The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by: Chris Grimly and Washington Irving How often do you read a short story for enjoyment anymore? You may be asking yourself that question, and the truth is, as a teenager, you don’t. So why did I read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow? That’s a good question, there are many reasons someone would read this story. One reason could be that your 9th mod Honors English teacher told you to read it and write a 2 page reader response about it. However, I am going to tell you another reason why people read this story. People may read this story because they can relate it to their own lives. We hear stories about bad things happening and a lot of times we think, oh this can’t happen to us. When in reality bad things happen all the time. 9/11 is coming up and my grade at school is one of the last grades that were even alive during the attacks on that day. However it is unlikely that we remember the attacks and the outcomes ourselves. We never got to see the country before the attacks so we don’t know what the difference is. Therefore we tend to feel like it can’t really happen to us.
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When in reality what we are being told are facts and really are happening. Just like in The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow when they were talking about the headless horseman. The town believed it was just a story. One created to frighten and entertain them. However we later find out at the end of the story that Ichabod Crane comes across the
When in reality what we are being told are facts and really are happening. Just like in The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow when they were talking about the headless horseman. The town believed it was just a story. One created to frighten and entertain them. However we later find out at the end of the story that Ichabod Crane comes across the