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• Essay about Sleepy Hollow Story Compared To Movie

  ... “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is a short story based on the well-known legend of the Headless Horseman. In the book the disappearance of the main character Ichabod Crane, leaves the readers guessing what the truth is behind the ending. In the beginning of the movie there are similarities to the book until later in the movie there is a twist that leads the plot to another direction. Washington Irving starts the short story by describing beautiful scenic images of a little valley surrounding Sleepy Hollow which is a place known to be the quietest in the world. Ichabod Crane is introduced as a man known for his strict ways in teaching as a local schoolhouse teacher. Ichabod has an interest for “pretty sisters” as well as ghost stories that were popular around town. A famous ghost story known around town was of the legendary Headless Horseman. The tale was of a soldier who had his head shot off with a cannon ball and now roams Sleepy Hollow on his horse in search for his head which is replaced by a pumpkin that had a fiery glow. In this short story, Ichabod finds an interest in one of his female students named Katrina Van Tassel, who is the daughter of a wealthy and prosperous landowner, Heer Van Tassel. Katrina’s beauty along with her family’s wealth and crops becomes irresistible for Ichabod who falls in love and plans to marry Katrina so that one day Ichabod may own...

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• Irving the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Essay

  ...Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Irving tells a story of just this type of situation. Article Analysis In Greg Smith’s “Supernatural Ambiguity and Possibility in Irving’s ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’,”, Smith makes many claims on the occurrences in the story. One of the claims that stuck out to me the most was how he talks about how rather or not the headless horseman was real was left as an open-ended topic. Diedrick Knickerbocker, the narrator of the story, never actually claims a solution to what happened to the Ichabod Crane and how he disappeared. Smith refers to the fact that at the end of the story, Knickerbocker states that “the old country wives maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means.”(Smith par. 11). Smith also brings up the conversation in the “Postscript” in which a man is sharing the story of Ichabod Crane’s disappearance (Smith par. 12). The narrator of this part, who I believe to be Ichabod, ends the story by saying “Faith sir.. I don’t believe one half of it myself”(Smith par. 12). Another claim smith makes is that “Sleepy Hollow” might not have been as good of a story had Brom Bones been found guilty of being the horseman (Smith par. 8). Leaving the possibility of a supernatural event draws the reader in, opens up debatable topics and causes people to want to share their opinion on what they feel happened....

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• Sleepy Hollow Theme Anaylysis Essay

  ...Megan Ma October 15, 2014 Analysis Essay 4th Hour “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Theme Analysis Essay Ichabod’s incredible imagination can be seen and found throughout the text of Sleepy Hollow. Throughout this story, the author conveys his argument and messages in the form of many literary elements that supports his argument with the development of the text. The author uses elements such as irony, symbolism, and imagery to express his views. A theme that Washington Irving conveys through his work in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is how the power of imagination can create negative ramifications to one’s life. Ichabod’s development is a prime supporting example of Irving’s argument. “A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
 Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.” CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. This quote is from the Castle of Indolence. It utilizes the element of imagery to enforce Irving’s argument over how the power of imagination can be. It is clear that imagination is a very powerful tool to escape from reality. The quote gives a description of a land where one is always halfway in a daydream. It is in Ichabod’s powerful imagination that he finds much of his happiness and excitement in life; indeed, he spends almost all of his time daydreaming, and this allows him to escape...

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• Raven vs Legend of Sleepy Hollow Argumentitive Essay

  ...Reginald Brown English 2327 July 9, 2013 Making of a legend vs The Raven The “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the “The Raven” are both captivating pieces of literature because they capture the imagination and illuminate the mind, while creating darkness. Meanwhile decades later, both stories continue to captivate readers all over the world earning the reputation of being two of the best American folklore stories. Although Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe in their respective works “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Raven” use protagonists to describe events of the story, Irving’s text is the better of the two because his protagonist, as the underdog, is able to overcome physical and emotional abuse while becoming a legend. The plot in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” builds much faster that the plot in “The Raven.” The narrator speaks of becoming tired and beginning to doze however being wakened by a noise that he feels is a faint knock. One of the reasons that Irving’s story is better than “The Raven,” is the extended time taken for the action to build in the plot. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is favored by most readers because it is a tale of good vs. evil. The story sparks the imagination of the reader. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is story of rivalry between the two main characters, Ichabod...

