed nations -Corruptions.

In Italo Calvino's version of LRRD - "The False Grandmother", on the way LRRH heading to her grandmother's house she "paid" the ring-shaped cakes to river and a bread with oil to gate in order to get pass, and we can compare these actions with people who bribed government officers or some people who have power in order to do things and sometime those things might be illegal. Also when LRRH is running away from the wolf, the gate and river leted LRRH to pass but not the wolf because LRRH offered them goods so she got "protected", and this event is very similar to some places that business or civilians need to pay the goods to gangs or government officers in order to receive the protection.

The corruptions are everywhere in the world, but in some places they just hide them better than the others. And I personal had experienced the bribes exist in the society: one of the examples is that once my grandfather was stayed in the hopital for few weeks, and we need to "tip" the nurses in order to get them to take care of my grandfather while he is in the hospital.

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