Little Red Riding Hood Article Assignment

           Tuesday morning Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother were rescued by a huntsman after being eaten whole by the big bad wolf. The pair is doing well and the wolf has been slain.

            Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Elisabeth, left to go visit her grandma, Mary Adams, early yesterday morning. Red’s mother, Sue Johnson, teared up as she remembered her last words to Red before she left. “Promise me you won’t daydream and stray off the path,” Johnson recalled saying.

            That’s exactly what five-year-old Red did though. When she was approximately halfway through her mile and a half walk through the forest, she encountered the wolf. After giving him the details of where she was headed, Red strayed from the path to go pick flowers for her ailing grandma. The wolf quickly headed for the cottage and consumed the grandmother within minutes.

            According to local police, the wolf then put on Adams’ clothes and pretended to be the elderly woman in order to fool young Red. When the young girl arrived, she remembered having an uneasy feeling, as if something was wrong with the situation. After questioning who she believed to be her grandma, the starving wolf proceeded to eat young Red as well.

            The police say that the wolf quickly fell into a deep slumber and it was then that the huntsman, John Hunts, happened to be walking by. He described the loud snoring he heard coming from the bedroom window and how he knew it couldn’t have been coming from a woman as small and frail as old Mrs. Adams.

            Hunts remembered exactly what it was that he said when he walked in on the old the wolf who had been his enemy for so long. “Here you are, you old sinner!” he yelled at him as he proceeded forward to take the creature’s life. As the wolf slept, Hunts pulled out a knife and began to slice open the animal’s stomach.

            Red jumped out quickly and Adams slowly struggled out behind her. Hunts, now a local hero, skinned the dead wolf and rejoiced in his triumph. Red, who is very happy to be alive, only had one thing to say of the day’s events. “I will never wander off the forest path again.” 

What Is News and Where Do We Get It?

People get their news in all sorts of ways and my group was no different. Although many of us use TV as our main source of information, I was surprised that everyone seemed to mention a different show or station. Katie H. said she mostly watches WMUR because her roommate puts it on, while Ken said that he enjoys The Daily Show because it’s entertaining. Sam also surprised me by saying that he usually just watches ESPN and enjoys news about sports. This taught me that news doesn’t always refer to one thing.

On the other hand, Emily said Pulse was one of her favorites apps, but that she also has one for The New York Times and The Boston Globe. As for myself, I get most of my news from websites such as The Huffington Post or MSN. I also follow major news sources on Twitter and follow their links to stories and videos.

As we began to define what news is, my group came up with two definitions. It is current events and it is a collection of things that people want to know. Simplifying that, news can be defined as current events that people are interested in.

Introduction

My name is Katie Gardner and I'm a junior Journalism major at the University of New Hampshire. I am currently in English 621: Writing and Reporting the News I and will use this blog to post my writing for the course.

I am from a small town in the middle of New Hampshire and I have always loved to write. Currently I am a staff writer for The New Hampshire (TNH), the UNH student publication, and during the summer of 2012 I was a news intern at The Citizen of Laconia in Laconia, NH.

I hope to one day be a writer, and eventually an editor, for a popular women's magazine, such as Cosmopolitan or Glamour. My main goal in life is to be an author though and I am currently working on a novel for young adults.