Grimm's Fairy Tales: 200th anniversary of children's stories celebrated with Little Red Riding Hood Google doodle
German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm penned many popular children’s
stories, including Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and the
Three Bears and Rumpelstiltskin. The Grimm Brothers gave good moral value and lesson to every children in world who read their tales.
WIKI:
The
Brothers Grimm (
German:
Brüder Grimm or
Die Gebrüder Grimm),
Jacob (1785–1863) and
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were
German academics,
linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected
folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of European
folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as "
Cinderella" (
Aschenputtel), "
The Frog Prince" (
Der Froschkönig), "
Hansel and Gretel" (
Hänsel und Gretel), "
Rapunzel", "
Rumpelstiltskin" (
Rumpelstilzchen), and "
Snow White" (
Schneewittchen). Their first collection of folk tales,
Children's and Household Tales (
Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.
The brothers spent their formative years first in the German town of
Hanau and then in
Steinau.
Their father's death in 1796, about a decade into their lives, caused
great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years.
They attended the
University of Marburg where historian and jurist
Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in
philology and
Germanic studies—a
field in which they are now considered pioneers—and at the same time
developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a lifelong
dedication to collecting German folk tales.
In the Brothers Grimm Doodle you can
view images of the “Story of Little Red Riding Hood” also known as
“Little Red Cap” or simply “Red Riding Hood”, is a European fairy tale
about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.
In the first Google Doodle you can see
Little Red Riding Hood standing with a picnic basket in her hand,
waiting for you to click the arrow to move to the next scene of the
story.
“Once you click on the Right Arrow you will be taken to the next scene
of the Brothers Grimm Little Red Riding Hood story. In the image you can
see that Little Red Riding Hood is leaving the city and going into the
forest to visit her grandmother. Her Grandmother is sick and she is
talking food to her.”
“In the next scene Little Red Riding Hood is walking over a bridge
entering the forest. She is singing and being happy glad to be on her
way to visit her Grandmother”
“In the Story Little Red Riding Hood is still a little kid, and she is
not fully aware of all the dangers that are in the forest. In the right
hand corner you will see two eyes looking at little Red Riding Hood.
These are the eyes of the Big Bad Wolf and is likely to be symbolic of
the dangers that the world offers to little naive kids.”
In the next scene the BIG BAD WOLF approaches Little Red Riding Hood and
asks her where she is going. Just like many of the Brothers Grimm
stories, the moral of the scene is that children should not talk to
strangers. In the scene Little Red Riding Hood is being callable and
tell the Wolf about her grandmother that is sick, and that she is going
to visit her grandmother, without knowing that the Wolf is mentally sick
and psycho and can hurt her.
“After talking to Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf realize that Little
Red Riding Hood did not listen to her parents warning her not to talk to
strangers, and takes advantage of Little Red Riding Hood, telling her
that he thinks her Grandma would appreciate it if she picked some
flowers for her, and show her a place where she can pick flowers for the
Grandma. In some of the varioants of the Brother Grimm stories, the
Wolf tells the little girl about a shortcut she can take that will bring
her to the grandmothers house faster. Ofcaurse this is all part of the
Wolf’s plan to go to the grandmothers house and wait for Little Red
Riding Hood to come”
“While Little Red Riding Hood is picking flowers for her Grandmother,
the Wolf is quickly making his way to Little Red Riding Hood’s
Grandmothers House”
“Close to where Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandmother lives the Wolf
crosses a river in some of the other versions of the Brothers Grimm
Little Red Riding Hood story there is a pond close to the grandmothers
house”
“The Wolf gets to the Grandmothers home and because he knows that Little
Red Riding Hood is going to visit her grandmother, and the grandmother
is expecting Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf pretends to be her and
easily fool her sick grandmother to open the door for him!”
Once the Grandmother opens the door for the Wolf he easily overpowers
her. In some stories he lock the Grandmother in the closet and in other
stories the Wolf ate the Grandmother.
“Being only a little girl, Little Red Riding Hood is surprised to find
her grandma in bed when she finally arrives, her grandma also looks
different and she is uncertain about why her grandmother looks the way
she looks, she thinks by herself that it might be because her
grandmother is sick!”
“Little Red Riding Hood cannot hold her curiosity anymore and asks the
Wolf why his ears are so big. The wolf answers that it is to hear her
better. Then she asks him why his nose is so big and he answers her it
is to better smell her, she then ask him why his mouth is so big, and he
answers that it is to eat her!”
“The wolf then jump’s up and eat Little Red Riding Hood. He then falls asleep…”
“Luckily for Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother there is a Wood
Chopper close to the house. He earlier saw the Wolf and Little Red
Riding Hood talking and thought that he will keep an eye on the two,
when he hears snoring coming from the grandmothers house he knows that
there is something wrong and quickly go to the house to investigate.”
“The Wood Choppers find the Wolf sleeping in the Grandmothers house and
immediately knows that there is something wrong.” In many of the other
variants of the Brothers Grimm stories the wolf heard Little Red Riding
Hood calling for help instead of the Wolf snoring.
In the Google version of the Brothers Grimm Little Red Riding Hood it
looks like the grandmother have knitted a rope in the wolf’s stomach
that she and little red riding hood wanted to use to climb out of the
wolf stomach.
“The wood chopper saw the Knitting coming out of the Wolf’s mouth and
junked on it, pulling both little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother
from the Wolf’s stomach, saving them both!”
“After saving Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother the Wood
Chopper fights with the Bad Wolf and knocks the Wolf unconscious, In the
image you can see that Little Red Riding Hood is really happy that the
Wood Chopper saved her!”
“In the Google version of the Brothers Grimm story the Wolf is send to
jail, in other versions of the Brothers Grimm Story the Wood Chopper cut
open the Wolf stomach to save the girl and her grandmother, the
grandmother then stitches the Wolf stomach together again after filling
the wolf’s stomach with rocks. The wolf then falls into the river or
pond and drowns because of the heavy stones in his stomach!”
In the end the Brothers Grimm story ends on a high note with Little Red
Riding Hood beings saved and her grandmother fine. The story comes with a
good moral story warning children not to talk to strangers and not to
walk in dangerous place alone!
THE END..
Brothers Grimm Google Doodle Summary
The December 20, 2012 Google doodle is
one of the longest animated Google Doodles yet, the doodle tells the
story of one of the most well known Brothers Grimm stories. We think
that Google have done an amazing job bringing us the “Brothers Grimm”
and “Little Red Riding Hood” Google Doodle…
The Doodle is well worth sharing with
your friends and family! Please take the time to share it with them
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Prices start at £849 for a model with an i3 processor running at 1.8GHz,
4GB RAM and 128GB solid-state drive (SSD). You can also step up to an
i5 for another £100, but we tested the high-end model, which costs a
hefty £1499 with an Ivy Bridge i7 running at 1.9GHz, 8GB RAM and a 256GB
SSD
