The Hollow

American Hollow and LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton both deals with poverty; however, they both have different backgrounds in the movies. American Hallow is about a Southern family who lives in the rural South of Kentucky. The Bowling family has been living in the hollow for seven generations. While LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton is referring to another Southern family, who been living in the Mississippi Delta since the abolition of slavery. LaLee's Kin has another side story about Reggie…

1800-1865. In the movie, “Sleepy Hollow”, there was a lot of of American romanticism in the movie. For instance, romanticism in the movie are pertaining to a supernatural spirit, nature, and self-intuition. Ichabod Crane was a hero in more than one time in the movie because he used his self-intuition. Tim Burton demonstrates self-intuition in the movie “Sleepy Hollow” in a variety of different ways. Ichabod Crane used his self-intuition in the movie “Sleepy Hollow” by using it to help make…

Death” (1206) but T.S. Eliot only hints at it in “The Hollow Men.” Death and religion are synonymous with literary work, no matter the century. An analysis of five literary works from the nineteenth century to the present reveals how authors used death or religion…

What would it be like to live in a world of supernatural; to live in a world where knights fight monsters in order to win the heart of their girl? This is what the Romanticism world of literature is like. In the literature world, end of the 18th century, and the beginning of the 19th century was the time where Romanticism style writing was at it’s climax. It included fine detail, knights, monsters, supernatural, lush nature, and imagination. An author, by the name of Washington Irving, sought…

The Horseman’s Quest As the sun went down in the quaint town of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman flew out of his grave on the back of his mighty steed. His poor soul was still in pursuit of his head, which he had lost to a cannonball many years ago. His stallion thundered down the streets of the village as he made his way towards the battlefield. He was determined to find his skull, so that his spirit could be completed and move on to the afterlife. The Horseman would never let anyone or…

Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish both represent the Romantic era, or Romanticism, an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, that emphasized emotions such as horror, terror, and awe. Common themes of Romanticism found in art or literature were folklore, emotion, horror, love, nature, individualism, the supernatural, or religion. I am hoping to compare and contrast the courtship strategies of Irving’s…

anyone who stands in his way and not stopping at anything to get it. “Sleepy Hollow” by Tim Burton is a movie that is based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. Tim Burton took a creative license when he came up with the idea, and he transforms the legend into a completely new version that slightly represents the original version. “Sleepy Hollow” has a weak connection with “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” because the main characters are like different people with the same name,…

The main focus of all my research on Washington Irving, a Yankee living in New York, was to learn how the first American author pictured the world. Irving is widely considered the first American author not because he was the first author in North America, but because he is the first person in America to write stories “by heart”. What I mean by writing with heart was that Irving wrote with a passion, as he considered his work written for the reason of what he loved the most, humor. Irving wrote…

The Pitfalls of Communication Communication is identified as very important in both “Soldier’s Home” Ernest Hemingway and in “The Hollow Men” which was written by T.S. Eliot. Through these texts communication is shown to be incredibly important to the human psyche’s ability to cope with traumatic experiences. Communication in these examples functions to ward off alienation, be an incredibly important factor in displaying how soldiers change, and be significant in understanding the protagonists.…

cheap man and will do anything to get some free food. The families like having him at the dinner table because he tells great stories. Ichabod loves stories of ghosts and magic so that is where most of his own stories come from (“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”). He has heard some tales about a man who rides through town at night without a…