Story of the Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf.

I enjoyed reading the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with the author's use of language and text to engage readers and effective repetitive theme and structures throughout the story. When describing exciting parts of the story, the author used nice descriptive words in big, bold text which added to the events going on. For example, whenever the wolf came to try and blow the pigs' houses down, the author wrote that he "H-U-F-F-E-D, and he P-U-F-F-E-D" over and over again, adding a fun aspect to the text as it is being read. Also, The story was told with a repeated structure that stayed the same while the scenario differed between each character, helping the reader compare the changing variable, the building materials, and clearly develop a theme as the story progressed. For instance, the author told each pig's experience the same way by having them ask, "Please sir, could you spare enough for me to build myself a house?", but changed the material each time. When the big, bad wolf came for each pig, the author used the same dialog between characters to emphasize how the wolf tried to blow each of their houses down as well. This clearly showed how the little pig who worked hard to build a brick house was the only one whose experience ended well. This story presents the lesson that hard work eventually pays off and brings good fortune, just like the pig with the brick house ended up with a strong house and happy family. ( )