Sandhill Crane

and male characters have the same similarities. Traditionally, male characters may be recognized as having to be the strong hero, and females are supposed to be weak and the damsel in distress. However, in Sleepy Hollow, the main character Ichabod Crane is described as a masculine man that also has a feminine side to him. For example, Ichabod is seen swinging an ax at a tree to mimic the headless horseman’s distraught murders, which shows his masculine side, and shows how men are envisioned to…

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 interdiction, which occurred when he was forced to investigate in Sleepy Hollow or he would have faced imprisonment. Then the delivery occurred, when Crane entered Sleepy Hollow because he became…

Irving starts out by saying of Ichabod Crane that “he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man, than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and…

born into. Many people, in real life and fiction, are examples and success stories of this dream. Many other people, however, fall short of reaching their goals. In Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, that idea of the disillusionment of the American dream is on full display. Crane shows disillusionment through the setting and through the characters Pete and the titular Maggie. Maggie is set in the Bowery, a poverty-stricken section of New York City, during the late nineteenth…

The phenomenon that Stephen Crane created back in the late 19th century is referred to today as The Uncanny Valley. This valley is a graph that represents the spectrum as to which a person perceives an object as human and how it inversely grows less genuine the more realistic the object is supposed to be. By placing Henry in the Uncanny Valley he duplicates the tale of Frankenstein and his Monster but without giving the Monster a voice to express itself. Crane wants to be judge, jury and…

People tend to judge each other and act cruel to them if they differ from what they are used to. They make it seem like the person that is different is the monster, but it is themselves since they treat each other cruelly. In The Monster by Stephen Crane, Henry Johnson is viewed as the monster because he got his face severely burned. His face got burned from saving little Jimmy Trescott, from a burning house, now the town’s people see him as a hideously dangerous monster that no one wants to be…

the woods to the town was the bridge, and no one dared to cross it since Ichabod Crane vanished. The bridge, as I was told, was haunted. “Hello,” I called out, “ Who’s there? Come out, I dare you. COME OUT!” A twig fell. I started to turn around. A tree shook violently, and then, silence. I stepped off my horse and looked around. Something wasn’t…

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage was a revolutionary piece of art written in the late 1800s. Crane’s work on the novel brought about a completely new and versatile way of writing. He had never served in the war, nor did he ever have experience with the war but he recreated it with his imagination. Stephen Crane was an exceptionally great writer and has written many great poems, novels and short stories. Crane did not have the most respect at first from the United…

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is told from a third-person perspective. The only mind through out the book the narrator has insight to is the correspondent. The narrator suggests all four men are thinking and feeling the same things. Throughout the book the oiler is the only character given a name. The oiler (Billy) has not eaten or slept in days like the others, right before the ship sank he worked double-watch in the engine-room, still he continues rowing. Any time the correspondent tries to…

fever. He has nowhere to go so he asked Crane-man if he could live with him. Crane-man he did not live any a house, he lived under a bridge. The reason why he did not have a house was because he had to sell it, so he could get money out of it and live by that money. The monks from the Church would go every winter to give Crane-man clothes. Crane-man use to have a son but he ended up dying. Well Crane-man he made Vases out of clay. One day Tree-ear asked Crane-man, if he could teach him how to…