Ideology Inquiry Sheet - identifying the invited reading

NARRATIVE:
The story is written with the perspective of 3rd person.

SETTING:
safe/happy/good places in the story is at the brick house which the last little pig builds by bricks.

unsafe/unhappy/bad locations in the story is at the house made out of straw and furze which the 1st and 2nd little pigs make. This is because it gets blown away by the wolf, then the pigs get eaten by it.

CHARACTERS:
Heroic: the 3rd/last little pig - because it kills the wolf in the end = happy ending

Villainous: the wolf - because he is evil, and plans to eat/kill 3 of the pigs.

POWER:
highest to lowest=
1. the 3rd Pig
2. the wolf
3. the 2nd pig
4. the 1st pig

it is naturalised by the 1st and 2nd pigs being killed by the wolf in the 1st half of the story, however in the end the wolf is killed by the 3rd pig. Therefore the 3rd pig has the most power.


CONSEQUENCES:
The 3rd pig is being rewarded with a big feast of dead wolf all for himself.

The wolf is being punished because he ate 2 pigs and tried to trick the 3rd pig and planned somehow to kill the 3rd one, however it was unsuccessful, therefore it was punished with death, and being eaten by the 3rd pig.


BINARY OPPOSITIONS:
Good/Evil
Good: will always win
Evil: will always loose no matter what (main message and idea throughout all folktales/disney stories

Smart/Not smart
Smart: will win
Not smart: will be eaten by the wolf

Therefore the better side of the 2 binary oppositions: Good and Smart is being privileged.
GAPS AND SILENCES:
-Where is the man when the pigs are getting eaten?
-Does the wolf have a pack? or by itself?
-Were the pigs brothers? female or male?
-Why were the 3rd pig smarter than the other 2?

MYSTIPIED/ ROMANTICISED:
There is an exaggeration to the wolf easily eating the first 2 pigs.

uncomfortable realities: can pigs actually eat wolves?
why does wolves try and eat pigs?
why are the pigs so easy to catch?
why are the pigs making their own houses?
why are the pigs all doing different things?

VALUES:
Smartness overrules: making a house out of bricks = no wolves can blow it and break the house.

IDEAS:
Main message of the story:
Being smart will keep you alive- will give you power to overrule the evil
(3rd pig makes its house by bricks - so it can never be blown by the wolve and be destroyed)
Take actions before it is too late
(3rd pig does everything that wolves tell it to do, eariler than the time wolve suggested, and in the end the wolve died because of its mistake to try and keep killing the 3rd pig)