Sleepy Hollow

Romanticism is an intellectual movement of the late 18th century to the mid 19th century. It focused on imagination, the supernatural, individualism, nature, and emotions, especially horror, awe, and terror. Romanticism valued achievements of the “heroic” individuals who would raise the quality of society. Romanticism was mostly a reaction from the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, which was a time of reason, science, and self-government. Some literature novels that contained…

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Short Stories: Young Goodman Brown.” East of the Web, East of the Web, www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/YouGoo.shtml. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a story that represents the pervasiveness and secrecy of sin and evil that is alive within all people, especially in the Puritan society that the protagonist, Mr. Brown, lives in in. Despite the Puritan ideal of being the the most pure and faithful community in colonial America, the story reveals the…

For his next three films, Burton explores the fairytale world. In 2005, he produced and directed, along Mike Johnson, the stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride, with Johnny Depp as the voice of Victor Van Dort and Helena Bonham-Carter as the voice of Emily. The imagery of the film is similar to the imagery we see in The Nightmare Before Christmas, but the nature of Corpse Bride is more adult and dark. The film, which was a huge box office success, tells the story of Victor, who was practicing…

There are many differences and similarities between reading a book and watching a play. The many differences include sensory, emotion ,and suspense. They may be minute changes or big differences. Of the differences suspense is one of the biggest. In books it can take hours to build up suspense and the author can use great depth and detail to explain a situation. While in a play they have a limited amount of time to build suspense and give detail. In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” the author…

Roger K. Miller was a retired editor for the Pittsburgh Post who wrote a few books for children entertainment; his most popular novel is a children’s book written in 2007 called Invisible Hero. He now resides with his wife and children in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as a children’s orthodontist. During the time when he worked with the Pittsburgh Post, he wrote articles about history lessons, one of which talked about Andrew Burstein’s novel, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington…

time, you can’t have a scene where you go upstairs or downstairs, due to the stage. You can’t show that it’s raining outside or that they were at a party and made a grand entrance into a gorgeous ballroom. For instance, in the story Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part of it takes place in the woods. Because of the stage, the cast couldn’t portray the woodsy feel, intensifying the suspense. In the book, they described the woods in great detail, that added more suspense to the story for me. Again, they…

The piece of literature chosen for this close reading is Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4th in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, the location chosen for the setting of Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne is known for is his works that contain haunting details that focus on the depravity of man, yet are skilfully crafted. The use of detail and many times allegory in Hawthorne’s stories makes him one of the most studied writers. This is to be expected as…

boy. In the Necklace, I imagined that the wife had grey hair, circles around the eyes, and callused hands. In the performance they didn’t make this detail as important, and the couple were presented as sad and poor. In the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, you never find out what happens to the Ichabod Crane. You are left to imagine whatever you my like. I personally thought that he did end up fleeing the town, and this time the director’s of the play thought the same thing. I would have liked…

living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction. In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in…

I knew from the moment I walked in to Sleepy Hollow park in Des Moines that I was going to have a good time. I was there for the Renaissance Faire during the Pirates and Wenches week. The smell of food and the sound of chatter was heavy in the air as a man dressed as a knight gave us a wristband, confirming that we had paid to get into the fair. I grinned at Sydney, and she smiled back, our excitement showing. My parents talked about the events as they looked over the schedule, but I wasn’t…