3 LITTLE PIGS 

In the next section I am going to show you a very famous Roalh Dalh stories:

From Revolting Rhymes

The Three Little Pigs
by Roald Dahl

The animal I really dig
Above all others is the pig.
Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
Pigs are courteous. However,
Now and then, to break this rule,
One meets a pig who is a fool.
What, for example, would you say
If strolling through the woods one day,
Right there in front of you, you saw
A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in!'
'No, no, by the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin!'
'Then I'll huff and I'll puff
'And I'll blow your house in!'

The little pig began to pray,
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, 'Bacon, pork and ham!
'Oh, what a lucky Wolf I am!'
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.
Wolf wandered on, a trifle bloated.
Surprise, surprise, for soon he noted
Another little house for pigs,
And this one had been built of TWIGS!

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in!'
'No, no, by the hairs on mychinny-chin-chin!'
'Then I'll huff and I'll puff
'And I'll blow your house in!'

The Wolf said, 'Okay, here we go!'
He then began to blow and blow.
The little pig began to squeal.
He cried, 'Oh Wolf, you've had one meal!
'Why can't we talk and make a deal?'
The Wolf replied, 'Not on your nelly!'
And soon the pig was in his belly.
'Two juicy little pigs!' Wolf cried,
'But still I am not satisfied!
'I know full well my Tummy's bulging,
'But oh, how I adore indulging.'
So creeping quietly as a mouse,
The Wolf approached another house,
A house which also had inside
A little piggy trying to hide.
But this one, Piggy Number Three,
Was bright and brainy as could be.
No straw for him, no twigs or sticks.
This pig had built his house of BRICKS.
'You'll not get me!' the Piggy cried.
'I'll blow you down!' the Wolf replied.
'You'll need,' Pig said, 'a lot of puff,
'And I don't think you've got enough.'
Wolf huffed and puffed and blew and blew.
The house stayed up as good as new.
'If I can't blow it down,' Wolf said,
'I'll have to blow it up instead.
'I'll come back in the dead of night
'And blow it up with dynamite!'
Pig cried, 'You brute! I might have known!'
Then, picking up the telephone,
He dialled as quickly as he could
The number of Red Riding Hood.
'Hello,' she said. 'Who's speaking? Who?
'Oh, hello Piggy, how d'you do?'
Pig cried, 'I need your help, Miss Hood!
'Oh help me, please! D'you think you could?'
'I'll try, of course,' Miss Hood replied.
'What's on your mind?' ... 'A Wolf!' Pig cried.
'I know you've dealt with wolves before,
'And now I've got one at my door!'
'My darling Pig,' she said, 'my sweet,
'That's something really up my street.
'I've just begun to wash my hair.
'But when it's dry, I'll be right there.'
A short while later, through the wood,
Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
And spit was dripping from his jaw.
Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
She draws the pistol from her knickers.
Once more, she hits the vital spot,
And kills him with a single shot.
Pig, peeping through the window, stood
And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'

Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.
For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
Not only has two wolf-skin coats,
But when she goes from place to place,
She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.

When we studied Literature adapted to Infant Education with Irune we talked in one of her classes about Roalh Dalh but I have never read one of his stories before. When I began reading it I was spellbound.

I couldn´t stop reading it. At the beginning when I had only read the titles of the story I was confused. They were like the Disney films, and all my childhood memories came to my mind.

Then when I read a little information about the author´s life I thought that I would read something similar of Perrault or Grimm stories. But it was not, it was different than this kind of stories. As we can see in all his stories, they have a lot of tricky rhymes, they are like beautiful poems.

In addition, the plots of Roalh Dalh´s stories are different than the plot of this kind of stories that we are used to. They always have strong endings.

All his stories made me think about the meaning of life and the different points of view from which you can tell a story and that not all the stories can have a happy ending. For example, in Cinderella, he made a strong and decisive woman while in the Disney film is a sweet and fragile girl.

Finally, making a big effort I decided to choose The three little pigs, maybe I chose this one because I loved the three pigs Disney film story when I was little and a lot of children love them too. 

Talking from my perspective I love the way that Roalh decides to end the story because why can´t the antagonist win sometimes? In most of the stories the antagonist loses while the main character wins. However, in real life a lot of times evil wins and the good people don´t achieve the things that they dreamed of. In this story Roalh Dahl lets the evil character win in an unimaginable ending. Who would have imagined that the wolf would have used dynamite?

As we talked about in class, Roalh Dahl’s stories are not appropriate to use in class, but as we have learned in this subject, we can adapt it to use Roalh Dahl stories. For example, adapting vocabulary, shorting the plot, simplifying structures, etc. But from my point of view it is a little difficult to do this, because from my point of view, the story can lose easily the essence and magic that Roalh Dahl gives to the story. 

From my point of view the wolf from The three little pigs made sense in the past where people live in villages surrounded of lush forests. But now a days society has change and Why wolfs must be evil characters?  I am happy because some authors try to change this idea and they try to introduce the wolf as a gentle character as we can see for example in "Diferente" a book written by Jerôme le Dorze and Cloè Rémiat. 

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