Compare And Contrast Essay On The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Improved Essays
In the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving there are two main characters. Their names are Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. They didn’t like each other not one bit. Ichabod crane is the protagonist of the story because everything focuses on him. On the other hand, Brom Bones is the antagonist because he is always interfering.

There are some similarities and differences between Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. Ichabod was an instructor to the children of vicinity. He also looked different. He was tall and lanky. He also had long arms and legs that dangled. That lets you know that he was very noticeable at his work. In paragraph 2, it states, “To see him striding along on a windy day, with his clothes fluttering about him, one might might have mistaken him for a scarecrow escaped from a cornfield. Ichabod also read a lot books. In paragraph 4, it states, “He had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather’s History of New England Witchcraft, in which he was most firmly believed. In addition, Ichabod also went missing, and was to believed to be spirited up. These are a few differences of Ichabod Crane.
…show more content…
Brom Bones was a farmer. He had animals such as horses. He was also famous for his horsemanship. In paragraph 8, it states, “Brom Bones was famous for his horsemanship, and always ready for either a fight or a frolic, though he had more mischief than ill will in him. He was a very rough when it comes to anything. Also, in paragraph 8, it states, “With all his roughness, there was a strong dash of good humor at bottom. He was considered to be a prankster because he pranked a lot . He pranked Ichabod and know Ichabod is missing, and nobody knows where he is. Here are some of Brom Bones

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Wally Brogue Array

    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages

    He was naturally upset over his brother having been incarcerated for a crime that Mr.Benning had committed. As a teacher and counsellor, Mr.Brogue believes strongly in the power of talking things out and as a result went to Mr.Bennings apartment in hopes of convincing him to turn himself over. Mr.Brogue is a highly virtuous man who, like all of us in this very room, simply…

    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Comparison Essay Challenging situations are perfect opportunities to learn about someone's true character. In the stories, “Survival” by John Hersey, and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, both main characters, Tom Sawyer and John F. Kennedy encounter difficult and trying situations. John F. Kennedy was the heroic character and Tom Sawyer showed us the ups and downs of our adventurous side. “Survival”, by John Hersey, was a difficult book to get through because it tells the true story about events that occurred in World War II.…

    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    For instance when the characters Dallas, Ponyboy, and Johnny exchange items. All the deaths that happened. Johnny killed Bob and Dallas got shot by the police. Darry, Soda, and Pony are all brothers. Despite all their similarities they also have some differences.…

    • 288 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Ichabod's Brom Bones

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The legend of sleepy hollow a great story and a marvelous play, but are they the same keep reading to chase after the story you never knew. So the story starts of with a man named Ichabod crane whose name suits him perfectly according to the book he is a school teacher and a choral professor at his little school house. He is a man of many mysteries, for he has fallen under the spell of Katrina van tassel. One of his choral members who he gives lessons to.…

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The main character of the book is a little bone called Fone Bone. Fone is a bone that helped his cousin Phoney Bone get out of the town Bonneville. With the help of his other cousin Smiley Bone. They get lost or split out and think they will find each other in a town called Barrelhaven.…

    • 519 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although the film adaptation of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST did a great job at showing the dynamics of how the inside of an asylum looks, it left a lot to be desired when it came to character personalities. Throughout the book, the patients of the institution were given great description, sometimes to the point of monotony. In the film adaptation the personalities of the characters were brief and left out some of the complexities of the relationships between each other. This couldn’t be more true than with the relationship between Chief Bromden and McMurphy. Shortly after the introduction, Chief Bromden was forming a connection with the rough and tumble McMurphy.…

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    All his dreams and suspicions manifest into reality, revealing his vision of smothering furnace, patients mechanically moving and hanging from a production line, infinitely long tentacle-like electric wires strangling the victims. The next morning, Old Blastic’s death justifies his dreams, worthy of reader’s attention (82). For most of the book, Bromden mentions the dog who cannot smell anything but his own fear. The dog represents Bromden’s recovery to strength. In part II, the dog does not let fear overwhelm him and no longer runs in panic, “loping steady and solemn like he had an appointment”, as though he had broken out of his cage and knows he is entitled to his own destiny created by his own hand (143).…

    • 1042 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A good narrator can change a good story into a great one. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the author, Ken Kesey, takes an unconventional approach to choosing the narrator. Rather than selecting the main character or even no character at all, Kesey decided to use a side character such as Chief Bromden, often referred to as Chief Broom, is a quiet, yet peculiar character in the novel. He narrates the entire story from an observer’s point of view while pretending to be deaf and dumb. Bromden relates the events leading to the demise of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the main protagonist in the book.…

    • 1887 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ichabod sees that the Headless Horseman’s Head was not where it was supposed to be and wasn't even a real head it was a Jack O'Lantern, hint by his…

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story written by Washington Irving, and is a very detailed piece of writing. The story is very well known with many people throughout the world, and is even said to be a classic. Thus, becoming popular as…

    • 1182 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    They each show their own personalities through speech, symbolism…

    • 1565 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cuckoo's Nest

    • 738 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Mr. Bromden in the beginning of the book is quiet and does not stand up for himself next in the middle of the novel he starts to protest and in the end he becomes an activist. In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest it is written, After McMurphy gets lobotomy Mr. Bromden grabs a pillow and “mashed the pillow into” McMurphy’s face, (Kesey 323). McMurphy got lobotomy because he choked Nurse Ratched and when he came back to the room at night time Mr. Bromden went near to his bed. When he saw McMurphy had gotten it Mr. Bromden decided to kill him because Mr. Bromden knew that McMurphy would not be himself anymore which, would make him suffer more. When Mr. Bromden was observing McMurphy’s action he saw it influences other patients to do the right thing and that made Mr. Bromden change as a person.…

    • 738 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To Kill a Mockingbird Argumentative Essay In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the Finch family (more so directed towards Atticus, Jem and Scout) are treated with disrespect because Atticus had decided to defend a negro. In that age and time defending a negro was an automatic defeat due to the racism and violence. So why would Atticus put his family through a harsh time by taking a case so he would just to lose? Because Atticus has a unique look on the world, to set a role model for his children.…

    • 680 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the school teacher, Ichabod Crane, falls in love with a new girl who comes into the town of Sleepy Hollow. Her name is Katrina Van Tassel, and another man…

    • 1168 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Washington Irving creates this social conflict between the characters Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel in, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Ichabod Crane, a strict school teacher and singing instructor, represents the lower-class in this short story and Katrina, daughter of a wealthy farm owner, represents the upper-class. On the surface, the text tells a story of a poor school teacher who falls madly in “love” with an upper-class beauty queen who ultimately rejects Ichabod — or so we assume. However, Irving goes much deeper than a surface level conflict between two socially unequal characters. Andrea Tinnemeyer, Department Chair, English Department at The College Preparatory School, states, “by casting Katrina as the love interest and point of contention and competition between the two characters of Crane and Bones, Irving recasts the Revolutionary War in terms of a love triangle.…

    • 941 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays