The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

The story of Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle lives in modern day America before the American Revolution. His village is a pleasant village, at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. He has Dutch Ancestry and is a story teller for the children. He is lazy though and his farm is falling apart. To get away from his wife he goes and finds a Dutchman drinking something and he drinks and falls asleep. He wakes up after twenty years and only his daughter recognizes him. The first mythical…

Washington Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle” uses common literary characteristics to bring to life a new version of a mythology for America. Some of the characteristics he uses are a time setting of the past; a positive message about the people it is written for and about; and magical, mysterious, and incredible events. All of these characteristics help convey a mood and theme that allows the reader to envision how the US changed dramatically over a short period of time. At the very beginning of…

written by an American author named Washington Irving. Washington Irving is famous for this short story along with another one of his stories, Rip Van Winkle. Irving’s short stories were published into one book entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. with his pen name being Geoffrey Crayon. The setting of the story starts with the description of the village of Sleepy Hollow outside of 1970 Tarrytown, New York. The village of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown is known for the tales of famous…

Author Washington Irving who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the romanticism period. Particularly, in his work titled “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” written in 1819 we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the romanticism movement which was extant in American letters between 1800 and 1850. As a representative of such a movement, Washington Irving then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time. Washington…

When Washington Irving was just 19 years old, he began his writing (“Irving, Washington”). Irving started young, and that was good for him. But, it was not the name Irving Washington that was getting the credit just yet. Irving went under many different pseudonyms. He was not just a short story writer, he also was an essayist, historian, journalist, and biographer. Irving is known as the “First American man of letters”, and “The creator of the American short story”(Bomarito). He explored many…

Washington Irving was an American short story writer, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" who are both from his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon". "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story Irving written while he was living in Birmingham and published in 1819. Considering it has been adapted for a lot of other media like cartoons, films, operetta or even stage…

1815, Washington Irving traveled to England to help his brothers with the floundering family business. When that endeavor failed, he composed a collection of stories and essays that became The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Published in several installments over the course of 1819-20, The Sketch Book contained two of the author's most famous works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and made him a literary star both in England and the United States. (“Washington Irving…

much. It is as if they are under a spell, according to the narrator in the book. The first couple of paragraphs in the book provide detail about a mist. This mist is supposedly the reason why the people are sleepy; therefore making it the spell-caster you could say. The town’s infectious sleepiness grasps the reader’s attention right away. The story’s setting is a continuous attention-grabber that lasts throughout the entire book and the reader does not know what next to expect as the narrator…