#lonpopo

[deannamstover]

Is it just me or does the landscape look like the head of a wolf?

(image from Ed Young’s Lon Po Po)

[snavarro2-world-blog]

After reading this, I was pretty much convinced that the wolf did not have the intention of eating the children to begin with. I found it odd that the kids easily opened the door for him and the wolf didn’t attack them at the first opportunity. He then tells the children that he’s tired and wants to rest.

The wolf was also fooled pretty easily, despite him being cunning himself. After falling not once, nor twice, but three times, he dies due to the fall, and it seems that his heart breaks because of the children’s betrayal.

This story is definitely a unique red riding hood story. That’s because it teaches us that we already assume that the wolf is evil and wants to eat children due to all the similar versions of red riding hood stories we have read or heard. But this story makes you stop and think, what were the wolf’s real intentions? I think he just wanted some company, even if it was for one night. And somehow it feels that he was already prepared for the worse in exchange for that. 

This is my interpretation.

[nileh27-blog]

This statement rang throughout the duration of this reading as a constant, opaque theme. The wolf is a rhetorical concept to think about when reading about his deception, malicious intentions, and greed. The moral of the story is a solemn one that makes you wonder about a society, where it’s needed to teach children this from a young age.  

[alexismmarcantel-blog]

In this quote, Ed Young seems as though he is warning his audience of the predators that seek out children. This can be interpreted in different ways, the darkness can represent a sexual predator which, which was a common trend in most of the LRRH stories that we read. This can also be in a way that the predator is seeking out children in general, to eat them, kidnap them, or any other interpretation of this. In this reading specifically, he is wanting to eat the children but what differentiates this from other LRRH stories, is that there are three kids and they outsmart the wolf together. Not only do they outsmart him, but they also kill him before he has the chance to kill them. Lon Po Po, was very similar to the other stories we have read but also very different in the sense that there were three children and it was the mother who left to go to their grandma’s instead of them.