Humour Book Write up

We have all heard Bedtime Stories like Snow White, Cinderella, Three little pigs, etc but have you heard the corrected version of these short stories? My book “Politically Correct Bedtime Story” is a book with a collection of short stories and lots of humour. The humour in this book can fall in the category of comedy of ideas. The politically corrected version “The Little Red Riding Hood” in the book is very satirical.

The little red riding hood in most people's mind is a little girl who is on her way to see her sick grandmother but instead of seeing her grandmother, she saw a wolf.  In the end an axe man shows up and slays the wolf. However, this version of the story is wrongly written full of sexism and lots of lies to set moral examples for little children. The politically corrected version is almost completely reversed.  The sick grandmother in the book is actually healthy, and little red riding hood is just a very brave and kind girl who shows no fear of the forest. When the big bad wolf asks her “You know, my dear, it isn’t safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone.” She replied with “I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme.” This shows that the author is mocking the traditional example of sexism that is set in the children mind in the early ages. In the end, the wolf, the axe man, and little red riding hood “Decided to set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, and they lived together in the woods happily ever after.”

The politically corrected version of the bedtime stories is very satirical with good examples of morality and lessons on equality. These corrected stories should be the stories we hear as children not some non-thoughtful stories trying to set wrong examples that would affect us in later life.

I think this book is very funny because it uses ideas to mock inequality in our society in the forms of corrected versions of bedtime stories we hear as children.