Comparison of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tales is a multi-task operation, which involves numerous elaborations on the many aspects of the story. Setting, plot, character origin, and motif are the few I chose to elaborate on exclusively. While the versions vary, they all have the gimmick of the motif, all the characters include some sort of villain with a heroine, the plot all concludes with the final destruction or termination of the villain, and the settings and origins of the versions vary. at most to the point of not being comparable but only contrasting, if we can say that origins and settings are contrasting. Little Red Riding Hood as told by the Brothers Grimm in Paul Galdone's version includes a "sweet girl" (Galdone 1) who never wears anything other than a red velvet cape, given to her by her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood's mother asks her to bring a cake and a bottle of wine to her grandmother. The Wolf in the Woods is very talented as it is somehow convincing in the story. First she approaches Little Red Riding Hood in the woods keeping her calm with a polite conversation and then convinces her to pick the beautiful flowers, in the meantime she has run away to her grandmother's house to devour her grandmother; then devour Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf later lay there in Grandma's bed convincingly as Grandma with his cap pulled down over his face. After convincing Little Red Riding Hood to approach the wolf, he devours her. The heroine turns out to be a hunter, who "took a knife and began to cut open the sleeping wolf" (Galdone 26) when Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother emerged. Little Red Riding Hood wins by placing large stones inside the wolf, which weigh it down,...... in the center of the card...... on top. The settings vary significantly but vary to give the story meaning from its origins. The plots are somewhat similar, where the innocent comes into contact with the bad guy, where the bad guy is always the underdog. The characters always include the villain and the heroine. There will always be a way to compare folk tales that have different versions, it is up to the students who master the task of actually comparing and contrasting to literally accomplish the assigned tasks. Works Cited Artell, Mike. Petite Rouge: Little Red Riding Hood Cajun. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers. 2001. Galdone, Paolo. Little Red Riding Hood. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1974.Lowell, Susan. Small red cowboy hat. New York: Henry Holt and company. 1997.Young, ed. Lon Po Po: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from China. New York: Philomel Books. 1989.