The Devil and Tom Walker

1. (a) The Devil offers Tom Walker Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) Tom first refused because he wanted to talk with his wife about it first. 2. (a) Tom’s wife disappears in the forest and later on Tom finds her apron with a heart and a liver in it. (b) You can learn Tom did not care for his wife and was very much pleased with the loss of his wife. 3. (a) Tom agrees to become an usher for the Devil if he got Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) As the story progress, Tom starts to go to church and carries…

from rules of form and personal emotions. Supernatural is one of the key characteristics of romanticism. The short stories “Devil and the Tom Walker” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” written by Washington Irving are good examples of romanticism as the stories are about supernatural stuff. In the first short story “Devil and the Tom Walker”, romanticism is evident when Tom Walker describes the image of the great black man who was standing directly opposite to him on the stump of the tree in the…

The story of ¨The Devil and Tom Walker¨ begins with Tom walking in the woods and he meets the devil, also known as Old Scratch. The devil offers Tom a deal that he will give him treasure for his soul. Tom then thinks about the offer but declines because he doesn't want to share any of the profit with his wife who he constantly fights with. Irving writes ¨However Tom might have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil, he was determined not to do so to oblige his wife¨…

these stories The Devil and Tom Walker, The pit and the pendulum, the Ministers Black Veil, and Moby Dick all have the theme of evilness and how it can be found everywhere within everyone. In this paper it will explain how these stories share evilness within the character and the obstacles the characters have to go through to fight the evilness. In the first story, The Devil and Tom Walker have evilness within the Devil and Tom Walker. The Devil is evil because he makes Tom Walker do things…

beliefs were rather different from one another. Walden, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Dead Poets Society all had romantic characteristics or transcendentalist characteristics which were helpful in identifying the similarities and differences between the two.…

events of the story. Macabre is used for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death. The Devil and Tom Walker, The Pit and the Pendulum, and the Minister’s Black Veil contain examples of Macabre events that add suspense to the short stories, Washington Irving uses the Macabre event of the trees to add suspense to The Devil and Tom Walker. The trees symbolize many different things. This Macabre adds suspense to the story because it foreshadows who is going to…

say no. Comparing the intention of an action to the action itself is often a grey ground, with the action usually being the deciding factor. However, in the past, this seemed to be in reverse. The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, and The Devil and Tom Walker demonstrate that people of the time valued the intention of an action above the result of an action. The pieces of literature found in the Romanticism period show that the people of the time valued intention over action. The story of…

Both Tom and his wife are very greedy characters. Her reaction, as described by Irving, is as follows: “All her avarice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man’s terms” (327). Tom’s wife eventually became so greedy that she tried to make the deal with the Devil herself, who disappeared. Tom finally makes the deal with the Devil: the former’s soul for riches. Washington Irving uses this…

Fiction) Twin Souls, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Masque of the Red Death, and Edward Scissorhands all uses gothic elements like environment, atmosphere, emotions, supernatural, and drama. However they aren’t always used the same way. The supernatural often appears in Gothic literature as something not of this world. (eHow) A vampire and the devil influence the entire story and the outcome of the story. Tom says this when he loses his patience and piety, “The devil take me!” he said, “if…

Both personalities are mean and miserly in the beginning. Tom Walker and Ebenezer Scrooge both engaged in conversations with evil spirits, but what surprised me is how brazenly they both carried on conversations with them. These two texts follow close storylines, however, even though both men try to turn their lives around to do good, Ebenezer Scrooge is successful, but Tom Walker is eventually collected by the devil. Paul Revere’s Ride is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…