The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving is an author that is known for his unique way of delivering messages to the reader. He primarily gives a strong signal to his audience in the short story called, "The Devil and Tom Walker." Through this short story, he expresses the value of life through a character by the name of Tom Walker. Throughout the story, it is said multiple times that Tom and his wife have an extremely miserable life together and that they are a lower class, slipshod type of family. Irving talks…

Young Goodman Brown and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were both written in and about a similar time period. Hawthorne and Irving were contemporaries, and Irving was an inspiration for the writers that followed in his footsteps during his lifetime, including Hawthorne, and the similarities between these two stories are numerous as a result. Both lived during a time where the hypocrisy of Puritan values was very prescient in the minds of philosophers and writers. America was still a young country,…

The legend of sleepy hollow a great story and a marvelous play, but are they the same keep reading to chase after the story you never knew. So the story starts of with a man named Ichabod crane whose name suits him perfectly according to the book he is a school teacher and a choral professor at his little school house. He is a man of many mysteries, for he has fallen under the spell of Katrina van tassel. One of his choral members who he gives lessons to. Wait This essay is not a summary, let's…

Final American Literature paper The three works that I chose to write about for my final paper for this class are the “Way to Wealth” (1758) by Benjamin Franklin “The Raven” by Edger Allan Poe and “The legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. The reason that I chose to write about these three pieces is that they really stuck out to me the most in this class. The Way to Wealth stuck out to me one because I had never read it before so it was nice to read something new and it also made me…

Foreshadow - be a warning or indication of a future events. Ichabod sat in a room in the home of Katrina, he looked about his eyes filled with wonder and he envied all the little things about their way of life. He wanted to be rich, so he was determent to win Katrina’s heart. There was another man though that was very in love with Katrina, you could say he was the jock of the town. He was a very mystifies man always causing trouble, if there was a prank he would be the one behind it all. Ichabod…

Scarecrow(Master of Fear) Imagine your deepest darkest fears coming alive! Scarecrow also known as Jonathan Crane is a villain in American comic books. Scarecrow's is mostly a adversary of Batman and Robin. Scarecrow was created in the fall of 1941 by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. In fact he was one of Batman's earliest foes. First things first is Scarecrows origin. Jonathan Crane was a psychology professor who had gotten rejected by all the educators because of the attire he wore. Crane was…

As discussed in class, gothic stories are a combination of horror and romanticism. In the novel Sleepy Hollow, several elements of the Gothic genre are displayed. These elements include supernatural events that are similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The lack of class structure, history, and continuity in America is Tim Burton’s Sleepy is a different aspects of Irving’s original story that offers the European contrast, the film fundamentally relies on isolation, cultural differences, and ghost…

Stephen Crane was introduced to the gruesome world on November 1, 1871. Crane was the youngest of 14. Sadly, he was one of nine that managed to survive. Crane moved from place to place like ants do when carrying food. Crane’s dad, a Methodist minister, unfortunately, died on February 16, 1880. Still, his family moved like a madman. On most free time that Crane had he would spend it writing. Later on, Crane got a scholarship to play baseball at Syracuse University. However, in very little time…

In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”, published in 1824 by Washington Irving, a conversion from an illustrative, descriptive tone to a revealing tone is a technique the author uses to give the reader an insight into the selfishness and greed of the character Tom Walker and his wife. Many literary elements are used in writings from this period in time and even writings from the present in order to convey a lesson, or moral, for the person reading to take away from the piece of literature…

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…