THE WEREWOLF

BIO

Angela carter was born on may 7, 1940 & died on February 16, 1992

She is was a english novelist and journalist

In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Summary of the story 1

A little girl plans on giving her grandmother baked goods, but to get to her grandmother she has to go through the woods. As she walks through the woods she has an encounter with a wolf, so she takes out her dads hunting knife

Summary of the story 2

She then cuts the wolfs paw before it could harm her, wraps it up and takes it with her. When she got to her grandmothers house she saw that her grandmother didn't look so good so she assumed she was sick and had a fever, so she took the rag that had the wolfs paw in it to use it to wipe away the sweat

Summary of the story 3

As soon as she took the rag she saw something fall out, it was a humans hand with a wedding ring and a wart on the index finger, and from the wart she knew it was her grandmothers hand so she pulled back the sheets and saw her grandmother with a bloody stump where a hand should be.

Setting

The setting is in a northern country in the woods
The setting is integral because it wouldn't seem right for a wolf to be walking around trying to kill a girl in the city. If it were a different setting the wolf would've been more discreet about it

CHARACTERS

• The girl as the protagonist
• The wolf/grandma as the antagonist

Point of view

The story is told in third person and the way the narrator describes things using descriptive language helps to keep the reader interested

The story does follow freytags pyramid
Plot structure
Narrative hook: when the narrator talks about the devil, witches, and graveyards in walpurgisnacht at midnight
Exposition: when the girl starts going through the woods
Rising action: the girl hears a howl and has crossed paths with a wolf
Climax: when the girl cuts the wolfs paw
Falling action: she finds out the wolf was her grandma
Resolution: her grandmother was killed and she now lives in the house

The theme is that people aren't always who they appear to be

Why it should be read

I think people should read this story because it made a classic fairytale more interesting and frightening by adding a twist at the end