Little Red Riding Hood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bob Dylan

As we venture into the deep abyss of literary analysis we have an opportunity to utilize a children's story to help us recognize and evaluate diction to help us determine an author's purpose. "Little Red Riding Hood" provides the perfect medium. It is the details and various connotations we see in an author's word choice that helps us move through a text and truly make sense of it as well as understand and apply its worth in our own lives.

This has lead us into the famed tale of Connie with a basis in the factual life of murderer Charles Schmid aka "The Pied Piper of Tucson" the vague ending allows us a chance to find our opinion amidst many interpretations and analyses of theme, symbol and metaphor.

This will lead us into the critical analysis essay where you will choose an aspect of the story to focus on and provide an analysis of that facet with specific examples and explanations to support and expound upon your viewpoint.

Here is your opportunity to tell me what you think and prove it!