Week 14 Storytelling: The Big Bad Wolf

Caption: Wolf. Link.

Bibliography: Ashliman, Grimm Brothers' Household and Children Tales, Link.

Story:

Chester was a bright young student who loved gardening and playing the harp. He was kind and sweet, but didn’t have many friends and kept to himself for the most part. Chester was the youngest of seven wolf brothers. Chester got all of the nice genes in the family and his older brothers were all cruel and liked picking on others, especially young little Chester. Chester was the brunt of all of the bullying of the family. Even Chester’s parents didn’t step in and stop the bullying.

                  When Chester would finish his chores, he would go outside to his secret garden and plant some of his favorite flowers. He loved all flowers, but found roses to be especially beautiful. He kept his harp hidden in his garden in a secret meadow surrounded by trees. When the weight of the world was especially heavy for Chester, he would retreat to his secret garden and tend to his flowers and play his music.

                  One day after school, Chester thought he was being sneaky and he took a shortcut from the path home to go off to his garden. However, his brothers were close behind and followed him to his secret garden. Once they saw what Chester was doing, they came out in the garden and started trashing it. They stomped around in his garden, pulled his flowers, and destroyed his harp. Chester was devastated. He wondered what the point of rebuilding it all was when he knew that his secret place was compromised now and they would constantly destroy it.

                  That day, Chester changed. Chester was no longer the sweet little boy who loved to garden and play music. Instead, he started picking on people like his brothers. He quickly became known as one of the bad wolves like his brothers and everyone started to hate him, too. The teachers and students were scared of him.

                  Chester grew up mean, and never had any real jobs. He would work at various places until too many customers complained and he eventually got fired. This was a common story and Chester hopped from job to job, just like all of his brothers. Chester eventually became a criminal because there were no places willing to hire him with the reputation he built for himself.

                  Chester started by selling drugs, but there was too much responsibility involved in selling drugs, so he didn’t last long. Stealing, though, was definitely more of his forte. He started by pickpocketing people at the local market and stealing some food here and there. He quickly moved on to bigger jobs, though. He would break into people’s houses when he knew they weren’t home and steal their expensive belongings. But Chester even tired of the robbery life, and picked up the hobby of committing bigger crimes. Chester was the local hit man; people would go to him when they needed people to disappear because Chester was good at eating people up and leaving no sign of them.

                  One day, Chester saw a pretty little girl who looked yummy with a red hood walking through the woods…

Author's Note: I really liked the character of the wolf in the Red Riding Hood story. He is conniving and eats Red Riding Hood's grandmother and pretends to be her so that he can eat up Little Red, too. I thought he was a smart character who probably wasn't always bad. I decided to give him a back story that made people understand why he did the things he did now.