Birgitta Cockburn
Professor Hach
ENG170.29
2 September, 2019
Fur E. Wolf’s Worst Nightmare: Bricks and Stones

I am sure that all of you have heard the news that Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham have become another one of Fur E. Wolf’s many victims. He blew down their house so he could eat them and, like usual, was successful. Fur E. Wolf has been around for years, inspecting our homes for any mistakes that could allow him to blow them down with his hurricane-strength blow. Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham made the mistake he always looks for— their house was built from sticks and straw. Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham were my neighbors, and I would be dead as well if my house wasn’t built from brick. Fur E. Wolf serial killings need to be stopped, and to do so I believe that we must build our homes from brick and stone.  

As we all know, Fur E. Wolf is lazy when it comes to looking for dinner. He comes to our neighborhood to look for stick and straw houses to blow down instead of hunting for rabbits in the forest. This is our own fault. If our homes were constructed with strong material he wouldn’t always be around our neighborhood killing our neighbors. Before Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham were killed by the Wolf, I heard Fur E. Wolf say , “One meets a pig who is a fool. What…would you say if strolling through the woods one day, right there in front of you you saw a pig who’d built his house of straw?” (Dahl). I saw Fur E. Wolf lick his lips and, before I knew it, he blew down Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham’s house (Dahl).  

Sadly Fur E. Wolf is right; only foolish pigs would build their home out of straw when there are stronger materials, stone and brick, available.  

I have read recently that brick is a very good material to build your house with, because it is “durable, weather resistant, fire resistant, easy to make, and convenient to work with.” and stone “can be stacked without mortar and support heavy vertical loads…resists deforming, weathers the elements well, withstands fire and helps maintain stable interior environments.” (Elliot). If brick and stone can overcome rain and fires, it can also overcome Fur E. Wolf’s blow. Since I have seen so many people rebuild stick and straw houses in a panic after rainstorms and house fires, I know we cannot say the same for these materials. The benefits of brick and stone are so great that I cannot see why we wouldn’t want to make sure that all of our homes built from them. Use my brick house as an example, it was able to survive Wolf’s blow while Pig and Ham’s house could not. If their safety isn’t enough to convince you, having to make bricks and find stones could also create more jobs, so not only would we all be protected, we would have jobs too. 

Others, most likely wolves, say that brick or stone homes won’t protect us pigs because he, Fur E. Wolf, could just blow up them up with TNT. Fur E. Wolf is the other wolves’ god, and they only say this so his job remains as easy as it is now. All I have to say for that response is, while blowing up our brick or stone homes is possible, it isn’t any less possible with straw or stick homes. At least with brick and stone homes we can be protected from Fur E. Wolf’s strong blow. 

For too long have we heard Fur E. Wolf’s song, “‘Little pig, little pig, let me come in!…Then I’ll huff and puff and blow your house in!”, being sung in our neighbor’s home (Dahl). We need to stop making ourselves easy targets for Fur E. Wolf. We have lost too many of our family and friends to do so. I am tired of going to funerals that could have been prevented if our homes were being built in the way they should have been all along—from brick and stone. I have comforted too many families after they lost loved ones, and I am tired of it. We must protect ourselves or no one else will. We can’t always rely on Little Red Ridinghood to protect us (Dahl).  

No more building with weak materials like straw and sticks. No more being naive. We cannot let Poor Kee Pig and Hun E. Ham’s deaths be in vain. We must build our houses with brick or stone. 

Works Cited
Dahl, Ronald. “The Three Little Pigs.” The Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar,  W. W. Norton & Co., 2017.
Elliot, Sara. “5 Long-Lasting Building Materials.” Home & Garden, <http://www.howstuffworks.com>. Accessed 23 Sept. 2019.