The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. In Perrault's versions of the tale, she is named after her red hooded cape/cloak that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path. A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He asks her where she is going. She tells him. He suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does. The wolf then goes to the grandmother's house and eats her. He then dresses up in the grandmother's clothes and lies down in bed. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives, she is fooled into thinking that the wolf is her grandmother. The wolf then eats her. A woodsman later comes to the house and hears Little Red Riding Hood's cries for help. He cuts open the wolf's stomach and rescues Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. The wolf is then killed. Red Riding Hood is a cautionary tale about the dangers of talking to strangers. The girl is easily deceived by the wolf because she is not careful. The story teaches us that it is important to be careful about who we talk to and not to trust everyone we meet.