Oral Presentations Day 2

Today's class gave the remaining students a chance to present, and that included me. I was very surprised to see that most people chose to present a comparison of Little Red Riding Hood. I thought that I would be one of the only ones, if not the only one to present on this topic but never the less it was another interesting set of presentations.

Although most of our presentations focused on a similar topic, I found Josephs presentation particularly well presented and researched, and to me it stood out as one of the best so far. His analogies on the importance of the color red with respect to the tale was interesting, and it was great to see how he interpreted the color through his research, and how it represented so many contrasting things, like love or the devil. He made me see that the tale really is two sided, making notions on the importance of advice and listening to ones elders, as well as certain rebellious acts like Little Red Riding hood disobeying her mother in straying of the path. I feel like he had a good point in mentioning that this respect for the elderly and the wisdom associated with age is something that has remained relatively unchanged throughout history, something that is quite rare when one looks at the drastic differences in today's world and that of the sixteenth century.

Overall I felt that our group presentations went very well, and although I was not happy with my own presentation, as a class I think we did very well, certainly better than any other class I can compare too.