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Mediums can be oral, text, and/or electronic. “Redridinghood” by Donna Leishman is an electronic medium that is somewhat similar to the story “red riding hood.” Leishmans “game-like” version does not use words though words are used to begin the game/story. There is no text and all we can hear is music playing in the background. A girl is walking through a forest and there’s a wolf following her then catches up to her riding a scooter looking like a half-human and half- wolf. Then she falls asleep while she picks up some flowers and then the game gives you two options to either wake her up or let her dream both endings are different but weird. The game allows us to end the story how we want to. Since most of us already read the original red riding hood we have an idea of what’s going on. What I understood from the readings this is an example of material metaphor. Although there’s no text we can understand what is going on. Hayles says in the reading on page 94 “The metaphoric associations put into play…reading text without understanding it and understanding what is said without being able to read it.”