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• Irving Textual Analysis of "The Legend of Sllepy Hollow" Essay

  ...Textual Analysis of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 1.) Romantic Description: a. pg. 715 - "there is a little valley, or rather lap of land, among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.  A small brook glides through it, with just a murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail, or tapping of a woodpecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility." Irving describes nature as an untouchable force.  He ignores the realism of nature and reveals only the beauty it holds.  It is the stereotypical description of Mother Nature.  Irving makes it sound so tranquil as if this place doesn't exist in this world. c. pg 731 - "Its limbs were gnarled, and fantastic, large enough to form trunks of ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air. The tree is almost created into somewhat of a creature.  With the limbs twisting out and rising into the air.  Irving takes ordinary earthlike objects and changes the perspective of them into imaginary matter. 2.) Avoidance of Controversy/Digressions: a. pg 717 - "...some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.  All this he called "doing his duty by their parents;" and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, which "he would...

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• Another way to interpret Washington Irving s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Essay

  ...Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which was published in company with his other best-known short story Rip Van Winkle in the Sketch Book in 1820, is considered one of the earliest examples of American fiction. Having been interpreted from many different points of view, this outstanding work is especially famous for its use of folklores and allusions. As most critics focus on the accompanying characters of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones, it is commonly agreed that Irving alludes to the two original American archetypes and to the conflicts between them. According to critic Allen Guttmann (1964), Ichabod Crane, the epitome of capitalists as well as of intellectuals, competes with Brom Bones, a Dutch bumpkin but rough enough, for Katrina Van Tassel who bears the same virtues as those of the delight landscape; she is “a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches,…” (p.346). Ichabod Crane, just like those European capitalists who wanted to benefit from the new continent, fancies not only the wealth but also the profit. He longs for Katrina Van Tassel because she “was to inherit these domains” (p.348) and he cannot help imagining “how they (these domains) might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle places in the wilderness” (p.348). He fights like “a knight-errant of yore” (p.349) but with a different...

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• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Essay

  ...The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The short story I have chosen to read by Washington Irving is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” This story takes place in a little village on the Hudson River which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally known as Tarry Town. The main character in the story, Ichabod Crane, who “tarried” in Sleepy Hollow came about for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. The main point of the story began with the arrival of a Negro with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a party at the Van Tassel’s mansion. After receiving the good news, Ichabod fixed up his best and only suit and borrowed a horse from Hans Van Ripper, in order to impress Mynheer Van Tassel’s daughter, Katrina. He did so by dancing with her upon arriving at the party. During the dance, Brom Bones, who is a rival of Ichabod, sat brooding in the corner full of jealousy and sorely smitten with love. When the dance came to an end, Ichabod was attracted to some sager folks, who, along with old Van Tassel, were gossiping over former times about the war. All of these tales could not compare to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that had succeeded the conversation. The neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow is rich in legendary treasures of the kind. Several of the Sleepy Hollow residents...

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• Sleepy Hollow Essay

  ...Reflection The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow is a story of a headless horseman searching for his missing head. In the story, the headless horseman used to cut heads by whoever his controller wants or asks him to be beheaded. It is a story that has a mixture of different witchcrafts produced by some of the major characters.If we say witchcraft, these pertains to a sorcery as practiced by a witch or witches usually with the aid or through the medium of an evil spirit. The start of the story easily catched our attention from the first part of the introduction of the book from the introduction that goes beyond the movie we watched. The background or setting of the story was a dark place typically from a horror movie itself. The setting of the story was a haunted place where the headless horseman usually attacked. The forest or the dark woods was the common setting of the story in which Washington Irving used as an effective setting typically of that of a horror movie. The setting used by the author successfully enriched and gained the purpose of giving the viewers or readers the highlights of a horror movie. Washington Irving gives us a brief introduction of what will be the legend of the headless horseman was.The power of imagination was very prominent in the story. In order to get what the story wanted us to imply it is where imagination takes place especially when we are just reading the story and never bother to watch. There was an event in...

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