Response Writing 5

Group: The Three Little Pigs

Traishelle, Eric, Rory & Paul

Kazia, Estrada

English 1301-175

8 Apr 2016

#LearnToMindYourBusiness

Summary: “Those who are nosy looking into other people’s business will most likely hear what they do not like.”

New Historicism Criticism of the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf

After reading this version of the three Little Pigs, it is quite interesting how the story changed it's story line. Instead of the wolf just being the big bad wolf that he is, there are some similarities to how people behave today and in the past. The understanding I get from it is that it is like that in those times, if you were busy minding someone else’s business, trouble came upon you. In addition, people back then most likely did not deal too kindly with people who were destroying their property or taking their children away. Since this is an African American version, I think it is safe to say that the wolf represented a class of people who might have taken other people’s children away. However, the story does not say what happened to them, but after researching historical facts around the year 1908, African Americans were “sad & depressed” and they used their current situations to make their experiences into stories to amuse their family. 

Therefore, because bad things were happening to Brer Rabbit, he took matters into his own hands. Brer Wolf on the other hand was clueless, he thought that Brer Rabbit was being nice, but as most of the saying goes, “what goes around comes back around.” In those days, Brer Rabbit was seen as a sly trickster, so he had a few tricks up his sleeve for this wolf. After putting him in the box, he made his way into getting even with the wolf. Even when the children gathered around the wolf, he was suspicious but still clueless until he drew his last breath, but by then it was too late. Even after his death, his hide served a purpose to anyone who dared mess with Brer Rabbit, and I am sure no one dared to mess with him after that.