The World’s Most Potent Sleeping Medication Many people have the nightmare of waking up late from a slumber and arriving to work or school without any pants on. Fortunately, for most people, this nightmare ends when they truly wake up, and they are not forced to experience their bad dreams. For the main character in Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, the main character Rip, wakes up from a slumber to the disturbing reality that he has been asleep for decades and his loved ones have forgotten all about him. Washington Irving’s leaves readers many possibilities for readers to grapple with as he leaves multiple aspects of this short story unspoken for, aligning with the nonsensical characteristics of tales. At the start of the short story, Rip meets Henry Hudson and a group of travelers. He assists them in their summit up the mountain and spends the night drinking with them until he falls into a slumber.
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After sharing his name, “All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment exclaimed, “sure enough! it is Rip Van Winkle—it is himself. Welcome home again, old neighbor. Why, where have you been these twenty long years?” (105). Rip tells the story of falling asleep and he is quickly named an elder of the village. Readers my question why the villagers don’t at all question Rip’s justification for being missing.
In the realistic world apart from mystical and magical happenings, it is easy for readers to have questions about the unspoken and unexplained in the account of Rip Van Winkle. Despite the fact that Washington Irving writes irrational and child like stories, it is also refreshing for readers both past and present to occupy their time with lighthearted entertainment in a time when the world is very depressing and
After sharing his name, “All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment exclaimed, “sure enough! it is Rip Van Winkle—it is himself. Welcome home again, old neighbor. Why, where have you been these twenty long years?” (105). Rip tells the story of falling asleep and he is quickly named an elder of the village. Readers my question why the villagers don’t at all question Rip’s justification for being missing.
In the realistic world apart from mystical and magical happenings, it is easy for readers to have questions about the unspoken and unexplained in the account of Rip Van Winkle. Despite the fact that Washington Irving writes irrational and child like stories, it is also refreshing for readers both past and present to occupy their time with lighthearted entertainment in a time when the world is very depressing and