Comparing 'And The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow'

“The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story that was written by Washington Irving in 1820 and then was later on turned into a movie in 1999 by Tim Burton. The short story “Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is based on a well-known legend of the headless horseman in the small town of sleepy hollow. This short story tells the tale of the alleged disappearance of the main character, Ichabod Crane. This story, leaves you guessing as to what is the truth about Ichabod Crane's disappearance? While in the movie, it is more of a Hollywood version of Irving’s original story. As the movie begins in New York and introduces Ichabod crane a detective, who has his own vision of how to “solve” crimes. Ichabod Crane is then sent to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to solve the three murder cases of the townspeople. Although the movie is fairly similar to the short story , the movie ends up taking a twist that leads the ending in a different direction from the original story.
A major similarity between the movie and the short story “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is that in both the short story and the movie, the Headless Horseman is in search for his head in which he had lost. In a desperate search for his head, the
The reason why I believe this, is because it is the key story line that is present both versions of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” as well as it is what both the movie and the story are centered around, and that is the fact that the Horseman had lost his head and is currently searching for it, killing people until he finds