Sleepy Hollow

As discussed in class, gothic stories are a combination of horror and romanticism. In the novel Sleepy Hollow, several elements of the Gothic genre are displayed. These elements include supernatural events that are similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The lack of class structure, history, and continuity in America is Tim Burton’s Sleepy is a different aspects of Irving’s original story that offers the European contrast, the film fundamentally relies on isolation, cultural differences, and ghost…

Sleepy Hollow is a cold, foggy, place that barely anyone visits. It is where the legend of the Headless Horseman began. They say that the Headless Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who got his head shot off by a cannonball in the Civil War, and has been searching for his head on the path of the Sleepy Hollow bridge ever since. Brom Van Brunt is a very muscular, charismatic man who lives in Sleepy Hollow. He has a crush on a young woman named Katrina, who is extensively the most…

make the decision of what to leave out and what to include. After analyzing the movie adaptations of, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “Rappaccini's Daughter,” and Katherine Anne Porter’s, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” the viewer can find several bits of information the creators left in from the book. However, on some occasions,…

In the middle of upstate New York lays a town called Sleepy Hollow. It has dark and foggy nights, perfect for spirits to linger. The Headless Horseman, the spirit that haunts Sleepy Hollow is waiting; waiting for a man named Ichabod Crane. Crane has done nothing wrong to the horseman, in fact he is frightened of him; but the horseman likes to kill for revenge. Not revenge on Ichabod but revenge on the town that killed the horseman. Sadly Ichabod is in that town and finds himself at the wrong…

Burton’s most common film Sleepy Hollow is generally recognized for the way Burton displays the male and female characters. Burton displays that female and male characters have the same similarities. Traditionally, male characters may be recognized as having to be the strong hero, and females are supposed to be weak and the damsel in distress. However, in Sleepy Hollow, the main character Ichabod Crane is described as a masculine man that also has a feminine side to him. For example, Ichabod is…

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by: Chris Grimly and Washington Irving How often do you read a short story for enjoyment anymore? You may be asking yourself that question, and the truth is, as a teenager, you don’t. So why did I read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow? That’s a good question, there are many reasons someone would read this story. One reason could be that your 9th mod Honors English teacher told you to read it and write a 2 page reader response about it. However, I am going to tell you…

Mitchell, Georgia has a population of about 250; five being my family. I have lived in Mitchell for my whole life. Love floods the atmosphere with every step on Main Street. From trick-or-treating, to yard sales, to the annual Mitchell Spring Fest, the city houses countless family traditions. The tattered, elderly buildings and what seems to be ancient railroad tracks tell their own stories and prove the city has a heart of its own. With a blink, Mitchell would be missed entirely, but within the…

America. It is one out of few stories by Irving that actually takes place in America. In the town of Sleepy Hollow, the people are described as soporific humans, not really questioning much. It is as if they are under a spell, according to the narrator in the book. The first couple of paragraphs in the book provide detail about a mist. This mist is supposedly the reason why the people are sleepy; therefore making it the spell-caster you could say. The town’s infectious sleepiness grasps the…

According to Haviland, “Verbal arts generally transmit and preserve a culture’s customs and values” (341). Throughout the United States, the story of the Headless Horseman, a verbal story described in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is well-known in American folklore. It is a scary story that many children tell around the campfire in an attempt to scare one another, saying that if someone is not careful, the Headless Horseman will come for them. However, many Americans do not realize that this…

not nearly as entrenched in nature as the inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are; Brom, for example, is often compared to animals throughout the story, which portrays him in a much more favorable light than Ichabod is presented in. The reader can assume that the town of Sleepy Hollow represents America as it once was, a land where Dutch farmers could live richly off of the land but also a daunting and enigmatic place. The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are honest, hardworking people, and it is Ichabod…