The Three Little Pig: A Folk Tale

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Traditionally, the three little pig is a folk tale story that has many different sides too it. This story takes a serious turn too it that no one expected. Instead of your normal tall tale, the pig in this version, eats the wolf for dinner. Many sides of this story can conclude an overall theme that the third pig was the smartest. The third pig is the most admirable for several main reasons. He makes his house out of bricks, he does his daily tasks independently without running into the wolf, and he’s smarter than the wolf. To conclude with. he kills the wolf with his ruthless attitude.Therefore, the third pig is the most admirable pig because of his cleverness, hardworking ability, and his ruthlessness.
To begin with, the third pig contains cleverness that beats the wolf’s ideas. When the wolf invites the pig to go turnip picking at six, the pig agrees and the wolf is excited that his idea worked. However, the pig outsmarts the pig and he leaves five instead and arrives at his house in time before the wolf shows up. “Well the little pig got up at five and was home again before six” (12). The pig knew that the wolf just wanted to lure him out of his house, so he went to pick his turnips before the Wolf came to attack him.
Next, hardworking describes the pig as well. Instead of the other two pigs, he built his house out of strong, and stable
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These three traits best described how the third pig was most admirable: the cleverness of leaving his house earlier before the wolf came, the hard working of him going that extra mile to make his house out of bricks, and the ruthless being of him eating the wolf in the end. To our world today, this affects us because there are many versions of this story that ended differently. To conclude with, what do you think of this version of the story? Was this the original

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