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In his evaluation of Little Red Riding Hood, Bill Delaney states, “In analyzing a story . . . it is often the most incongruous element that can be the most revealing.” To Delaney, the most revealing element in Little Red Riding Hood is the protagonist’s scarlet cloak. Delaney wonders how a peasant girl could own such a luxurious item. First, he speculates that a “Lady Bountiful” gave her the cloak, which had belonged to her daughter. Later, however, Delaney suggests that the cloak is merely symbolic

about. Washington Irving uses several similarities in his stories “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle.” One similarity we see in Washington Irving’s stories is a similarity in setting. In both stories he speaks about mountainous areas. In the Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving states “…on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge into a high ridge…” and in Rip van winkle he states “Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains

Rip Van Winkle tells the story of a man who, on a trek into the Kaatskill mountains, mysteriously sleeps away twenty years of his life during the Revolutionary War. When he returns home, he finds that things have dramatically changed; King George no longer has control over the colonies, and many of his friends have either died or left town. At this point, the story reaches its climax, where Van Winkle realizes that his life may be forever changed. To this point, Rip Van Winkle has had only

In 1819 one of the most influential folk tales in American literature was “Rip Van Wrinkle” published by Washington Irving. This folk tale intertwines fantasy with reality and captures what it is like waking up in an anomalous yet familiar place. The main themes of Rip Van Wrinkle is Rip’s laziness, Dame’s henpecking, and the difference between Pre-Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary times. This American Mythology follows a slothful man who desires not to be bothered by his “shrewish” wife and the

For the latter part of the last two centuries, generations of people around the world have read or heard of the tale of the man who slept for two decades known as “Rip Van Winkle”. This short story was originally published in a book called “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” by American author Washington Irving under the pseudonym “Geoffrey Crayon. Irving used effective writing to show the reader every detail needed to understand where and what is going on especially during the transitioning

Rip Van Winkle: Time Travel from the Past Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving is a story about a man, and a bizarre adventure through time to the near future during the American Revolution. Van Winkle is a dutch-american settler living in the New York Catskills before the American Revolt. Within the village, Van Winkle is exceptionally appreciated as a valued member of the society, as that plays into the genre. The story takes an unexpected turn when Van Winkle is fast-travelled through time, to

Rip Van Winkle is a man that does good for others, but can’t make a profit for himself. In the book “Rip Van Winkle” by Irving the setting is a Dutch Village in the mountains, during the Revolutionary war. Rip is married to a nagging wife, and has a child named Judith. Rip was unhappy with his life especially his wife. “Times grew worse and worse with Rip as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant

life is a huge part of America’s identity, and various texts from the late 1700s and 1800s showcase this. The idea of safety and protection in America is portrayed though symbolism in the short story titled Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, also known as Diedrich Knickerbocker. In the text, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years, only to realize that he has woken up in a newly independent America. He returns to an inn he used to spend his time at before he falls asleep. The narrator describes what

In three stories written by, Washington Irving, they all portray him into a man of misogyny. In the story, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, disappearing never to return a man’s wife takes all their belonging of worthiness. In the story, “Rip Van Winkle”, a man tired of his wife is nagging, wanders off into the woods, vanishing for twenty years. In the story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, a man that goes by the name Broom Bones, brainwashed by womanly charm receives a rude awakening when the woman's he

similar truth. Neither Hawthorne nor Irving are wholly able to separate the concept of American identity from the country’s history and past, as although America is a new county, its origin lies in its Puritan and English heritage; however, in his story “Rip Van Winkle” Irving only focuses on the muddled reality of a shaky and underdeveloped American identity whereas in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne portrays an unique American identity that has begun to grow from the past while still being inseparable from