Little Red Riding Hood in the Red light district was written by Manlio Argueta in the year 1977. This is a story about military repression in El Salvador in the 1970s. The text talks about the rebellion of students against military repression. How these young people were killed in the revolution. The story has multiple characters but the main characters are Hormiga, who is the Red Riding Hood, and Alonso. Hormiga is a romantic girl and a university student who actively participate in all the student demonstrations. Her grandmother’s house, which like in the classic fairytale, is a safe and secured place whereas the wolves are the civil guards. The red zone or the “red light district” refers to the political activity and the urban violence that the Salvadorians confronted during the seventies. Alonso is also an active participant in the guerrilla movement along with other characters like Manolo, Pichon, Felipe etc. Apart from discussing the important consequences of the revolution, the most striking aspect of the text is the structure of the novel. The story is narrated in a form of a dialogue. There is an “I” who is narrating the story but this “I” is interrupted constantly by many other voices and there is no clear demarcation about the shifts of narratorial voice. Therefore it makes the text complex and difficult to understand. The story is narrated not just in a form of a dialogue but also through letters that Hormiga writes to Alonso when they are apart, it also has elements of intertextuality from the fairy tale Little Red riding hood where the metaphor of Red riding hood is for Hormiga, a rebellion, and the wolf is for the policeman (Pg 57). Metaphor is one of the important strategies that the author has used in the book, especially the articles written by Feliciano for their news paper in page 73 where he targets the political and the elite class of his country by comparing them with the prehistoric animals and the barbarians and which always used to be censored from being published by his colleagues. Apart from metaphor the other important aspect of the novel is giving importance to poetry. The text in many ways is using the literary aspects to communicate about the condition of the state (metaphors, intertextuality, poetry, memory – when Alonso talks about his father and how he was killed by the military while instructing people to loot the possession of the rich people {Pg 28 – 29}, and interviews {Pg 210 – 214}) however, it is also political in nature not just because it is talking about the student revolution or the oppression by the state but also shares opinion on consumerism “It’s a way of showing off our riches, turning ourselves into mannequins of conspicuous consumption, helium balloons of this beautiful medieval age with automobiles and window seats” (Pg 6) and talks about the indifferences that developed within the guerrilla group. Edward Waters Hood in the translator’s note says that “Structurally, Little Red Ridinghood in the Red Light District is a complex novel, with juxtaposed episodes, each with different time frames and points of view. This technique forces the reader to participate actively in the construction of the novel. Stylistically, the text reproduces the colloquial speech of its character from San Salvador”.