I need help writing the Wolf's side of the story of Little Red Riding Hood?

Question

For my class, we're showing how there are two sides to every story. I'm writing the wolf's side of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We need to somehow relate it to a book we read (Girl, Interrupted), in which the main character had Borderline Personality Disorder. So it's logical that the wolf could have had BPD.

symptoms of BPD are:

- symptoms are most acute when people with BPD feel isolated and lacking in social support, and may result in frantic efforts to avoid being alone.

- Thus, they may form an immediate attachment and idealize the other person, but when a slight spearation or conflict occurs, they switch unexpectedly to the other extreme

- These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression.

all of theses symptoms could be associated with the wolf having BPD.

The story is told as the wolf being the narrator. I have the story beginning with the wolf walking through the woods, but i don't know what could make him feel isolated that would cause him to form an attachment to Little Red..

I'm also planning to have him approach her and say something (maybe about the basket of goodies for her grandmother?) but i dont know what could happen that makes him feel conflicted with her and swith from the attachment to anger which would cause him to pretend to be her grandmother....

so after this, i am stuck.

also, I'm not sure how to end the story.. I want to somehow tell the reader that he went to a therapist and discovered that he has BPD.. hence his side of the story...

lots of info, I know!

but any help at all will be greatly appreciated!!!!!

Answer 1

Give him a bit of a back story. Maybe he was abandoned when he was young. Maybe some humans pulled a trick on him and almost got him killed so he learned to be craftier. Also explore the fact that he comes up with a pretty elaborate plan when he could have just attacked Riding Hood and eaten her in the woods. I wouldn't say he has BDP but there are other characters in Girl, Interrupted with mental disorders that would be more suitable.

Answer 2

I'm sorry I cant help but what a fantastic question. It has made me start looking at my latest project in a fresh light, after being blocked, Thank you. Sorry I couldn't be of any help but thank you

Answer 3

Why don't you just make the wolf  a villain.  After wolves are not human they are wild animals.  The story will be easier to write if you keep it realistic. Wolves don't want to be friends, they are  not mad at you they are wolves.  They  attack   people  and other animals just to eat and stay alive.  Wolves don't have to have a reason to attack anything or anyone.  Just tell the story as the wolf wandering around the woods and saw the kid then did what wolves do,  

Answer 4

"The tourist season was crummy, their leftovers were nearly non-existent. If it hadn't been for that case of Girl Scout cookies, I don't think I would have lasted this long. If I don't get some food soon I'm going to go crazy. And besides... .

What's that? That noise? is somebody singing? Who out here is ahppy enough to be singing?

It's a little girl! She looks like she hasn't a care in the world. She sure doesn't look huingry, not with those rosy fat cheeks. fat, cheeks. fat.

Snap out of it Louie. There's a meal on the trail and I'm starving. Let's attack and wolf her down. Heh Heh , wolf her down. Clever if i do say so myself.

Quietly, carefully, watch out for the twigs, don't want to scare her off.

Closer, closer, (SNAP!) d**n, now she heard me for sure.

scurrying, "Hey there little girl, where you off too?

Grandma huh? Where's she live? Just over that ridge? Oh, you mean that cute little white cottage, with the seing in the back? Sure, I know it. Been there plenty of times. Nice lady, alwasys leaves me something to eat when I stop by. (hmmmmm) Okay, see you later.

dastardly wolf rushes to Grandmas house, sneaks around and checks out things from the bedroom window

"La dee dah, it's such a nice day in the woods with noconcerns and my granddaughter coming to see m....OH No, a WOLF is at my door. Whatever should I do? HELP!!

Hi there granny. Heard you had company coming for dinner. Mind if I stick around and help you prepare dinner? Wha? You do? But, but

Answer 5

Above anything else, the Wolf's motive is NEED.  Everything he does is about filling his needs.

He's alone.  A Lone Wolf.  He doesn't have a pack.  What?  Isn't he good enough for a pack?  WHY CAN'T ANY PACK SEE THAT HE"S GOOD ENOUGH?!  But they don't.  He must not be...  Poor lone Wolf.

And then he sees a girl.  She's in red.  The color of blood.  She's not so different than him.  Both of their blood runs red, doesn't it?  Why couldn't she be like a pack to him.  Surely this frail little thing will have to look up to him!  To see that he's worth it!  Then he won't have to be alone!

But she's so easily distracted.  Why doesn't she appreciate him like he deserves?  He'll show her... He'll become the person she admires most in the world!  Then she'll HAVE to look up to him and appreciate him and he'll finally BELONG.

But she doesn't look up to him.  She's scared of him now.  She runs away, and he lost another person who could have helped him to belong.  It seems like everyone thinks he doesn't belong.  In a moment of clarity the Wolf decides that maybe it's not the world that has the issue.  Maybe it's him.  He goes to a therapist to improve himself.