Leslie Winkle

Bud, Not Buddy Modern Era Bud, Not Buddy, is read all over the country because of the Great Depression, but if it was written in today's times, that would not be the case. If this story was written in the modern era a lot of things would be different. Bud's mother wouldn't have died, Bud would've had more knowledge about Hooverville, and Bud would have been able to find Herman E. Calloway's exact location. I think the changes in this story would make it a lot more eventful. If this story was…

Ceremony Final English Paper The book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko details the story of Tayo, a young half-Native American and half-white boy who has a powerful relationship with nature. When Tayo was a boy, he felt connected with the world around him, but after he went to war, his connection to the earth started to fall apart. However, after the ceremony with Old Betonie, Tayo’s attitude towards nature improves again. The changes in Tayo’s relationship with nature seem to match his mental…

stories appear in American myths. All of the main characteristics of an American myth can be found in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” These characteristics include: being set in the past, having remarkable or strange characters, featuring incredible or magical events, and conveying a positive message about a nation its people. One major characteristic of “Rip Van Winkle” is the fact that it is set in the past and in a remote or exciting place. Because it is set in the past, the reader…

mountains from Dame Van Winkle’s wrath, but returned to a new world of foolishness after the Revolutionary War like his escape to Europe from the disappointment of his brother and the changes of the world. His humor always presented itself as Rip Van Winkle exclaimed, “God knows, I’m not myself- I’m somebody else- I was myself last night…, and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name or who I am” (Irving 43). “His necessary remove from the state of things, clothed in his antiquated Dutch…

Linda Ellerbee 's statement reminded me of the main characters in the stories "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle". Tom and Rip are two different people with the same personalities, characteristics, and lifestyles. Even though, Tom and Rip went through different situations, they still can relate to each other. In the "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle" we see that the author Washington…

Washington Irving’s character Rip Van Winkle was a man looking to escape his troubles. When he escaped he slept for twenty years. During his sleep wars were won and lost, a new country was formed and people moved on from their memory of him. Rip Van Winkle’s town, townspeople, and house changed physically and politically while he stayed in the past during his sleep. His sleep demonstrates Irving’s idea of escapism. Irving writes how Rip Van Winkle wanted to escape due to his troubles. Before…

piece of literature. When the figurative language is utilized it can establish a tone and mood for the reader. In doing so, it also allows for the piece of literature to be defined into different forms like romantic and Gothic literature. “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving have different examples of figurative language that allows for them to be classified as romantic and gothic. During the 1800s, writers began Gothic and romantic forms of…

Can books remove readers from their natural environments? In books, people can encounter a world of adventure much alien to the current realities of today. Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” contains multiple elements of Romantic literature: primitivism, imagination, and escape from civilization. While the present world features many complex technologies and customs, Rip Van Winkle’s world appreciates the primitivism of mankind with feelings of uneasiness with women, childlike…

people see marriage as a happy carefree life with someone you love, a unity where you both work equally as hard to keep things running smoothly. A marriage where the couple would do anything for eachother.Washington Irving’s depiction of “Rip Van Winkle” is what gives Dame, Rip’s wife, the justification to be constantly nagging her husband. The following passage found in the beginning of the story makes statements about Rip’s helpful yet inattentive personality, that can be seen as…

“Rip Van Winkle”, written by Washington Irving, is about a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle, who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later, having missed the American Revolution. The setting of “Rip Van Winkle” is in New York before and after the American Revolution. Irving uses historical allegory to create an American Romantic folktale that strengthens the national identity of the newly formed country. The main character and protagonist of the story is…