reaction to rip van winkle

Rip Van Winkle is a short story written from the Dutch history. This tale was found among the papers of the late Deidrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province. The history is about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains to a much-changed world. The story describes the experience of Van Winkle had upon waking up after his twenty years nap.
“He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, none of which he recognized for his old acquaintances, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered: it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before… surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day before. There stood the Catskill Mountains—there ran the silver Hudson at a distance—there was every hill and dale precisely as it had been always been.”
The passage describes Rip Van Winkle enters his village after he wakes up from his nap. But to his amaze, he recognizes nobody and only finds strange people staring at him. He was surprised to see new people, new houses and young children hooting at him. He seems to be confused, if he has entered in the right village but, he recognizes the nature around there and confirm himself. The above passage delivers a lot more about a new born America, which has changed a lot in twenty years. The people and their tradition has changed while, the nature and the real America he identifies with is still the same. The passage reflects the similarity between the modern America and an ancient America two hundred years back with same core qualities that America got since hundred years before.
Today, America is an independent nation that host beautiful, mountainous country sides, high hills, beautiful rivers and towns and of course wonderful hardworking people. After, I read the last