My Sleepy Hollow

A small town life is seen as many things to many different people. Some see living in a small town as a chance for more opportunities; others see it as a blueprint for insanity. However, as I read Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, I perceived his interpretation of said life, as a celebration. Thorton Wilder adds a variety of happy experiences and sense of community and familiarity, which I believe is why the habitants of the town love their home.

When we arrived at the house, I stood there for about five seconds before knocking on the door. They didn’t answer at first, so I knocked again, harder, and then saw the handle start to move. My stomach filled with butterflies as I watched the door slowly open. The face that greeted was one of a two year old, and as I looked up I saw her father standing over her.

Washington Irving, is the author of the tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” that was written in the nineteenth century (Baym 25). Irving was born in New York City on April 3rd, 1783 and was the last of eleven children. At home, Irving read a wide range of English literature and delighted in many other writers, including Shakespeare, Oliver Goldsmith, and Laurence Sterne. In 1830 Irving bought and began refurbishing a house along the Hudson River near Tarrytown (Baym 25). The beginning of Irving’s tale opens up with the description of the charming Hudson Valley region of Sleepy Hollow near Tarrytown. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” represents a popular tale in Irving’s book, The Sketch Book (Baym 25). It’s ghostly tale that talks about a mysterious Headless Horseman that is said to be a Hessian trooper who lost his head by a cannon ball during battle. It is said that every night the Headless Horseman roams the countryside in search of his head. There is an unlikely hero in this tale named Ichabod Crane, but to the people of Sleepy Hollow the real hero is Brom Bones.

Capitalism can be defined as “when monetary wealth was enabled to buy labor power” (Wolf et al. 77). By the time that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was written, Capitalism was the dominant mode of production, and capitalist markets were spreading rapidly. This became especially true in the United States of America, which was heavily influenced by the British in matters of economy. Since capitalism was born in England, the influence of capitalism bled over into America while they were still under British rule (Wolf et al. 2670). However, by 1820, the year that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published, the United States fully adopted the capitalist mode of production, along with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. This embrace of the new economic system changed the ways of life for people in both New England and New York, along with the entirety of the country.

Although many people would love to live a simplistic, on-the-go lifestyle, others would not. Tiny homes can seem to get a bit crammed for a larger family. One of the common conflicts of living in these tiny homes is the difference in “living by choice in a chic shack” and being “forced into a micro-room… because [that is] all [one] can afford.” For families with children, the 190 square feet of living space can become a claustrophobic’s nightmare. These tightly packed homes unfortunately will almost impossibly provide enough room for a larger scaled family. There is simply not enough living space. It is difficult to “imagine anyone… not going bonkers in them” ("Teeny House, Big Life"). Not to mention, the lack of privacy would be extremely high. The village-like neighborhoods that these homes are generally built in are based on the idea of social interactions with one another, ensuring that the residents in the area are able to “[foster] a strong sense of community.” Not every person desires to always maintain relations with local residents, so the idea of almost forcing conversation among people can, in some way, invade ones privacy. In addition, numerous limitations can come along with the possession of a tiny home. Restrictions are set depending on the community desired for the tiny home. Limitations on the structure of the tiny home are set. Fraying away from the status quo causes

Washington Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in 1820. It tells the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster who persistently frightens himself with supernatural beings he supposes he sees and hears on his way home from school. Later in the story, Crane threatens to take away the love of a lady from a man named Abraham Van Brunt. This man, known as Brom Bones to the townspeople, took advantage of Ichabod Crane’s credulousness to scare him out of town through a prank in which he impersonated the dreaded Headless Horseman, the ghost of Sleepy Hollow. This caused Ichabod to flee town out of terror. Ichabod Crane’s characteristics of superstition, greed, and fearfulness ended up causing his downfall.

On a long dirt road in a wooden farmhouse in Mississippi, lived Bessie Vanburen, her 4 children, and her husband John Vanburen. Bessie was a beloved mother who did everything for everyone else before seeing about herself. She had 3 ?boys and 1 girl. Jackson & Justin were the oldest boys who were identical twins. Jonathan was the middle son who had autism where he needed proper care for his health. Jennifer was the only girl & the baby who was always whining about having to do stuff with her brothers all the time. Bessie was a very caring young woman who didn?t work but did housewife chores all day every day. ?The more dirt around the house the more she felt the need to clean up. At the age of 16 Bessie found love while playing in the field yard with some friends. Mr. John Vanburen took her hand in marriage and started a family with her. Although, Bessie was a slave she was very sick but was too busy to focus on her health. ?She stayed in the field majority of the day while her husband go? out and work to provide. The kids would be tagging along with her because there weren?t any babysitters around the way. Bessie was very young with a life of her own. She had lost both of her parents in war ?and grew up raising herself after her grandparent?s? passed. Everything that the family had for dinner was

There are many reasons to like a book or story. Everyone is interested in a variety of genres and series that tend to their personal interests in things. Some books are super suspenseful and leave you incapable of putting the book down because you have to know what happens next; others though are just on subjects that have educational knowledge on something you want to know more about. There are so many different ways to write like, romantic fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, etc. From all of those choices, each reader finds something different that they have a passion for. Throughout the stories we have read over the summer, I have found a love for the story called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of the stories I have come to like because it is one of the books where you have to piece it together yourself, it is your typical love story, and it is very suspenseful.

Research Paper of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Legend of Sleepy Hollow focuses on the main character Ichabod Crane. Ichabod Crane is a gentleman who comes to a small town called Sleepy Hollow to teach the adolescents. Ichabod would stay with his student's homes on rotation due to the small amount income. During his stay with his student's homes, he learned the ghost stories from their town which best known is the headless horseman.

The Mirror Image During the depression, the town of Maycomb, AL is old and run-down; this mirrors the characters as they passively travel through the days. The first two chapters of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are very uninteresting, and do not contain much action. The first chapter is used to introduce the town and characters. The narrator, “Scout” Finch, is arguing with her older brother, Jem. They are debating who is to blame for the breaking of Jem’s arm.

• “Girl One: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Girl Two: Beware, beware the Headless Horseman.

Before today I had never read “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” but I had heard of the headless horseman, because he was often referenced in Halloween cartoon episodes, for this reason I always assumed that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was a horror story, but when I was looking up information about the story, before reading it, I found that some websites classified it under the humor genre. I found this interesting, because I would not classify the story as either a horror or humorous story, although Ichabod Crane was an interesting looking character, described as being “tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs … feet that might have served for shovels… a small head, which was flat at top, with huge ears, large green

The narration in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow functions as a way to give authority to the women of Tarry Town. This power of feminine is elicit by Washington Irving who gives respect and superiority to women indirectly, but yet evidently through third person narration. Furthermore through Katrina he parallels the power of Tarry Town’s women by illustrating their agency to beget the downfall of Ichabod.

Sleepy Hollow illustrates characteristics of Puritanism through the representation of Puritan values on God being active in all aspects of life and harsh punishments. One value that is highly emphasized in Puritan literature is God being active in all aspects of life. The importance of God in Sleepy Hollow is clearly shown through the town’s church. The town of Sleepy Hollow is small and dark, yet the church is grand, bright, and white. By building the church in this way, the people of Sleepy Hollow are showing how important of a role God plays in their community. In Puritan communities, the church plays a huge role in everyday life. The church was almost always the tallest building in the town and was built in the center of town. Puritans

My thoughts on this house are very different from Sam I think it is a good idea to have a town of people and stores I like that.But not all people like that including Sam he wants to be loner by himself or with his family but if his family doesn't give in he’s gone.And Sam wants to persuade his parents to get a better home than a