Read the following passage.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Little Red Riding Hood. The little girl was very fond of her
grandmother, who lived in the forest. One day her mother made cakes for the little girl to take to her sick grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood thought she was such a big girl to be going through the forest alone, so off she went with her little basket.
As the little girl began her journey to her grandmother’s house, she left the path and stopped to pick some lovely flowers. “My grandmother will love these,” she thought. The little girl was so busy picking flowers that she did not see the wolf sneak up behind her.
“Little girl, what do you have in your basket?” asked Wolf.
“I have cakes for my poor sick grandmother who lives in the forest,” she replied as she walked back to the path.
"Oh, how nice of you,” the wolf replied. The wolf thought of a perfect plan for lunch! He knew his plan would surely work. He raced through the forest to Grandmother’s house. When he arrived, he threw Grandmother in the wardrobe and quickly put on her cap and night gown. He crawled into the bed just as Red Riding Hood knocked on the door.
“Who is it?” said the wolf.
“It is I, Red Riding Hood. I have cakes for you, Grandmother,” said the little girl. The little girl walked into her
grandmother’s room.
“Grandmother, what big ears you have!”
“The better to hear you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”
“The better to see you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big teeth you have!”
“The better to eat you with, my dear,” the wolf said as he jumped out of bed.
Little Red Riding Hood began to scream. Luckily, a woodsman was nearby and heard the scream. The woodsman rushed to the house and chased the wolf away. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother were safe. Little Red Riding Hood thought to herself, “I have learned my lesson! I shall never talk to strangers again!”
The theme of this story is _______________________.
