Characters • Ichabod Crane - He was a native Connecticut‚ a Playmate and companion of big boys in Sleepy Hollow. He was also a schoolmaster and choirmaster in his place • Katrina Van Tassel - He was the only child of substantial Dutch farmer. • Baltus Van Tassel - She was the father of Katrina Van Tassel‚ a contented and liberal-hearted farmer. • Brum Van Brunt - He was considered as the hero of the country round‚ his nickname was Brum Bones. Bones was famous for his skills in horsemanship. Plot
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inform the reader of a point that the writer is trying to make. In this case‚ some of Washington Irving’s works such as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Devil and Tom Walker‚” Irving tries to convey a few points that are issues in the United States (and in the world) at the time in which these stories were written. Washington Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the early 1820’s. Both short stories were written based on different stories from different countries
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Karla Estrada Gerold April 26‚ 2012 Humanities Washington Irving wrote a lot of metaphores in the story‚"The Legend of Sleepy Hallow". If its the setting of story or maybe about the a metaphore about the charactors. In the first sentence you can see alot about the land Irving discribes or I can see he discribes the land like a woman‚ "In the bossom of one of those spaciouse coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson‚ at the broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient
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Winkle”‚ “The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”‚ and “The Sketch Book”. Upon returning back to the states Irving found himself in need of a place to sleep for a night while his new house was being finished. He spent that night at his sister’s house and was unable to sleep. Instead of going to bed he sat down and penned one of the most iconic American short stories to date. This story has had movie‚ book‚ and Television renditions and still sells in mass numbers. "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" is a classic example
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intricate‚ romantic‚ comical‚ and ironic writing style. Irving’s writing style is fictional. Irving helped established an American identity with his writing style. Irving is best known for his short stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. In the short story‚ “Rip Van Winkle” the main character Rip Van Winkle sleeps for twenty years. Winkle wakes up to a greatly changed world as Irving eloquently describes in this excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle” ‚ “…through thickets of birch‚ sassafras
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Father of Sleepy Hollow and American Literature Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn once said “Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.” Literature was not created “in a vacuum.” Literature was created in an open environment‚ it expands and reaches places that not everyone believes it will. Literature is made to express thoughts or to reach social issues. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s
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have won awards along with the book that it was made after. Most of the time the books have more details than the movies and are able to create a better plot for the people to follow The Sleepy Hollow is the first of the three books that have a good comparison between the story and the movie. During The Sleepy Hollow one of the main differences is that in the movie the headless horseman is real and in the book‚ the horseman is the town’s imagination. Another difference in the book is that in the movie
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Mount Pleasant Louise Buxton’s Mount Pleasant is a very uniquely written short story‚ where we experience a normal day from a child perspective. It’s a modern story from 2005. The story is told in first person singular‚ where the narrator is a young girl whose name is Elizabeth. ”(…) like the glue wee peel off our hands after arts and crafts hour at school with Mrs Kelly.” (p.2‚ l.16-17) Based on the information we know that Elizabeth goes to school‚ but also that she cannot be more than 6 to
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I am interested in researching the urban legend of John Henry. The legend of John Henry is about an African American male who manually works on a railroad with a hammer and was proud of his work. Others working on the railroad could not match or exceed John Henrys capabilities as it pertained to hammering railroad spikes. It usually took three workers to do the same job that he could do all by himself‚ just that alone caused a lot of jealousy and animosity for some people. This topic is important
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In a few pages of Stephen T. Asma’s book “On Monsters‚” readers are informed of two arguments by Gary Wills and Elaine Marshall. Both arguments tell readers that the theme coming from Stephen Crane’s “The Monster” have to do with the white races expression of hate for all black people‚ not just the one black person being lynched. “The Monster‚” is a short story written by Stephen Crane in 1899‚ about a doctor almost losing his little boy in a fire‚ but is courageously saved by a black man named Henry
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