Sleepy Hollow

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clark Hathorne(later the “W” was added) on July 4th, 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. He was born into a Puritan legacy because of his ancestor, William Hathorne, who emigrated from England to the United States. When Nathaniel Hawthorne was only about four years old, his father had passed away. So he grew up raised by his mother, along with his two sisters and lived with his rich uncle 's. When he was very young, he suffered from an injury in…

Let me start off with some background information for those of you who do not know what a “Zoot Suiter” is and how they came about. “Zoot Suiters” were often belonging to Mexican American Culture and often times were young in age, most under 25 years of age. These individuals were famously known for wearing a unique style of clothing, hence the name Zoot suit, and were usually found in groups. This movement in style and culture originated in East L.A. and rapidly spread into Hollywood and onto…

They communicate in their own twang, and stand at the curb with self-assurance. You pass them every day as you walk by. When you pass, you stare straight ahead, they beam, but you do not notice the longing in their eyes. A yearning that is not sensual, more of an aching after the same rainbow lingering across the boarder. It is the first day of school for your children, but not for Sekaj and his sisters for their family is yet to find a permanent place to stay. Sekaj is the youngest and the…

hang out at the arcade with the other guys. The person who was giving me my wakeup call had to be one of those who got caught in that trap and had missed out on everything because he was now taking out his anger on the back of my head. “Wakeup sleepy head,” the last person I would’ve ever expected said, extremely creepy in a perverted old man’s cackle sort of way. “It’s time for you to see me consummate your marriage with your beautiful bride. It’s a terrible shame that she had some…

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832, to Abby May and Amos Bronson Alcott (Price). In a letter to her father twenty-five years later, Alcott described herself as being born “bawling at the disagreeable world” (Kort). Louisa May Alcott’s father was a philosopher and educator, a leader in transcendentalism, and a spokesman for the abolitionist movement (Heginbotham). Fascinated by child development, he observed his own children in various stages, including,…

primarily made him a writer of the Romantic Period. Supernatural elements are common in Romanticism and can be found in abundance in the individual works of Poe and Irving. “ . . . the spectre known . . . by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving). “Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore”’ (Poe). Irving’s Headless Horseman and Poe’s talking…

The cottage like house staring Laney Marshall in the face was depressed and calling out for a match to rid it of its misery. Apparently the universe thought the ugly brown color of the siding wasn't enough and bestowed the house with acute scoliosis. The grass grabbed at her and her mother's ankles while they dragged their two suitcases containing their entire lives to the front door. Something about the dark green slab of wood separating them and the inside of their new home gave the…

a mere picture. It becomes blank, empty, like a hollow object - no powers or grace. A state in which you are unconscious and gone from this world. Powered off and dead. Lady Macbeth is Machiavellian to the core of her rotting heart. She sees no spiritual power to sleep, only emptiness. She thinks in terms of power and weakness, of danger and safety, of life and death - there are no lines between. 1. Lady Macbeth: “Go carry them and smear/The sleepy grooms with blood” (2.2.64-65). 2. Take the…

stories about people who were allegedly dead, but awoke years later. Maybe the captain fell down the stairs and when he came to, he thought he’d lost his body. He’s been searching for it ever since, similar to the headless horseman in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow who was searching for his…

Mahatma Gandi, a human activist, once said “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man 's need,but not every man 's greed”. This quote accurately describes the plot in the short story “All Gold Canyon”, written by Jack London, about man destroying nature. London, the author, a very versatile writer, a morally sensitive thinker, and an artistic genius. The short story begins with the protagonist, a solitary prospector, coming upon a pristine canyon in the southwestern U.S. The main character of…