Why did the little red hen have to make the bread all by herself?

Q: What did the Little Red Hen make?

So the good Little Red Hen could do nothing but say, I will then. And she did. Carrying the sack of Wheat, she trudged off to the distant mill. There she ordered the Wheat ground into beautiful white flour.

Q: What is the problem in the story of the Little Red Hen?

What is the problem in the story? The Little Red Hen doesnt want the other animals to help her. What is the action in the story? The Little Red hen does all the work herself to plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, and bake the bread.

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The story[edit]
Background and adaptations[edit]
Revisions[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
What is the story that is about a hen making bread?
Who ate the bread in the poem the Little Red Hen?
What did the Little Red Hen make?
What is the problem in the story of the Little Red Hen?

The Little Red Hen, 1918 title page

The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874.[1] The story is meant to teach children the importance of hard work and personal initiative.

The story[edit]

A hen living on a farm finds some wheat and decides to make bread with it. She asks the other farmyard animals to help her plant it, but they refuse. The hen then harvests and mills the wheat into flour before baking it into bread; at each stage she again asks the animals for help and they refuse. Finally, with her task complete, the hen asks who will help her eat the bread. This time the animals accept eagerly, but the hen refuses them stating that no one helped her with her work and decides to eat the bread herself. She then runs away with it.

Background and adaptations[edit]

The tale is based on a story Dodge's mother often told her. Originally the other animals besides the hen consist of a rat, a cow, a cat, a dog, a duck, and a pig.[1] Later adaptations often reduce the number of other animals to three.

The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose. Adaptations throughout the 1880s incorporated appealing illustrations in order to hold the reader's attention as interest became more relevant to reading lessons. Repetitive vocabulary is still used in adaptations in order to encourage learning for very early readers.[citation needed] A 2006 picture book adaptation by Jerry Pinkney was well-received for similar reasons.

An animated adaptation of the story titled The Wise Little Hen was produced by Walt Disney Productions in 1934. It is notable for the first appearance of Donald Duck as one of the lazy animals who refuses to help the hen.

Revisions[edit]

Politically themed revisions of the story include a conservative version based on a 1976 monologue from Ronald Reagan. This version features a farmer who claims that the hen is being unfair by refusing to share the bread and forces her to do so, removing the hen's incentive to work and causing poverty to befall the farm.[2] Another version satirizes capitalism by depicting the hen promising the animals slices of bread if they make it, but keeping the largest slice for herself despite not doing any work. A version by Malvina Reynolds adapts the story into a pro-work socialist anthem as the hen retains the fruits of her labor, saying "And that's why they called her Red".[3]

An episode of the animated series Super Why! features a revision of the story. In the episode, the Super Readers change the ending so that the hen tells the animals why she needs their help and they listen, enabling them to help her finish the corn bread so that she shares it with them.

References[edit]

^ a b Mary Mapes Dodge (1874). St. Nicholas. Scribner. pp. 680–.
^ "Little Red Hen ~ The Political Spin ~ Quite Amusing!!!". Sodahead.com. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ "The Little Red Hen".

External links[edit]

The Little Red Hen: An Old English Folk Tale (HTML version), Retold and Illustrated by Florence White Williams, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1918, available from Project Gutenberg

What is the story that is about a hen making bread?

This classic folktale, Little Red Hen, was a motivational tool used by Bullock. The story is a cautionary tale about how we reap what we sow. When the hen asks a duck, cat, and dog for help planting some wheat, she gets no takers. They won't cut, thresh, or mill the wheat . . . or help bake bread with it, either.

Who ate the bread in the poem the Little Red Hen?

Ans. Little red hen ate the bread with her chicks because the lamb, the goose and the cat were lazy, and they did not want to work. Q-3 Did the lamb, the goose and the cat do a wise thing by not helping the hen?

What did the Little Red Hen make?

So the good Little Red Hen could do nothing but say, "I will then." And she did. Carrying the sack of Wheat, she trudged off to the distant mill. There she ordered the Wheat ground into beautiful white flour.

What is the problem in the story of the Little Red Hen?

What is the problem in the story? The Little Red Hen doesn't want the other animals to help her. What is the action in the story? The Little Red hen does all the work herself to plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, and bake the bread.