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Created: September 24, 2001
Latest Update: September 24, 2001
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jeanne's Li'l Red Hen

The Little Red Chick Who Was Different

by Abel Beltran. September, 2001. CSUDH

Copyright: Abel Beltran. "Fair use" encouraged.

In the beginning they were chicks. Chicken Little and his friends were crazy about the blue sky. Then came a storm that had thunder strikes. They began running around like crazy, screaming "the sky is falling".

As for the little red chick who had always been different and an outcast, he began to run out in the rain in the hope that lightning would strike him and relieve him of his pain. The first rain is a picture of his sadness. As it approached, he seemed to be holding it up, expecting it to wash him of his misery.

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  • Responses to Abel's story: The Little Red Chick Who Was Different

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  • Other Li'l Red Hen Stories:

    • Little Red Hen Holds Up Hope of the World by Laura Wright.

    • The Little Red Hen A Poem by Latisha Ali-Ramlogan.

      Discussion Topics

      1. Why do you think the chicks were afraid of the storm?

          jeanne's notes:

        • Maybe because the lightning had once started a fire?
        • Maybe because they had once seen an explosion?
        • Storms are scary?
        • Something else that frightened them?

          Theory: stimulus generalization and apperceptive mass

      2. Why was the little chick in the story an outcast?

        jeanne's notes:

        • He was red, and the others were yellow?
        • He was a boy, and the story is usually about a hen?
        • The little red chick felt such pain, he wanted the lightning to end his pain?
        • What pain could that have been?
        • What could his misery have been?

          Theory: Inclusion and exlusion, difference and the "Other."

      3. The story doesn't have a very certain ending, does it?

        jeanne's notes:

        • Could you write an ending in which the little red chick remains sad?
        • Could you write an ending in which the little red chick is not so sad anymore?
        • Does the story have to have an ending?

          Theory: The interdependence of agency and structural contextand the concept of process, always becoming. And postmodern insistence upon the right of the local narrative.