Response to: How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten

In the poem http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/how_little_red_riding_hood_came_to_be_eaten.html (How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten) by Guy Wetmore Carryl is a poem explaining what happened during Little Red Riding Hoods life before she got eaten. Her parents were clever and cautious.  Red's parents showed her ways around.  If she was obedient she was thanked, anything else she was spanked.  Red's at 6 years old was generous and smart. At 13 years old she was learning to be a professional nurse.  One part of the poem it says "The young paragon might have grown, if not nipped in the bud, but the following year struck her smiling career with a dull and sickening thud!" Red obviously got hurt somehow. Paragon means an example of excellence: somebody or something that is the very best example of something, so Red was someone people looked up to. She had a basket on her arm filled with " Jellies, ices, gruel, spices, grilled chicken legs, savory stew, a novel or two, hot-water can, Japanese fan, and a bottle of eau-de-cologne." Red did not recognize the Grandma because it was not her grandma it was a wolf. Guy added a lot of emotion to the poem and that made it more fun to read. I like how Guy added a moral to the story.