Essays on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

America's "Cinderella"

The stories that elicit the theme of “from rags to riches” have become like American creed from early as 1860s. Millions of these stories have been produced and sold worldwide. They have given hope to the poor boy that they can be a president, or a poor girl can become a president wife. Authors such as Horatio Alger, Luck nickel and Pluck, have perfected this theme in their children fiction stories from the early age. Therefore, the Cinderella story is not strange to this believe (Yolen, 2001). However, the Cinderella story which has been in existence for more than thousand years, ...

Introduction:

The tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight starts at a New Years Eve Feast at King Arthur’s court. The lavish feast is interrupted when the Green Knight arrives and issues challenge to King Arthur and any member of his Court to strike him with his own axe, on the condition that the challenger find him in exactly one year to receive a blow in return. When no one, including Arthur takes him up on this so he mocks them. In response to his taunts, King Arthur steps up and starts to take the axe. Sir Gawain jumps in. ...

Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Introduction

The legend of Sleepy Hollow is a fictitious short story by Washington Irving. This story tells of the disappearance of Ichabod Crane who is the main character in the story. Ichabod Crane was a Connecticut native who came to Sleepy Hollow as a teacher. It is a story about two men, Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt who both desired the same woman named Katrina Van Tassel. They were both competing for Katrina’s affection and hand in marriage. Katrina was the only daughter of a substantial wealthy farmer named Baltus Van Tassel. The movie Sleepy Hollow is a Hollywood movie by Tim Burton ...