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    Rip Van Winkles story was one of great importance and great meaning. It talks about many of things such as‚ lending a hand when and where needed‚ respect‚ and hard work. It teaches a lot more than just this. All of those things are important‚ but another thing that is taught is the importance of equality. When I finished reading Rip Van Winkle‚ I thought about how different everything could have been for Rip if things had played out differently. What I mean by this is that the story of Rip Van Winkle

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    Looking at the function of the story and the form it takes can help us understand its content. In 1819‚ Washington Irving published the first American short story called “A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker” published in The Sketch Book and Irving used the pen name Geoffrey Crayon but the piece is often referred to as “Rip Van Winkle.” This essay reviews Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” by first summarizing the plot and then second detailing the relationship between the story’s structure

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    Rip Van Winkle and the American Revolution Rip Van Winkle‚ the protagonist of the story‚ was a simple‚ good-natured man who is defined by many as “lazy”. In fact‚ his name is often used to refer to anyone who is content to sleep their life away or who spends too much time in a sleepy state. People of the town see him more as a productive type of man that is always willing to lend a hand to his neighbors. He is a very generous man when it comes to helping the community‚ but could care less about

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    The story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving demonstrates how Rip gains his personal freedom from his wife just as the colonies obtain freedom from the King. Rip wants to be free and independent ‚ so he finds activities to do in his community to stay away from his wife. Irving uses Rip to connect history and how important being independent‚ and free not only for Rip ‚but also for the colonist of that time. After‚ Rip wakes up from his deep sleep he is no longer deprived by his wife just as the colonist

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    Contrasting the Two Stories of Rip Van Winkle. The story of Rip Van Winkle was written in 1819 by Washington Irving. It was the first American short story. Robert Coover wrote Rip Awake 153 years later. It is his version of the continuing story of the man named Rip Van Winkle. Although both these stories have obvious similarities there are also many differences. These differences include the setting of the story‚ the character of Rip himself‚ and the mood of the story. Rip Van Winkle was written as

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    matures‚ it begins to develop its own national mythology—a body of stories that reflect and celebrate the nation’s ideals. A national mythology helps unite the people of a nation and enables them to see themselves as members of a distinct and unique culture. An important part of a national mythology is literary work that highlights the nation’s values and ideals‚ celebrates its heroes‚ and commemorates its defining events. In this unit‚ you will examine several works that helped give rise to America’s

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    couple of extra hours on the morning of your days to sleep in is what a lot of people look forward to after bustling week at everyday life. On the other hand sleeping for twenty years without waking up a single time is a whole different reality. In Washington Irving’s mythological storyRip Van Winkle”‚ the title of the story / character falls into a deep and long sleep lasting for twenty years. After that twenty years and when Rip wakes up‚ the fashion‚ the government‚ and the architecture of the

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    Fiction Dr. Archer Rip Van Winkle and Young Goodman Brown: A story of runaway husbands and there similarities and differences. These two stories by Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne respectively‚ illustrate different examples of men wandering away from home‚ for somewhat different reasons‚ with somewhat the same results with the exception of the overall outcome upon the men. Careful analysis of the two stories can reveal both the similarities and the differences between the two‚ and how those

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    fictional. Irving helped established an American identity with his writing style. Irving is best known for his short storiesRip 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‚ and witch hazel‚ and sometimes tipped up or entangled by the wild grapevines

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    Literature 304A October 24‚ 2011 “Rip Van Winkle” America’s peaceful myth Myths have engaged the human race for centuries. By definition‚ mythology consists of bizarre characters‚ remote locations‚ and fantastic events. “Rip Van Winkle”‚ the story of a man who ran to the peaceful refuge of the forest‚ fell asleep‚ and woke up 20 years later‚ is part of America’s own mythology. The reader is drawn into a peaceful setting surrounding Rip’s rather fantastical story. The author‚ Washington Irving‚

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