Sleepy Hollow Analysis

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Sleepy Hollow is a cold, foggy, place that barely anyone visits. It is where the legend of the Headless Horseman began. They say that the Headless Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who got his head shot off by a cannonball in the Civil War, and has been searching for his head on the path of the Sleepy Hollow bridge ever since.

Brom Van Brunt is a very muscular, charismatic man who lives in Sleepy Hollow. He has a crush on a young woman named Katrina, who is extensively the most beautiful woman in the town. However, another individual named Ichabod Crane had recently moved into the town as a school teacher and a singing teacher, he had caught the eye of Katrina in his singing class and began to form a relationship with her. This made
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“What the devil is that sound?” Ichabod wondered. The sound got closer and closer, Ichabod began to get frightened. “Oh dear… Could it be…,” he uttered fearfully. What he saw was a man with no head riding horse coming right for him. “IT IS!!” Ichabod squawked. Being a man with a brain, Ichabod ran for his life back to the school where hid for the rest of that night. When he was gone the horseman got off of his horse and is shown to have his shirt over his still attached head. When he put down his shirt, the horseman is revealed to be Brom! “HA HA HA!!” Brom laughed, “That will show that womanizer, if I do this a few more times he’ll surely be out of this town before the week’s end.” Brom laughed once more feeling confident about his diabolical forethought.

For the next 4 days, Brom would dress up as the Headless Horseman and ride his horse down the path to scare Ichabod back into his school. Brom, interestingly enough, found it cathartic to commit such a heinous act upon Ichabod. Ichabod, however, unaware that it was Brom in disguise, had had enough of these childish shenanigans and decided to take action. “Ghost or no ghost,” he said, “I’m ending this

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