Transformations Question

23) The last four stanzas of "Red Riding Hood" make many references that equate birth with death. What are these references, and why does Sexton use them?

The last four stanzas equate birth and death because they act as a unity to represent the circle of life; when one life ends another life begins. When the wolf gave "birth" to Red Riding Hood, his time slowly came to an end because of his sinful actions. Red Riding Hood was reborn from her naivety and gained experienced from the catastrophe that had occurred. Sexton used this reference in order to parallelize birth and death with good and evil. The birth of the innocent girl triumphs over the death of the evil wolf. Because Red Riding Hood was naive, she believed that the wolf was honest and kind and that only good things would happen to her. But after her encounter with the wolf she got a glimpse of what the real world was like, thus she was reborn with experience as the sinful wolf expired. Ironically evil gave birth to good.