I loved how we got the opportunity to read the different Little Red Riding Hood stories. I agree with the author of the passage, you shouldn't always come right out and say the theme or moral of the stories. I love sitting down and letting my brain wonder, and trying to figure it out for myself. i enjoy figuring out the moral or theme more so than reading the passage. I personally would say that it takes away from the story.

When we read passages of scripture or Literature everyone gets the main message but then on a personal level we like to take it to the next level. In class we got the opportunity to say what the story The Baggage They Carried said to us. Everyone had different opinions and ideas the story and what the story said to them personally. I would go as far to say that every story even Little Red Riding hood has morals and lessons that are hidden from even the author, but thats O.K. because we all come at each story with a different looking glass than others and thats what makes literature so interesting. interesting in the fact that you can take one story and have fifty people read it and then have fifty different themes.

I would like to have a social experiment where we take a passage have the class read it and then ask each person what the theme was to them and then see if each person has a different theme, and then take a different group of students tell them the theme and then have them read the story and see if they can find anything different than the original theme. I bet that the second group wouldn't be able to think of anything new or very little at least. I hypothesize that once we are told a solution we only see that solution as it, but if we are given freedom to explore possibility's I am sure that many solutions can and would be found. BOOM baby.