Leslie Winkle

In Louise Erdrich’s enthralling novel Tracks, Pauline Puyat is a young woman of Chippewa and Canadian descent. Throughout the course of the story, it is abundantly clear that Pauline wishes nothing more than to shed her Native American culture. Instead of embracing her Chippewa roots, she wants be like her mother, “who showed her half-white”, and her grandfather, who was “pure Canadian” (Erdrich 14). While it is easy for the reader to assume that Pauline is willingly rejecting her Chippewa…

Much like Tayo, I’ve also had friends through the years that have brought out some not so great parts of me. Granted, my friends (as far as I know) haven’t tortured, maimed, or killed, any men, which unfortunately, isn’t something we can say about Tayo’s friends. Like Tayo’s friends, sometimes my friends drink too much, and sometimes they do stupid stuff with their cars. But unlike Tayo’s friends, my friends who do that are good friends and good people, which is not something I’m sure that Tayo…

Alcohol, in Leslie Marmon Silko’s, Ceremony, is used as a coping mechanism for veterans, while at the same time this substance brought to them by the white men is destroying the Native American community. Alcohol was previously alien to the Native American culture, and when brought over with such an abundance, so quickly, it was hard for the Natives to pace themselves as community. Furthermore, because alcoholism hit the Natives so quick, it was not likely that there were ceremonies were made to…

grass was dead, and I could count every cow 's ribs from a football field away. As I roamed around Mark 's farm, it started to remind me of the two stories The Devil and Tom Walker and Rip Van Winkle. These two stories have much more in common then some believe. In "The Devil and Tom Walker and Rip Van Winkle" we see similarities in the setting, male protagonists, female…

Similarities of “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle” Edwin Rolfe, author of the Murder in the Glass Room, once said, “You can never tell a book by its cover.” This means readers cannot tell whether they will enjoy a book just by what is on the cover. However, they can judge a book by the author of the book. Readers are able to judge whether they will like a book based on the author. Authors write stories that have a similar theme with similar characters and settings. We can often…

straight to his fate: a night to woo the beautiful Katrina fails and instead becomes a captive of the ghostly Headless Horseman, never to be seen again. “Rip Van Winkle”: Rip Van Winkle, a man who attempts to find peace during the taxes of King George III, only to find peace by sleeping throughout the entire Revolutionary War. Not only does Winkle , but his desire to avoid his nagging wife and complaints from his children led to him to a future where his wish was half granted: his wife passed…

Van Winkle, can be captured by the cliché, you reap what you sow. Rip 's life was not fruitful, as many years were wasted, causing him to not reap any rewards. The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, follows a man plagued by the obsession to remove his wife 's birthmark, in order to achieve perfection. This story 's moral is easily explained by the cliché, don 't look a gift horse in the mouth. Both The Birth-Mark and Rip Van Winkle can be well summarized by the use of clichés. Rip Van Winkle,…

Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” exemplifies the theory of imagination using escapism. After sleeping for 20 years, readers are forced to distinguish between Rip’s fantasy and his past. In addition, Rip awakens in another time, therefore his imagination, and intelligence is more developed than the townspeople, or his wife ever thought. Rip’s imagination not only created a free nation, he also freed himself from a nightmarish marriage. Throughout the tale of “Rip Van Winkle,” Irving paints a clear…

is necessary in life; Rip Van Winkle sleeps away twenty years of his life without missing a beat. “Surely,” thought Rip, “I have not slept here all night” (Irving 70). Washington Irving, author of “Rip Van Winkle”, takes readers on a journey through time and change. Irving created a national mythology in “Rip Van Winkle”, using strange and exaggerated characters, magical and mysterious events and a positive message about a nation that is changing. Rip Van Winkle is a man whose company is…

From the very beginning, it is clear that “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving is a story that was written with the American people in mind. Written at a time when America was in a constant state of change, and as its citizens were struggling to form their own identities, “Rip Van Winkle” speaks to the alienation many Americans felt during the late 1700s and early 1800s. Fresh off of the American Revolution, America was trying to form its own identity as a country free from English culture and…