Then there are the wolves that form symbiotic relationships with varieties of feral children and are noble yet fierce companions. This is the animal the Chambers Edinburgh Journal described in 1832 as “hateful when living and useless when dead”. Through (almost all) fairytales we’re taught that wolves are the most ruthless, vicious and cold killers in the forest. There is the wolf Red Riding Hood encounters, the one who blows down little pigs’ houses. Anything else is sentimental drivel.” Atwood’s character was speaking metaphorically, but if this assertion is true, then is it also true that literally writing about wolves protects the story from falling into that category?īroadly speaking, there are two types of wolf in children’s literature. ‘All stories are about wolves,” wrote Margaret Atwood in The Blind Assassin.
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