Ichabod Crane

Ichabod Crane’s adventure related in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow demonstrates where someone’s unchecked and undesirable personality traits can lead him. Washington Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in 1820. The story describes how Ichabod Crane persistently frightened himself by supposing he saw and heard supernatural beings. When Crane competed with Brom Bones for a lady’s love, Bones took advantage of Ichabod Crane’s character flaws scaring him out of town by impersonating the dreaded

chopping off someone else's head. This head will become my own. I will be looking for one head that I really want he goes by the name Ichabod Crane. I will do anything to get this head. I will slice anybody's head off if they don’t tell me where Ichabod Crane is. If they don’t tell me it will be the last time they will live. This will be the last time Ichabod Crane will see anybody. I was riding through the Sleepy Hollow woods when the next thing I see is this man by himself. So I rode up next to

His rich language describes Sleepy Hollow and Ichabod Crane’s time spent there with lavish detail of the scenery and even the food.Ironically, the end and explanation of the Headless Horseman is different in the two sources. In the story, with Crane hungry for the supernatural, Irving implies with his ending that Brom Bones was the Horseman and that what happened could have a reality-based explanation. In the movie, where Johnny Depp’s Ichabod Crane adamantly rejects any supernatural ideas, Tim Burton

many years. Then along came Hollywood and decided that Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” needed something more. Hollywood needed a more exciting main character in Ichabod Crane and story line to appeal to the twentieth century. Washington Irving had to write in a way that the reader could visualize Ichabod Crane and how utterly terrified he was of everything, whereas, Hollywood could use its own Jonny Depp to deliver a wonderful performance. Hollywood’s image for Sleepy Hollow needed

Ichabod Crane is not only a dynamic all-around character, but he is one of the main characters in the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. The story is somewhat of a dramatic love story set in a creepy town in New York in the 1800’s. Ichabod Crane and Abraham Brom VanBrunt (Brom Bones) were in competition for the same girl (Katrina). Of course, this girl happens to be the daughter of the richest guy in town and she is’ pretty good looking. Ichabod thought if he would hit on her

fence. Ichabod, whose fears increased with the delay, jerked the reins on the other side, and kicked lustily with the contrary foot: it was all in vain; his steed

most cases, the protagonist of a story is the hero, but this is not true in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. Set in Sleepy Hollow, the story chronicles schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane’s, time and sudden disappearance from the “haunted” town.

and goblins, they should not go to Sleepy Hollow! In the passage “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, there are two characters named Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane. These men are very different from each other, though Ichabod and Brom think similar about some things. These are some characteristics of Ichabod. Ichabod move from town to town teaching children, and he also taught singing. The kids whom he taught often laughed at his tall, lanky body with small shoulders, long arms,

The characterization of Ichabod Crane in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” written by Washington Irving is used to further the story and without some of his major characteristics the ending of the story would not have been possible. His aggressive nature, his inflated ego, his gullibility, and his tendency towards misogyny are what make the story possible. The first trait of Ichabod that influences the story is how aggressive he is. There are three moments in the story where his anger is seen through

Ichabod Crane, the main character in Washington Irving’s short story entitled, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, shows that he is an extremely awkward individual throughout the story. Ichabod established his stiffness when he has dinner with Mr. Van Ripper. He is debating going to a party because a certain person, Brom Bones, will be attending. The author adds, “Katrina and her father are having a party tonight. Should I attend?...Well, Brom Bones will be there. He said if he caught me near Katrina