10 Messages of Red Riding Hood
The first subheading, You often create your own problems, and the second subheading, Don't send a girl to do a woman's job, call to mind the Bolivian film Utama (from Runa Shimi ["language of the people"] -- known as Quechua [so called by the Spanish conquerors from the Runa Shimi verb "to steal"] -- for "our home").
The two subheadings describe a grandmother distantly -- perhaps dangerously -- dwelling alone and a perhaps underaged daughter doing filial duties between her domicile and there.
The aforementioned film features an older couple who function as llama raisers in a drought-susceptible, resource-poor, scattered, tiny community in the mountainous countryside.
The other community people likewise go about hard, lonely lives with their children growing up in great urban landscapes such as La Paz ("the peace").
The husband in the above-mentioned couple perishes even as the wife pursues that hard, lonely lifestyle.
Would it be possible that fairy tale-writing times went through similar tendencies of the old on their own and the young on their own from wending their way from their country, tiny-village homes to big cities?
DerdriuMarriner, May 31, 2024