Peter Rabbit and Little Red Ridding Hood

Option 3 (Thesis-Driven): Both Peter Rabbit and Little Red Riding Hood focus on teaching children–in other words, on using the narrative in order to instruct children how to act (and not to act) in the world. Peter Rabbit teaches children by having Peter perform certain actions and be punished for them, while Little Red Riding Hood does it by including a poem at the end telling young readers how they should interpret the story. With that in mind, for this challenge I want you to address this question: Taken together, what do Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood show us about children’s literature’s ability to teach lessons? For this challenge, feel free to work through the differences as much as the similarities between the stories. What would happen if, for example, Little Red Riding Hood were published without a poem at the end? Or, what would happen if Peter Rabbit were published with a poem telling us how to read it