The Three Little Pigs

The story of The Three Little Pigs featured here has been adapted from different sources and from childhood memory. The primary sources are English Fairy Tales, retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922) with illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke from the 1904 version. This story is featured in our Favorite Fairy Tales and Children's Stories.

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Verbal Elements

Writer’s Purpose 

-The essential ethical lesson learned from "The Three Small Pigs" is that difficult work and commitment pay off. Whereas the primary two pigs rapidly built homes and had more free time to play, the third pig labored within the development of his house of bricks.

Plot Summary 

-This story is about pursuing commitment to work, a work that is perfectly done is a work made by dedication and hard work. this story contains 4 characters the three pigs and a wolf, each pig crafts their own house and enjoy life but two pigs didn't do much effort so in the end they asked help to the last pig who put too much effort and dedication on crafting his house.  

Characters  

-Wolf, Fifer, Fiddler, and Practical Pig (better known as The Three Little Pigs) are the protagonists of the Silly Symphonies short of the same name. They are a trio of anthropomorphic pigs, best known for building houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, respectively.

 Setting

-In the Three Little Pigs, the setting is one sunny morning in the "big wide world," according to the pig’s mother. More specifically, the setting changes to "a lovely woodland clearing," where the three pigs build their three homes.

Theme

-The theme of “The Three Little Pigs” is “taking your time to do something right pays off.” At the beginning of the story, each pig built a house. The first two pigs didn't spend much time making their houses, but the third pig carried heavy bricks and carefully stacked them into a solid house.

Style

-The story of The Three Little Pigs is usually told in straight chronological order. 

Visual Elements 

-Visuals in the story are fascinating as its content it has different colors and setting, the colorful houses they built and background scenery.

-“The three little” by Lane smith Books that have the visual element of “shape” include geometrical figures like squares, ovals, and circles in the story of the book. In the book “The three little” by David Wiesner., The characters in the story were drawn with geometrical figures. The face of the pigs head has the shape of a circle, the roof of houses is triangle and the houses are squares. All characteristics of “shape” that convey action in the story.

 Illustrations

-it illustrates a picture or an animation to give life to the story, and it illustrates the journey of the three little pigs against the wolf.