Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is an amazing book everyone should read. The setting is very magical and unique. And the characters are different like Rip and his imaginary stranger. The way Irving wrote this book is different from every other book. This book has a magical and is full of confusion. This book would make you want to read it over and over again.
The first thing a want to discuss is the setting. The setting is very magical, unique and different. This story takes place in a small town at the foot of the Kaatskill Mountains “At the foot of these mountains the voyager may have described the light smoke curling off from a village”. (p.62) This states that the village is at the end of the Mountain of Kaatskill Mountain near the …show more content…
Rip Van Winkle is the title of the story so it is obvious that the he is an important character in this book. But Rip is also a very lazy person”. The great error in Rips was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor…for he will sit on a wet rock…and fish all day without a murmur.” This passage is saying that Rip didn’t like work and that he enjoy just sitting round doing nothing all day. Another character in this book is the stranger with no name “On nearer approach, he was still more surprise at the singularity of the stranger appearance …He was a short square built old fellow, with bushy hair and a grisly beard. His dress was of the Dutch fashion”. (p.68) This stranger is sort of like our imaginary friend but to rip is a stranger that lead him to a deep …show more content…
“Ah…Rip Van Winkle: it has been twenty years since he went away from here … he was never been heard since”. (p. 76) Rip fell asleep and when he woke up and went into town he was old and twenty year into the future. “I am Young Rip Van winkle –old van Winkle now” this is saying that Rip Van Winkle took a 20 year nap. And that is only possible with a little bit of magic.
This book is incredible and the character and magic setting is unique as the introduction paragraph stated. In this story life goes fast and Rip wasted it by doing nothing. Instead of Rip being lazy he should use are time wisely and help others. Since Rip didn’t like to help other he wasted his life and twenty year gone by without him. We should waste our life doing nothing but see what we could do in this
The first thing a want to discuss is the setting. The setting is very magical, unique and different. This story takes place in a small town at the foot of the Kaatskill Mountains “At the foot of these mountains the voyager may have described the light smoke curling off from a village”. (p.62) This states that the village is at the end of the Mountain of Kaatskill Mountain near the …show more content…
Rip Van Winkle is the title of the story so it is obvious that the he is an important character in this book. But Rip is also a very lazy person”. The great error in Rips was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor…for he will sit on a wet rock…and fish all day without a murmur.” This passage is saying that Rip didn’t like work and that he enjoy just sitting round doing nothing all day. Another character in this book is the stranger with no name “On nearer approach, he was still more surprise at the singularity of the stranger appearance …He was a short square built old fellow, with bushy hair and a grisly beard. His dress was of the Dutch fashion”. (p.68) This stranger is sort of like our imaginary friend but to rip is a stranger that lead him to a deep …show more content…
“Ah…Rip Van Winkle: it has been twenty years since he went away from here … he was never been heard since”. (p. 76) Rip fell asleep and when he woke up and went into town he was old and twenty year into the future. “I am Young Rip Van winkle –old van Winkle now” this is saying that Rip Van Winkle took a 20 year nap. And that is only possible with a little bit of magic.
This book is incredible and the character and magic setting is unique as the introduction paragraph stated. In this story life goes fast and Rip wasted it by doing nothing. Instead of Rip being lazy he should use are time wisely and help others. Since Rip didn’t like to help other he wasted his life and twenty year gone by without him. We should waste our life doing nothing but see what we could do in this