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The story “Rip Van Winkle” holds tons of American Romanticism elements as if it’s a chest for them. To the naked eye, it might be difficult to see. With the naked eye and some close reading though, it’s lesser of a problem. This story elaborates the elements with the introduction of Rip Van Winkle, and a piece of his life. From his pain of a wife and companion as a dog, to the drink with the gnomes that induced him into a deep-sleep, it will reveal plenty of elements that correlate well with each

Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving created a pseudo historian for the purpose of bettering his own work and to entertain his readers. In 1809 Irving wrote "A History of New York" through a persona known as Diedrich Knickerbocker. This was Knickerbocker's first appearance in Irving's work, but it sure wouldn't be his last. Although he was not real, Knickerbocker was a historian that seemed to be in love with the people and landscape of the northeast, particularly New York. Even though Irving

Washington Irving describes the nature in a quote by stating, “Whoever has a voyage up the Hudson, must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.” (IRVING 471) Which means the story takes place in the Catskill Mountains (a range in southern eastern New York) I’m assuming there home is in the mountains as well. They describe more

through many years of popularity in American literature. This narrative is eloquently written by Washington Irving, a prolific nineteenth century American writer. The Author sets the story in a village near the Hudson River, along the banks of the Catskill Mountains where Great Britain once held reigns. Irving presents the reader with a story that effectively delivers an abundance of connotations representing the era of its origin. Through the use of characterization, imagery and symbolism, the reader

From the postscript, readers know that the narrative is a synthesis of German folklore and Indian legends. Irving explicitly demonstrates knowledge of the Trickster figure by citing the “Manitou or Spirit…who kept about the wildest recesses of the Catskill Mountains, and took a

Rip Van Winkle is about a man who’s in the time period of the 1800’s and falls asleep for many years just to walk up with no one that he knew still alive although the entire town remembers what happened to him. It features the paranormal and describes the men (ghosts) who had let him drink their whiskey which made him pass out describing one of them as incredibly tall. Rip Van Winkle is a great novel that is filled with remarkable, strange, and exaggerated characters, set in the past, and feature

being set in the past in a beautiful setting, having strange or exaggerated characters, and featuring mysterious events with consequences. Rip Van Winkle is set in the past with an interesting setting. Being set in the late eighteenth century in the Catskill Mountains, Irving uses imagery to visualize vivid colors and pictures. Irving describes that the sunsets “will glow and light up like a crown of glory,” which provides a majestic image of the sun (p. 62). It Is also described that the mountains are

Have you ever wondered why fairy tales are always in vogue, even with their gory violence, shallow characters and unbelievable storylines? Look closely at them, you can find some sort of wisdom hidden underneath all that magic and drama. So don't fret when your child goes gaga over a perfect princess or takes after a naughty troll. Just help your child decipher the hidden values from such tales. These tales do not have any grey areas - the demarcation between right and wrong is crystal clear, so

‘Rip Rip Woodchip’ was written by Australian country music and folk singer-song writer John Williamson in 1989. John was born in 1945 and has released over 40 albums, as well as videos, DVD’s and lyric books. He has won over 30 awards. Rip Rip Woodchip is a protest song about deforestation and the negative impacts it has to our environment. Throughout the 1980s, Australians realised that logging was destroying our environment. Up until the 1950s, trees were cut down by hand and only the trees that

An Amazing Romantic Folktale Rip Van Winkle, a short story by Washington Irving, is a fascinating Romantic folktale. But what are the elements that categorize this as a Romantic story? There are actually many examples of Romanticism in this story. Three main examples of Romanticism are: the story values individualism, there are strange and supernatural events, and nature plays a major role in the plot. The first reason that Rip Van Winkle is a Romantic story is that it celebrates individualism