The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Book And Movie Analysis

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Register to read the introduction… So, there was added an episode with the cow in the forest, with the spoons in Van Tassel’s home, or Katrina’s story on the porch before Ichabod left. In return, it wasn’t shown how Ichabod Crane helped inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow: “He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire” (Baym 968). In the story Irving doesn’t tell us what was the conversation after the Harvest festival between Katrina and Ichabod about. He just mentions, “Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen. Oh, these women! these women!” (Baym 978). In the movie it is explained that Katrina heard unpleasant (for her) conversation between Ichabod and Baltus Van Tassel about her, and she tells it to Ichabod after the Harvest feast. Also, in the book we can find numerous descriptions of meals and comparisons with food. Irving’s description of the simplest meal makes your mouth water. In the movie it is not reached, I think. The end of the movie also differs from the book and left a lot to be imagined. Episode with pumpkin isn’t described clearly in the …show more content…
It still catches the eye how Sleepy Hollow is described in the book. The name is consistent with that lifestyle, which led its inhabitants. “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.” (Baym 965) ‘However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions’ (Baym 966). To my mind, in the movie it is impossible to express such feelings as the author of the book …show more content…
Another place of action is Van Tassel’s mansion. ‘It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high- ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather’ (Baym 971). Given descriptions are similar to what is shown in the movie. Maybe not to the smallest details, but I don’t think that was the main aim of the director. General idea is

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