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    “Rip Van Winkle” Imagine if you took a nap and woke up twenty years later, everything would be completely different. In the story of “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, a man by the name of Rip Van Winkle living during the period of the Revolutionary war when America was ruled by Great Britain, took a nap in the park and woke up twenty years later to a free country. When he awoke he no longer recognized the people and the village he lived in twenty years ago. This story is an example of an…

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    I believe Washington Irving’s purpose for writing “Rip Van Winkle” was to express the simple concept of uncontrollable change. To express change Irving used a clever fairy tale, drenched in historical truths. Reading Rip was entertaining, but unlocking the depth was not simple. My conclusion is this: on the individual level change is inevitable, the world is a moving place, but we have a choice, we can either change with it or stay the same, and even with that it is still up to the community to…

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    Magical ale, haunted crews, headless goblins, and witchcraft, all elements of these two short stories by Washington Irving, used to draw the reader’s attention. Both “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” share characteristics of Irving’s love for the areas he visited as a young man, his sense of humor, and a knack for alternative plot development. These pieces more specifically share descriptive settings placed in the same region, as well as Irving’s sarcasm toward gossiping wives…

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    A critique on post-revolutionary America, Rip Van Winkle wakes up twenty years in the future and discovers exactly what he once knew, his house, town, and faces aged. However, America has usurped the British troops and overthrown the government, which Rip discovers as he explores his town after his journey through time. Scholars claim that the intent in subtly criticize the new American power, and demonstrate through Rip that pre-revolution America was not what history suggests (Pearce 1).…

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    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…

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    How I Met Rip Van Winkle Today, I am going to describe to you the very day I met Rip Van Winkle. Yes, I know what you are thinking, that Rip Van Winkle is a fictional children 's story character, and that is not possible! Let me just tell you my story, and prove you wrong. As I was walking out of class on a rainy Thursday afternoon, I stumbled upon a man. This man was dressed quite peculiarly, as if he time traveled here from 200 years ago. He was lying against a curb with a rusted, old…

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    horrible consequences, such as being belittled, despised and the most horrible one of them, being shunned by the community one is part of. In this essay, my purpose is to show how damaging traditional gender roles can be, focusing on how Rip Van Winkle and Dame Van Winkle differ from the norm and how they are perceived by their community, as a consequence. In order to reach my goal, I am going to make use of the theories developed by Simone…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “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…

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