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    In a spacious cove along the east side of the Hudson River lied a small town known as Tarry Town. There resided Ichabod Crane, a simple fellow who was the school master of the town. The desire of heart was to win over Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy man. It was short lived, however, when she turned him down for Brom Bones. Heartbroken he went to a tavern, a place he never visits, and drank the content of an unknown keg. Inside that keg was a strong alcoholic drink imported from…

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    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow story is very similar to the performance of it. The play and short story are indeed almost exactly the same, but there are still some differences. Both they performance and actual story itself are great representations of the author's purpose, but the play is not as descriptive as the story. Although, the play gives a great visual of the story. Whether you're looking to see which version of the story is better, they are both very similar, but still have great…

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    Warfare and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow There comes a time when everyone is faced with a battle, whether it is a battle that requires brain, brawn, or simply charm to attain victory. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” a short story written by Washington Irving in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, examines not only the literal battlefield of warfare, but also the perceived battlefield of everyday life or the universal theme of battle. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Irving uses vivid war-like…

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    Washington Irving was one of the best fiction writers of the early nineteenth century. He was the first American fiction writer to obtain an international reputation. He was also named for George Washington, the first president. Irving wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the early nineteenth century, and the story took place in 1727. The story’s point of view was in the third person. The story’s setting took place at Charles Bay, near Boston Massachusetts. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” it is…

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    became a famed author of 19th century America. He was born in New York and became one of the first American fiction authors to gain international acclaim. Irving began his career writing satire essays, and he was specifically known for his works, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” In his work “The Devil and Tom Walker”, he tells the story of a man and woman whose greed was to such an extent that they both made deals with the devil. The couple found that their selfishness and…

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    Washington Irving Humor

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    The main focus of all my research on Washington Irving, a Yankee living in New York, was to learn how the first American author pictured the world. Irving is widely considered the first American author not because he was the first author in North America, but because he is the first person in America to write stories “by heart”. What I mean by writing with heart was that Irving wrote with a passion, as he considered his work written for the reason of what he loved the most, humor. Irving wrote…

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    The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

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    story writer composes “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to convey his views and ideas regarding Puritanical life. Another profound contributor to American literature is Phillis Wheatley, an African American woman who shares her personal experiences of traveling from Africa to America. She provides the attitudes towards slavery while also including the influences of religion in her writings. Both through descriptions of aesthetic landscapes and personal emotions, “The Legend…

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    Women In The Birthmark

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” can be read allegorically as a condemnation of the nefarious effects of the patriarchy on young women, represented here by Aylmer and his beautiful wife Georgiana. Georgiana has a birthmark on her check, and because she is other wise “so perfect, [Aylmer] found this one defect grow more and more intolerable, with every moment of their united lives” (pg. 419). Immediately the reader realizes that Aylmer does not see his wife as a human being to be loved…

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    “Snap...Crack.” A twig broke apart. I whipped around. The trees seemed like they were reaching out to grab me and then take me away. Who could possibly have been here? No one had stepped in those woods since that dreadful night. Even the wildlife had stayed away. The woods were dead. No plants grew. Many people thought that this was the work of the Headless Horsemen. The only object that attached the woods to the town was the bridge, and no one dared to cross it since Ichabod Crane vanished.…

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